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America First Audit

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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

contradicted
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
Lawyers representing the Trump company sent Panama's president a letter requesting influence in the private hotel dispute.Open cited record · 2 sourcesA 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.Open cited record · 1 source
Audit finding
contradicted

A private Trump business dispute was taken directly to a foreign head of state while Trump held office, conflicting with the announced separation of office and business even though the record does not show presidential direction or Panamanian intervention.

Causal strength: documented mechanism
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump Panama hotel-management business
Who paid
  • Government of Panama
  • Trump Ocean Club majority owners