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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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Trump Company Lawyers Asked Panama's President to Intervene

Actions
documentedLawyers representing the Trump company sent Panama's president a letter requesting influence in the private hotel dispute.The Washington PostU.S. Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
documentedA Senate Foreign Relations Committee letter sought information about Trump's knowledge and any effect on U.S.-Panama policy; the cited record does not show the requested intervention occurred.U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump Panama hotel-management business
Who paid or was affected
  • Government of Panama
  • Trump Ocean Club majority owners
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

A private Trump business dispute was taken straight to a foreign head of state while Trump held office, against the announced separation of office and business. The record does not show presidential direction or Panamanian intervention.

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