Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip: Audit finding

Date: 2017-02-05
Entry type: audit-finding
Current status: Cited analysis

Entities and roles

America First Audit: Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Tripaudit case
Donald J. Trumpcomparison subject

Claims and evidence

analysisdocumented
The government bore protection costs connected to private business travel, but the cited record does not establish a new deal, a project profit or a payment of protection funds to the Trump business.
- Time: Read a Transcript of Donald Trump's Press Conference on Conflicts of InterestSheri Dillon remarks: no new foreign deals, limited information rights, compliance counsel, and donation of foreign-government hotel profits
- U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Oversight Committee Requests Documents on Trump Organization's Treatment of Foreign Government PaymentsBipartisan committee letter describing the January pledge and requesting implementation records
- U.S. Government Accountability Office: Presidential Travel: Secret Service and DOD Need to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to CongressPages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: CREW gets Trump family business Secret Service spending documentsBusiness-purpose travel examples and FOIA spending records
- The Washington Post: The Trump brothers' claims that they no longer profit from foreign dealsScotland, Dominican Republic and Indonesia project analysis; existing-deal response