API's Trump-Hotel Event and White House Meeting: Audit finding

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   The patronage and the official access happened in sequence. The record does not establish that one caused the other, or that a specific policy result followed the hotel spending.

   • 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
   • Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Special interests patronizing Trump properties also seek White House influenceAPI hotel event and White House meeting chronology; no-causation limitation
   • Trump White House Archives: Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with Energy Sector CEOsParticipant remarks identifying the American Petroleum Institute