Qatar Mission Charges at Trump World Tower
- 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 House report estimates base charges for mission-owned apartments; it separately records a fourth apartment purchase from a third party.Open cited record · 1 sourceThe House report concluded that its Mazars-derived records captured only two years of the presidency and four Trump businesses, so the full amount and final profit reconciliation remained unavailable.Open cited record · 2 sources
- Who gained
- Trump World Tower
- Trump World Tower
- Who paid
- United States public
- Qatari Permanent Mission to the United Nations
- Audit finding
- unresolved
The available records document foreign-government-linked spending at a business in which Trump retained a beneficial interest, but they do not establish a policy exchange or permit a complete reconciliation of payments, profit and Treasury donations.
Causal strength: not established