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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 Philippine Embassy's Stated Trump-Hotel Rationale

Actions
documentedThe Philippine embassy held its Independence Day reception at the Trump hotel in Washington.The Philippine StarU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic StaffRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
documentedThe embassy defended the venue as fitting and historic, and the ambassador's public explanation connected it to a good relationship with the president.The Philippine StarU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic StaffRead record · 2 sources
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
  • Embassy of the Philippines
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 foreign embassy intentionally selected a Trump-owned hotel in part because of its association with the president, directly engaging the office-to-business value mechanism identified in the ethics pledge.

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