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

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   The expansion continued a preexisting foreign property, so it fell inside the company's own reading of its pledge. Whether that reading matched the public meaning of no new foreign deals stayed 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