T-Mobile Hotel Spending During the Sprint Merger Review
- 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
- T-Mobile executives booked rooms at the Trump hotel immediately after the Sprint merger announcement and returned during the federal review period.Open cited record · 2 sourcesT-Mobile disclosed substantial hotel spending in response to congressional questions while saying employees chose the hotel for convenience and service.Open cited record · 1 source
- Who gained
- T-Mobile US
- Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
- Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
- Who paid
- United States wireless consumers
- T-Mobile US
- Audit finding
- unresolved
The hotel spending and merger-review overlap are documented, but the evidence does not establish that the patronage affected the government's decision.
Causal strength: temporal association