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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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The Official POTUS Account and the Nordstrom Dispute

Actions
documentedTrump posted criticism of Nordstrom from his personal account, and the official POTUS account retweeted it.TIMEU.S. Office of Government EthicsRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
reportedThe White House defended the message as a father's response to what the president viewed as an attack on his daughter.TIMERead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Ivanka Trump brand
Who paid or was affected
  • Nordstrom
  • United States public
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 contradicted

An official presidential communications channel amplified a message defending the president's daughter's private brand, against the announced separation of office and family-business communications.

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