Chinese Financing Around the Trump-Branded Indonesia Project: Audit finding

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   The financing announcement created a documented foreign-state/conflict exposure around an existing Trump-branded project, but the cited sources do not establish that funds were paid to Trump, that Trump arranged the financing or that it caused U.S. policy.

   • 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. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: Menendez Requests Answers on Chinese Government Financing for MNC Lido CityLetter requesting records about the announced Chinese guarantee for the Indonesia project
   • The Washington Post: The Trump brothers' claims that they no longer profit from foreign dealsScotland, Dominican Republic and Indonesia project analysis; existing-deal response
   • ProPublica and USA Today: Trump's 10 Troubling Deals with Foreign Power-PlayersPhilippines, Indonesia, Panama and other project records with corporate documents