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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.

  1. Trump Company Lawyers Asked Panama's President to Intervene
  2. America First Action Spending at the Trump Hotel
  3. Saudi Government Payments at Two Trump Properties
  4. T-Mobile Hotel Spending During the Sprint Merger Review
  5. Chinese Financing Around the Trump-Branded Indonesia Project
  6. Philippine Embassy Independence Reception at the Trump Hotel
  7. The Philippine Embassy's Stated Trump-Hotel Rationale
  8. ACN Endorsement and Payment Disclosure
  9. Afghan Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  10. Albanian Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  11. Congolese Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  12. Cypriot Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records
  13. Hungarian Government-Linked Payments in the Mazars Records

The Philippine Embassy's Stated Trump-Hotel Rationale

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
The Philippine embassy held its Independence Day reception at the Trump hotel in Washington.Open cited record · 2 sourcesThe embassy defended the venue as fitting and historic, and the ambassador's public explanation connected it to a good relationship with the president.Open cited record · 2 sources
Who gained
  • Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
  • Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
Who paid
  • Embassy of the Philippines
Audit finding
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.

Causal strength: documented mechanism