The Trump company is not banning private foreign deals
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The family ethics plan said Trump would not manage the Trump Organization while president.
Management-separation safeguardPolitical Spending at Trump Properties After Inauguration: Promised · Promised
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The plan retained management and foreign-government-payment safeguards while loosening the first-term restriction on new private foreign deals.
Plan terms and comparison with 2017Second-Term Trump Organization Ethics Plan: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The plan retained management and foreign-government-payment safeguards while loosening the first-term restriction on new private foreign deals.
Foreign-deal provisionsSecond-Term Trump Organization Ethics Plan: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The plan retained management and foreign-government-payment safeguards while loosening the first-term restriction on new private foreign deals.
Safeguards retained in the planSecond-Term Trump Organization Ethics Plan: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The plan said Trump would not manage the company, required an outside ethics adviser, and promised to donate profits from foreign-government patronage.
Safeguards retained in the planSecond-Term Trump Organization Ethics Plan: Counterevidence · Counterevidence
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The policy preserved a route for Trump Organization foreign licensing and management business during the presidency.
Foreign-deal provisionsSecond-Term Trump Organization Ethics Plan: Outcome · Outcome
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The second-term plan allowed deals with private companies abroad while barring direct transactions with foreign governments.
Plan terms and comparison with 2017Second-Term Trump Organization Ethics Plan: The record · The record
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The plan governed the family business owned by Trump.
Plan terms and comparison with 2017Second-Term Trump Organization Ethics Plan: The record · The record
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The second-term ethics plan said the Trump Organization would not enter direct new deals with foreign governments.
Foreign-government restrictionTrump International Golf Club Wadi Safar: Promised · Promised
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The family ethics plan permitted private foreign deals while saying Trump would not manage the company.
Foreign-deal safeguardsTrump International Hotel and Tower Dubai: Promised · Promised
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The family ethics plan permitted private foreign deals while saying Trump would not manage the company.
Plan termsTrump Plaza Jeddah Launch: Promised · Promised
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The family ethics plan permitted private foreign deals while saying Trump would not manage the business.
Plan termsTrump Tower Bucharest: Promised · Promised
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The family ethics plan permitted foreign private-company deals while saying Trump would not manage the business.
Plan termsTrump World Center Pune: Promised · Promised
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The family ethics plan said Trump would not manage the Trump Organization while in office.
Management-separation termsTrump's 2025 Public Financial Disclosure: Promised · Promised
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The family ethics plan said Trump would not manage the company and barred direct foreign-government deals while permitting private foreign transactions.
Ethics-plan safeguards and permissionsTrump's 2026 Foreign Licensing Disclosure: Promised · Promised
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The Trump Organization ethics plan said the company would not enter direct new deals with foreign governments.
Foreign-government restrictionTrump-Branded Qatar Golf and Villas Project: Promised · Promised
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The launch expanded Trump's foreign licensing business during his second term under the family's plan permitting private foreign deals; full fees and policy effects were not disclosed.
Plan termsTrump World Center Pune: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The project expanded a foreign licensing and management relationship during the second term; public sources did not disclose the full fee agreement or establish a policy exchange.
Foreign-deal safeguardsTrump International Hotel and Tower Dubai: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The project connected a Trump licensing relationship to a development on land involving a Qatari state company; public records did not disclose full fees or establish a policy exchange.
Foreign-government restrictionTrump-Branded Qatar Golf and Villas Project: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The filing documented that Trump retained broad financial interests while serving as president; disclosure ranges and gross-income fields do not equal net profit or cash received during a single calendar year.
Management-separation termsTrump's 2025 Public Financial Disclosure: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The project added a European foreign-brand licensing relationship under the second-term ethics plan; full contract economics and policy effects were not public.
Plan termsTrump Tower Bucharest: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The filings document continued transfers from political committees to Trump businesses during the presidency; gross disbursements do not establish net profit or illegality.
Management-separation safeguardPolitical Spending at Trump Properties After Inauguration: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The deal expanded Trump's Saudi licensing portfolio through a project in a state-backed master development; the company described its counterparty as private, and public records do not establish a policy exchange.
Foreign-government restrictionTrump International Golf Club Wadi Safar: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The launch expanded a continuing Saudi licensing relationship with residential, office, and hospitality components; public sources do not disclose full fees or establish a policy exchange.
Plan termsTrump Plaza Jeddah Launch: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The disclosure documents multiple foreign revenue channels retained during the presidency; it does not identify every ultimate payer or prove that any government action was exchanged for business benefit.
Ethics-plan safeguards and permissionsTrump's 2026 Foreign Licensing Disclosure: Audit finding · Cited analysis