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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 Eric Trump's Uruguay 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
Eric Trump traveled to Uruguay in connection with a Trump-branded development while receiving Secret Service protection.Open cited record · 2 sourcesGAO included Uruguay in the three adult-child international trips for which it calculated federal protection costs.Open cited record · 1 source
Who gained
  • Trump Organization Uruguay licensing business
Who paid
  • United States taxpayers
  • United States taxpayers
Audit finding
unresolved

The trip created a documented public-cost/private-business-support pattern; it does not establish that the protection spending was paid to a Trump entity or produced a quantified profit.

Causal strength: documented mechanism