The No-New-Foreign-Deals Pledge and the Scotland Expansion: Audit finding

Date: 2019-09-26
Entry type: audit-finding
Current status: Cited analysis

Entities and roles

America First Audit: The No-New-Foreign-Deals Pledge and the Scotland Expansionaudit case
Donald J. Trumpcomparison subject

Claims and evidence

analysisdocumented
The expansion continued a preexisting foreign property and therefore fell within the company's stated interpretation of its pledge; whether that interpretation matched the public meaning of no new foreign deals remained disputed.
- 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
- The Washington Post: The Trump brothers' claims that they no longer profit from foreign dealsScotland, Dominican Republic and Indonesia project analysis; existing-deal response
- U.S. Congress: Congressional Record, February 27, 2017Resolution text discussing the no-new-foreign-deals pledge and Aberdeen expansion