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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.

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USFL fall-schedule strategy

Actions
documentedLeague owners approved the move and pursued antitrust litigation.U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit via Counsel StackAssociated PressRead record · 2 sources
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
documentedThe USFL suspended play before staging the planned fall season.Open cited record
  • United States Football League teams and employees
  • USFL investors
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedTrump advocated moving the USFL to a fall schedule as part of a strategy to compete with or force accommodation from the NFL.U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit via Counsel StackAssociated PressRead record · 2 sources

Promise contradicted

The move to fall never produced the operating league its proponents envisioned. Multiple owners and market conditions also shaped that result.

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