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

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   The government paid protection costs tied to private business travel. The cited record does not establish a new deal, a project profit, or protection funds reaching 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