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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.

Republican Attorneys General Association Reception at Mar-a-Lago

unresolved
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 Republican Attorneys General Association held a reception and dinner at Mar-a-Lago, and its disclosure identified spending at Mar-a-Lago and the Trump hotel in Washington during the reporting period.Open cited record · 3 sourcesThe disclosed event or expenditure routed organizational funds to the identified Trump property during the presidency.Open cited record · 3 sources
Who gained
  • Mar-a-Lago Club
  • Mar-a-Lago Club
Who paid
  • Republican Attorneys General Association
  • United States public
  • Republican Attorneys General Association
Audit finding
unresolved

The cited records document a political or interest-group payment path to a Trump business during his presidency; they do not establish an unlawful exchange or quantify Trump's personal net income from the event.

Causal strength: documented mechanism