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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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Second-Term Trump Organization Ethics Plan

Actions
documentedThe second-term plan allowed deals with private companies abroad while barring direct transactions with foreign governments.Associated PressQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & SullivanRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
reportedThe policy preserved a route for Trump Organization foreign licensing and management business during the presidency.Associated PressRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump Organization
Who paid or was affected
  • Foreign private counterparties
Promise and assessment
The promise
reportedTrump's first-term counsel said no new foreign deals would be made during that presidency.TimeRead record · 1 source

Promise unresolved

The plan kept management and foreign-government-payment safeguards while loosening the first-term restriction on new private foreign deals.

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