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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.

MacArthur Fundraiser at Trump Bedminster

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
A joint fundraising committee supporting Representative Tom MacArthur held a fundraiser at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster that Trump headlined, and filing-based reporting documented venue spending.Open cited record · 2 sourcesThe disclosed event or expenditure routed organizational funds to the identified Trump property during the presidency.Open cited record · 2 sources
Who gained
  • Trump National Golf Club Bedminster
  • Trump National Golf Club Bedminster
Who paid
  • MacArthur Victory Fund and affiliated political committees
  • United States public
  • MacArthur Victory Fund and affiliated political committees
Audit finding
unresolved

The cited records document a political or interest-group payment path to a Trump business during his presidency; they do not establish an unlawful exchange or quantify Trump's personal net income from the event.

Causal strength: documented mechanism