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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.

Said vs. done

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Management Transfer Without Divestment

Actions
documentedThe announced arrangement transferred management and limited information rights but kept the business interests in a trust for Trump's benefit.TimeU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic StaffRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
documentedFinancial disclosures and Mazars records reviewed by the House traced payments to businesses still owned through the trust structure.Roll CallU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic StaffRead record · 2 sources
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust and related holdings
  • Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust and related holdings
Who paid or was affected
  • United States public
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedAt 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.TimeU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformRead record · 2 sources

Promise partly kept

The arrangement separated day-to-day management but did not separate Trump from the financial performance of the business, leaving the public-private conflict mechanism in place.

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