The Foreign-Profit Identification Gap: The record

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   The company's internal policy said it would not require every guest to identify a foreign-government relationship and generally relied on self-identification.

   • 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. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic Staff: White House for Sale: How Princes, Prime Ministers, and Premiers Paid Off President TrumpMazars-derived payment ledgers; country and property sections; report pages 1-156
2. documented

   Trump announced the donation policy while retaining the beneficial interests whose receipts were subject to it.

   • 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 Accountability Democratic Staff: White House for Sale: How Princes, Prime Ministers, and Premiers Paid Off President TrumpMazars-derived payment ledgers; country and property sections; report pages 1-156