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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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  1. The Trump Network's Recession-Proof Marketing Claim
  2. Trump Model Management's Palmer Litigation
  3. The Trump-Branded Puerto Rico Golf Bankruptcy
  4. The Russian Money Test
  5. The Self-Funding Claim and the Campaign Finance Record
  6. Campaign Donor Money and Trump Tower Rent
  7. Trump University's Promise and Settlement
  8. Mar-a-Lago's Post-Election Membership Fee Increase
  9. Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip
  10. Management Transfer Without Divestment
  11. Inaugural Funds and the Trump Family's Private Reception
  12. The Inaugural Committee's Trump Hotel Contract
  13. The Inaugural Committee's WIS Media Contract

Trump University's Promise and Settlement

Actions
documentedThe parties reached a settlement on December 19, 2016 that allocated funds between class members and the New York action, with no defendant admitting wrongdoing.United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
documentedThe district court recorded that Trump University's successor paid the full $25 million into escrow, including $4 million distributed to the New York Attorney General, and approved the settlement.U.S. District Court for the Southern District of CaliforniaUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitRead record · 2 sources
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Eligible former Trump University students
  • New York Attorney General settlement fund
  • Court-approved settlement escrow
Who paid or was affected
  • Eligible former Trump University students
  • Trump University successor entity

Amounts and affected parties

  1. restitutionTrump University Settlement$25 million settlement fund
    Paid by / source
    Trump University successor entity
    Received by
    Court-approved settlement escrow
    realized · 2017-03-31 · observedRead source record
    Calculation detailsPopulation Trump University successor entity; Court-approved settlement escrow; Eligible former Trump University students; Eligible former Trump University students; New York Attorney General settlement fundPeriod 2016-12-19 to 2017-03-31Basis Use the district court's record of the full amount paid into escrow; do not add the $21 million and $4 million components again.Limits No admission of wrongdoing; this calculation records escrow funding, not the timing or amount of each later class-member distribution.
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedIn 2010, a Trump University advertisement promised learning from a Donald Trump hand-picked instructor using a systematic real-estate method.New York State Unified Court SystemRead record · 1 source

Promise unresolved

The marketing representations, the disputed student experience and the funded settlement are all documented. That settlement also stopped any merits judgment on the fraud allegations and carried no admission of wrongdoing.

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Cases

  1. Kraft family: Trump access, dropped charges, board power and corporate sanctions
  2. Trump clemency advocacy: six-figure fees, DOJ routing and investigationsEvent date
  3. Trump installs a donor's wife as his board remakes and shutters the Kennedy CenterEvent date

Evidence records

  1. 30-year mortgage rate: 7.4 % (2026-10-15)Event date
  2. 10-year Treasury yield: 5.1 % (2026-10-15)Event date
  3. 2-year Treasury yield: 4.77 % (2026-10-15)Event date