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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.

Secret Service Costs for the Trump Sons' UAE Business Trip

unresolved
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
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump traveled to the United Arab Emirates for the opening of a Trump-branded golf club with Secret Service protection.Open cited record · 2 sourcesGAO included the trip in its accounting of federal protection costs for three early-2017 international trips by Trump's adult children.Open cited record · 1 source
Who gained
  • Trump Organization UAE licensing business
Who paid
  • United States taxpayers
  • United States taxpayers
Audit finding
unresolved

Public protection spending supported a private Trump Organization business trip, but the record does not show that the Trump business received the government's protection expenditure as revenue.

Causal strength: documented mechanism