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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.

Trump Tower tax refund ruling

kept
Promised
The Trump-Equitable venture claimed statutory entitlement to the tax abatement.Open cited record · 1 source
The record
The venture litigated the city's denial through the New York courts.Open cited record · 2 sourcesThe appellate court ordered relief in favor of the venture.Open cited record · 1 source
Who gained
  • Trump-Equitable Fifth Avenue Company
Who paid
  • New York City
Audit finding
kept

The legal claim for abatement relief succeeded, providing counterevidence to treating every subsidy dispute as an adverse finding.

Causal strength: documented mechanism