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America First Audit

He said it in public. These are the documents on what happened next. Browse all records.

Why these cases

Trump sold “America First.” This record traces how public money, power, and risk moved toward family businesses, donors, favored firms, and foreign governments: and what workers, ranchers, retirees, patients, veterans, and small investors were left to absorb.

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Case 87 of 254
  1. Mar-a-Lago Members and Veterans Affairs Decision-Making
  2. Taxpayers at Trump Properties
  3. Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip
  4. The Official POTUS Account and the Nordstrom Dispute
  5. A White House Endorsement of Ivanka Trump's Products
  6. Secret Service Costs for the Trump Sons' UAE Business Trip
  7. Kuwait's 2017 National Day Payment at the Trump Hotel
  8. State Department Rooms at the Trump Vancouver Opening
  9. The Government Lease Beneath the Trump D.C. Hotel
  10. Trump Winery's 2017 Guest-Worker Applications
  11. The Paint Spot Judgment
  12. The State Department's Mar-a-Lago Web Page
  13. Republican Governors Association Summit at Trump Doral

Kuwait's 2017 National Day Payment at the Trump Hotel

Actions
documentedMazars records include a Kuwait embassy check for the 2017 National Day banquet after the embassy changed venues following the election.U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic StaffRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
documentedThe House report concluded that its Mazars-derived records captured only two years of the presidency and four Trump businesses, so the full amount and final profit reconciliation remained unavailable.Roll CallU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic StaffRead record · 2 sources
People and impacts
Who gained
Who paid or was affected
  • United States public
  • Embassy of Kuwait

Amounts and affected parties

  1. otherPayment or bounded estimate recorded in the House report$77,456
    Observed source
    Embassy of Kuwait
    Observed recipient
    Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
    observed · 2017-02-28 · observedRead source record
    Calculation detailsPopulation Embassy of Kuwait; Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.; United States publicPeriod 2017-02-01 to 2017-02-28Basis Use the payer-specific amount or bounded estimate stated in the House report; do not aggregate it with overlapping country or property totals.Limits The source set is incomplete, gross receipts are not profit, and one record may overlap a broader payer or property total.
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedAt Trump's January 2017 press conference, counsel for the Trump Organization said the arrangement would isolate him from the business, bar new foreign deals and donate foreign-government hotel profits to the Treasury.TimeU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformRead record · 2 sources

Promise unresolved

The available records document foreign-government-linked spending at a business in which Trump retained a beneficial interest, but they do not establish a policy exchange or permit a complete reconciliation of payments, profit and Treasury donations.

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  1. Kraft family: Trump access, dropped charges, board power and corporate sanctions
  2. Trump clemency advocacy: six-figure fees, DOJ routing and investigationsEvent date
  3. Trump installs a donor's wife as his board remakes and shutters the Kennedy CenterEvent date

Evidence records

  1. 30-year mortgage rate: 7.4 % (2026-10-15)Event date
  2. 10-year Treasury yield: 5.1 % (2026-10-15)Event date
  3. 2-year Treasury yield: 4.77 % (2026-10-15)Event date