Tiny Red HandsOpen ledger

America First Audit

About this audit and its evidence

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.

Reversal ledger

Oldest to latest by event date. Each stop is one dated case.

  1. Congolese Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  2. Cypriot Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  3. Hungarian Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  4. Indian Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  5. Kazakh Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  6. Kosovar Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  7. Latvian Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  8. Lebanese Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  9. Malaysian Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  10. Mongolian Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  11. Northern Cyprus-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  12. Thai Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  13. Turkish Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records

Latvian Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records

unresolved
Promised
At 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.Open cited record · 2 sources
The record
The House report aggregates identified payments from Latvia.Open cited record · 1 sourceThe 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.Open cited record · 2 sources
Who gained
  • Trump properties identified in Mazars records
  • Trump properties identified in Mazars records
Who paid
  • United States public
  • Government of Latvia and identified officials
Audit finding
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.

Causal strength: not established