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The fund was administered by the World Bank rather than by her, and Snopes' fact-check confirmed the pledge and found no evidence of a personal payment to her. Ethics observers noted at the time that foreign governments were funding an initiative associated with the president's daughter on a trip that also produced major arms agreements." }, { "date": "2018", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive gives no date for either item; the date is the year the ProPublica and WNYC series published the casino-licensing reporting.", "reported_by": "ProPublica and WNYC, and Newsweek", "sources": [ "https://features.propublica.org/trump-inc-podcast/sheldon-adelson-casino-magnate-trump-macau-and-japan/", "https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-japan-prime-minister-donor-casino-1162268", "https://notonepenny.org/sheldon-adelsons-las-vegas-sands-posts-record-q1-earnings-with-windfall-from-gop-tax-bill/" ], "what": "Reported that he raised Las Vegas Sands' bid for a Japanese casino license with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago in February 2017, and that Las Vegas Sands publicly estimated a $1.2 billion benefit from the 2017 tax law he signed." }, { "date": "2018-01-18", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The Washington Post and the Center for American Progress", "sources": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/trump-towers-buyers-in-india-offered-chance-to-meet-donald-trump-jr-raising-ethics-concerns/2018/01/18/53c6829c-fb8c-11e7-9b5d-bbf0da31214d_story.html", "https://globalnews.ca/news/4037399/donald-trump-jr-visit-to-india", "https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-conflicts-interest-india/" ], "what": "The Washington Post reported that buyers of Trump-branded flats in India were offered the chance to meet Donald Trump Jr. at a VIP event during his early 2018 trip for the launch of Trump Tower Pune, while his father was president. The Center for American Progress records an earlier episode in 2011 in which Donald Trump Jr. met the then chief minister of Maharashtra about the stalled Mumbai project; the chief minister later said the visitors were requesting a concession that could not be given." }, { "date": "2018-02-26", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "NPR and The Hill", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/2018/02/26/588984309/trump-pays-treasury-undisclosed-sum-for-hotel-profits-from-foreign-governments", "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-democrats-new-report-proves-trump-used-his-dc-hotel-take" ], "what": "Reported that the Trump International Hotel in Washington occupied a federally owned building, the Old Post Office, under a General Services Administration lease whose terms bar a sitting federal official from benefiting from it, and that the agency allowed the arrangement to continue through his presidency." }, { "date": "2018-10-24", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The date is the NBC News report's. The provision itself was enacted in the December 2017 tax law.", "reported_by": "NBC News, ProPublica and Law & Crime", "sources": [ "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-kushner-lefrak-could-potentially-benefit-federal-opportunity-zones-n946821", "https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-one-trump-tax-cut-meant-to-help-the-poor-a-billionaire-ended-up-winning-big", "https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jared-kushner-cashes-in-on-investment-thanks-to-tax-breaks-he-and-ivanka-trump-lobbied-to-pass/" ], "what": "Reported that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pressed for the Opportunity Zone tax break written into the 2017 tax law, that Kushner held a stake in Cadre, a real-estate investment firm that launched Opportunity Zone funds, and that Ivanka Trump promoted the program from the White House." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The General Services Administration Office of Inspector General", "sources": [ "https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/JE19-002%20OIG%20EVALUATION%20REPORT-GSA's%20Management%20&%20Administration%20of%20OPO%20Building%20Lease_January%2016%202019_Redacted.pdf", "https://www.gsaig.gov/news/press-release-gsa-inspector-general-evaluation-old-post-office-building-lease-finds-agency", "https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/trump-hotel-gsa-inspector-general/index.html" ], "what": "The General Services Administration's own inspector general found that the agency's lawyers recognized in 2016 and 2017 that his business interest in the Old Post Office hotel lease raised questions under both emoluments clauses, but did not address them before a contracting officer certified in March 2017 that his company was in full compliance with the lease clause barring an elected federal official from sharing in its benefits." }, { "date": "2019-10-25", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive kept the scanned original from a Wayback Machine capture because the Senate subdomain that held it was retired.", "reported_by": "Senators Tammy Duckworth, Tom Udall, Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal", "sources": [ "https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/10/25/2019/duckworth-colleagues-request-information-on-trump-organizations-business-in-turkey", "https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.tomudall.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Letter%20to%20Trump%20Org.-%20Trump%20Towers%20Istanbul.pdf" ], "what": "Senators Tammy Duckworth, Tom Udall, Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal wrote to the Trump Organization asking for information about the Trump Towers Istanbul licensing arrangement and about any contacts between the company and the Erdogan government on United States policy toward Turkey. The letter followed his decision, announced days earlier, to withdraw American troops from northern Syria ahead of a Turkish operation there." }, { "date": "2020", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/181BAF52E298FD70852585B70027E054/$FILE/Trump,%20Donald%20J.%202020Annual%20278.pdf", "https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7012257-President-Donald-Trump-2020-financial-disclosure/" ], "what": "His 2020 federal financial disclosure reported at least $580 million in income, including $115,865,590 of revenue at Trump National Doral, $37,251,635 of Mar-a-Lago-related revenue and $19,752,500 of golf revenue at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster." }, { "date": "2020", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/181BAF52E298FD70852585B70027E054/$FILE/Trump,%20Donald%20J.%202020Annual%20278.pdf", "https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7012257-President-Donald-Trump-2020-financial-disclosure/" ], "what": "The same disclosure reported at least $315 million in liabilities, including $80 million to $175 million in mortgages and loans tied to entities connected to Deutsche Bank." }, { "date": "2020-02-07", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit", "sources": [ "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/19-5237/19-5237-2020-02-07.html", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blumenthal_v._Trump", "https://ctmirror.org/2020/10/13/supreme-court-rejects-blumenthal-appeal-in-trump-emoluments-case/" ], "what": "The D.C. Circuit held on February 7, 2020 that the members of Congress who sued lacked standing because they were not a majority of either chamber, and ordered Blumenthal v. Trump dismissed; the Supreme Court declined a further appeal in October 2020." }, { "date": "2020-09-22", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Forbes, CNN Money and the Foreign Policy Association", "sources": [ "https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/", "https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/28/news/ivanka-trump-china-trademarks/index.html", "https://fpa.org/trump-kushner-china-conflict-of-interest/", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/nepotism-and-conflicts-of-interest-jared-kushner-and-ivanka-trump/" ], "what": "Reported that China granted or fast-tracked at least 16 to 18 trademarks to companies linked to Ivanka Trump and to Trump-branded businesses between 2017 and 2020, including approvals in the days around meetings between Trump and Xi Jinping, while Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner served as senior White House advisers with roles touching trade and China policy." }, { "date": "2021-01-01", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive dates the entry 2021-01-01, the start of the last year the records cover, rather than to a publication date.", "reported_by": "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and House Oversight Democrats, reported by CBS News", "sources": [ "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-secret-service-spent-nearly-2-million-at-trump-properties/", "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-properties-secret-service-charges-well-above-government-rates-house-oversight-democrats", "https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/u-s-secret-service-spent-254k-at-trump-properties-in-first-five-months-of-presidency" ], "what": "Records obtained by subpoena and by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington showed the Secret Service spent roughly $1.4 million to $1.75 million at properties he owns during his first term protecting him, his family and visiting officials, including over $300,000 at Mar-a-Lago, and was billed above the government lodging rate on at least 40 occasions between January 2017 and September 2021. The true figure is likely nearer $2 million because the records are incomplete, and they do not cover other federal agencies." }, { "date": "2021-01-21", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The House Oversight Committee", "sources": [ "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/2022-06-02.CBM%20to%20Kushner-A%20Fin%20Management%20LLC%20re%20Saudi%20Arabia%20Conflicts.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_Partners" ], "what": "Jared Kushner incorporated the entity behind Affinity Partners on January 21, 2021, the day after the first administration ended, and launched the Miami private equity firm that July with about 20 employees. He is its sole owner, founder and chief executive. The House Oversight Committee's letter records that the firm is a private fund not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which exempts it from disclosure and anti-money-laundering rules that apply to public investment companies." }, { "date": "2021-01-25", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The Supreme Court of the United States, reported by SCOTUSblog", "sources": [ "https://clearinghouse.net/case/15957/", "https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/justices-vacate-rulings-on-trump-and-emoluments/", "https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/012521zor_3f14.pdf", "https://clearinghouse.net/case/15881/", "https://marylandmatters.org/2021/01/25/frosh-proud-as-supreme-court-ends-states-emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump/" ], "what": "CREW's suit was dismissed for lack of standing in December 2017 and revived by the Second Circuit in September 2019. When he left office the case became moot, and on January 25, 2021 the Supreme Court vacated the Second Circuit's judgment and ordered the case dismissed, which removed the appellate ruling from precedent. D.C. and Maryland v. Trump was dismissed as moot on the same order and formally closed on May 11, 2021. No court ruled on whether the payments breached the Constitution." }, { "date": "2021-02-01", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf", "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trumps-financial-disclosures-reveal-millions-income-guitars-bibles-wat-rcna212981" ], "what": "His merchandise licensing and his NFT and coin licensing run through two Palm Beach companies in which he holds the offices of manager, president, secretary and treasurer: CIC Ventures LLC, formed in February 2021, which licenses his name for watches, sneakers, fragrances, the Bible and a guitar; and CIC Digital LLC, formed in March 2022, which collects the licence fees for the NFTs and the coins. The assets and income of both route back to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust." }, { "date": "2021-03", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive's verification pass finds the substance accurate and the date imprecise: the group's own report gives no exact grant date, so early March 2021 is the archive's reading rather than the source's statement.", "reported_by": "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington", "sources": [ "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-properties-in-indonesia-received-special-tax-status/" ], "what": "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington documented that Indonesia granted special economic zone status to the Trump-branded Lido City resort in early March 2021, weeks after he left office, having first floated the designation in 2019. The status brought corporate and luxury-goods tax cuts and easier permitting, and Indonesia's own council projected the development could draw $2.4 billion of investment. The group also noted that the developer's daughter was appointed to the Indonesian cabinet in October 2019 with responsibilities touching tourism policy." }, { "date": "2021-06", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The same $2 billion investment and the overruled panel appear twice already on this record, from the 2024 cycle file and from the conflicts-of-interest topic. This entry is the one that carries the returns to investors and the fee arrangement.", "reported_by": "The New York Times, reported through Axios and Rolling Stone", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_Partners", "https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/jared-kushner-affinity-partners", "https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jared-kushner-congressional-investigation-saudi-arabia-1362257/amp" ], "what": "Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund invested $2 billion in Affinity Partners six months after Jared Kushner left his White House role. Reporting originating with The New York Times says the fund's own screening panel objected, citing the firm's inexperience, an excessive management fee, weak due diligence and the risk from his prior White House role, and that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally overruled the panel. By 2024 the fund had returned no profit to its investors, on the same reporting, which also says Saudi Arabia agreed to pay tens of millions in fees." }, { "date": "2022", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive gives no day; the year is the first year of tournaments at his courses.", "sources": [ "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/trump-growing-pro-golf-influence-174146836.html", "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-hosts-controversial-saudi-funded-golf-tournament-mulls-2024-bid-rcna37693", "https://www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-tour-saudi-pif-trump-deal-2025" ], "what": "Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund was the majority backer of LIV Golf, which since 2022 has held tournaments at courses he owns, including Trump National Bedminster and Trump National Doral. Bedminster is reported to have received about $800,000 for a 2022 event and about $950,000 for a 2023 one, and Doral was the largest single earner in his golf portfolio in 2025. The fund had put more than $5 billion into LIV Golf before stopping further investment in April 2025 on the same reporting." }, { "date": "2022-03-25", "kind": "holding", "notes": "Recorded as a holding that ended rather than as a reported conflict: the fact is the disposal of the asset and the agency approval it needed.", "sources": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/25/gsa-approves-trump-dc-hotel-sale/", "https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/politics/trump-washington-hotel-lease-sale/index.html", "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/03/25/trump-hotel-lease-washington-dc-approved-sale-cgi-waldorf-astoria/6621648255148", "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairwoman-maloney-issues-statement-after-trump-hotel-sale-is-completed-despite", "https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2022/05/lawmakers-want-know-more-about-trump-hotel-sale/366685/" ], "what": "The General Services Administration approved the assignment of the Old Post Office lease on March 25, 2022 as part of the sale of the Washington hotel business to CGI Merchant Group, with Hilton, in a deal valued at $375 million. The agency said its decision rested on the financial strength of the buyer rather than on the emoluments questions raised during his presidency. The sale closed and the building reopened in June 2022 under another name, so it is no longer a Trump property. The House Oversight chairwoman said on May 12, 2022 that the deal had closed while the committee's questions about the hotel's foreign-government patronage and the 2017 compliance determination were unanswered." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The House Oversight Committee, reported by CNBC and Axios", "sources": [ "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2022-06-02.CBM%20to%20Kushner-A%20Fin%20Management%20LLC%20re%20Saudi%20Arabia%20Conflicts.pdf", "https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/03/house-oversight-investigating-2b-saudi-investment-in-jared-kushners-firm.html", "https://www.axios.com/2022/06/03/house-jared-kushner-firm-saudi-investment-investigation" ], "what": "The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee wrote to Jared Kushner's firm asking for documents and information, citing his relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his advocacy for Saudi Arabia while in the White House, and asking whether his personal financial interests had improperly influenced United States foreign policy." }, { "date": "2022-10-07", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The Times of Israel and Responsible Statecraft", "sources": [ "https://www.timesofisrael.com/sheldon-adelson-offers-to-help-pay-for-jerusalem-embassy-report/", "https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/07/new-book-highlights-how-campaign-money-influences-us-foreign-policy/" ], "what": "Reported that Sheldon Adelson, his largest donor, offered to help pay for a United States embassy in Jerusalem and used a $20 million super PAC donation to press him on the question, and that he moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018." }, { "date": "2022-11", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass corroborates the project facts and could not independently verify the two disclosure figures in the session it ran.", "sources": [ "https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/property/2024/03/05/dar-global-reveals-trump-villas-design-for-muscat-resort-and-golf-course/", "https://www.trump.com/media/the-trump-organization-and-dar-global-unveil-trump-signature-villas-at-trump-international-oman", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dar-global-launches-trump-signature-villas-in-aida-oman-a-ground-breaking-project-featuring-luxury-villas-within-oman-s-elite-gated-community-and-premier-golf-destination-302080188.html", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/4EC9A8E6DD078F2985258CA9002C9377/$FILE/Trump,%20Donald%20J.%202025%20Annual%20278.pdf", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf" ], "what": "In November 2022 Dar Global and the Trump Organization agreed to develop Trump Signature Villas, a hotel and an eighteen-hole golf course inside the AIDA community in Muscat, Oman, a mixed-use development of 3.5 million square metres planned over ten years with a first phase targeted for 2027. The villa designs were shown in March 2024. His disclosures record DT Marks Oman income of $1,005,145 for 2024 and $949,642 for 2025." }, { "date": "2022-11-14", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The House Oversight Committee, reported by CNN", "sources": [ "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2022-11-14.CBM%20to%20Steidel%20Wall-NARA%20re%20Mazars%20Docs.pdf", "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/committee-releases-financial-records-showing-extensive-foreign-government", "https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/trump-hotel-spending-foreign-governments" ], "what": "Records obtained from the Trump Organization's accounting firm after a subpoena fight showed that Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and China spent more than $750,000 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, including at least $164,929 from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in 2017 and 2018 while they were lobbying against the blockade of Qatar, and more than $300,000 from Qatar later." }, { "date": "2022-12-15", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf", "https://www.coingecko.com/en/nft/trump-digital-trading-cards", "https://www.cryptoslam.io/trumpdigitaltradingcards" ], "what": "His digital trading-card business began on December 15, 2022 at $99 a card and grew to four series, the third of them built around his Fulton County booking photograph, totaling roughly 175,000 cards sold. Public Citizen's analysis of resale markets finds that buyers of the first, second and fourth series paid $12.3 million between them and that those holdings are now worth about $3 million, a fall of 76 percent; fewer than 500 people ever bought the third series. His own income from the licensing has been reported at at least $7.2 million to $7.9 million as of his August 2024 candidate disclosure." }, { "date": "2023-01-16", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Democracy for the Arab World Now, reported by Middle East Eye", "sources": [ "https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-rights-group-demands-probe-trumps-business-saudi-financed-golf-league" ], "what": "Democracy for the Arab World Now asked for a federal ethics inquiry, alleging that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which the group puts at about 93 percent of LIV Golf's ownership, effectively routed undisclosed payments to him through tournament fees paid to his resorts. Its executive director said the crown prince had been paying him unknown millions for two years through their corporate covers. That is the group's allegation and not a finding by any adjudicating body." }, { "date": "2023-02-15", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The House Oversight Committee's ranking member", "sources": [ "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/2023-02-15.%20JBR%20to%20Kushner%20re%20Saudi%20Arabia.fnl_.pdf", "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-urges-chairman-comer-to-subpoena-kushner-s-investment-firm" ], "what": "The Oversight Committee's ranking member wrote again on February 15, 2023 seeking full compliance with the committee's document requests about the Saudi investment, after the 2022 request had gone largely unanswered, and by August 2023 was publicly urging the chairman to subpoena the firm over continued non-cooperation." }, { "date": "2024", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive gives no day; the year is the calendar year the income figures cover.", "sources": [ "https://www.ms.now/news/trump-organization-foreign-deals-dubai-saudi-arabia", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/the-intensifying-threat-of-donald-trumps-emoluments/" ], "what": "Mar-a-Lago reported about $57 million of 2024 income and Trump National Doral about $110.4 million, the family's single largest income source. Both regularly host political, foreign and official visitors." }, { "date": "2024", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive gives no day for the Truthout and Popular Information reporting; the year is the one the $2 billion investment and the envoy role are dated to in the archive's summary.", "reported_by": "Truthout and Popular Information", "sources": [ "https://truthout.org/articles/house-judiciary-investigating-jared-kushners-investments-from-saudi-arabia/", "https://popular.info/p/jared-kushners-3-billion-conflict" ], "what": "Reported that his son-in-law Jared Kushner's firm Affinity Partners received a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in 2022, approved after the crown prince overruled fund staff objections, that the firm has continued to raise Gulf sovereign-fund money, and that Kushner also served as an unpaid special envoy shaping Middle East policy. The House Oversight and Judiciary committees are investigating." }, { "date": "2024", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive gives no day for the Times of Israel and JTA reporting on this point; the year is the cycle.", "reported_by": "The Times of Israel and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency", "sources": [ "https://www.timesofisrael.com/miriam-adelson-gives-100-million-to-trump-campaign-making-good-on-reported-pledge/", "https://www.jta.org/2024/10/16/united-states/miriam-adelson-donates-100m-to-trump-campaign-making-good-on-reported-promise" ], "what": "Reported that Miriam Adelson, who gave about $106 million to vehicles supporting him, and her late husband pressed him directly on pro-Israel positions including the Jerusalem embassy move and recognition of the Golan Heights, both of which began in his first term and were carried into his 2024 platform." }, { "date": "2024-01-04", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats, reported by CBS News", "sources": [ "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-democrats-new-report-proves-trump-used-his-dc-hotel-take", "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-foreign-payments-emoluments-clause-house-democrats/", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-likely-benefited-from-13-6-million-in-payments-from-foreign-governments-during-his-presidency/" ], "what": "Reported, from Trump Organization accounting-firm records, that at least $7.8 million reached Trump entities from about 20 foreign governments during his presidency, most of it at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington separately estimated the likely foreign-government-linked benefit at $13.6 million." }, { "date": "2024-01-04", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The same $7.8 million figure already appears once on this record, from the 2020 cycle file, citing CBS News. This entry is kept separately because it carries the report itself and the China breakdown, which that entry does not.", "reported_by": "House Oversight Committee Democrats, reported by American Oversight and NY1", "sources": [ "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-01-04.COA%20DEMS%20-%20Mazars%20Report.pdf", "https://americanoversight.org/new-congressional-report-trump-businesses-received-7-8-million-from-foreign-governments-during-his-presidency/", "https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/01/04/trump-china-saudi-arabia-hotels-trump-tower-report" ], "what": "A Democratic staff report of the House Oversight Committee compiled the same accounting records and concluded his businesses received at least $7.8 million from foreign governments and their agents during his presidency, with entities linked to the Chinese government accounting for more than $5.5 million of it across three properties. The report also found the Washington hotel lost money overall." }, { "date": "2024-02-17", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Surrender_High-Top", "https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-introduces-never-surrender-high-tops-priced-day-court-ruling", "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-launches-sneaker-line-rcna139334" ], "what": "He launched a gold, T-branded high-top sneaker on February 17, 2024 at a sneaker convention in Philadelphia, priced at $399 in a made-to-order run of 1,000 pairs that is reported to have sold out within hours. The line grew to other styles and later to colognes and perfumes sold through the same storefronts, licensed through 45Footwear LLC and CIC Ventures LLC." }, { "date": "2024-03-25", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/trump-djt-stock-sell-off-media.html", "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Media_%26_Technology_Group" ], "what": "Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, was formed in February 2021 and went public in March 2024 by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company. His revocable trust, of which his son Donald Trump Jr. is sole trustee, holds the largest single stake, reported at roughly 53 to 59 percent at various points and at 114,750,000 shares in September 2024. Public Citizen valued his shares at about $1.07 billion in August 2026; the share price has fallen from a high of $175 in October 2021, before the merger, to about $9.31." }, { "date": "2024-03-26", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-selling-60-bibles-god-bless-us-singer-lee-greenwood-rcna145189", "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-god-bless-the-usa-bibles-printed-in-china/", "https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/trump-bible-endorsement-profit/" ], "what": "He began promoting a $59.99 God Bless the USA Bible with the singer Lee Greenwood from about March 26, 2024, sold under a licence from CIC Ventures, with the copies reported to have been printed for about $3 each in Hangzhou, China. The reported royalty income has grown across filings: $300,000 in an October 2024 report, $1,306,035 for calendar year 2024 on the June 2025 disclosure, and a cumulative total of about $1,514,521 by mid-2026." }, { "date": "2024-04-26", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "PBS NewsHour", "sources": [ "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/serbia-passes-bill-enabling-jared-kushner-to-build-luxury-compound-despite-opposition", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_Belgrade" ], "what": "Affinity Partners had been in talks to develop the former Yugoslav military headquarters site in Belgrade, bombed by NATO in 1999, into a hotel and residential complex, with the Serbian government keeping ownership of the land and the power of approval. The project drew protests and led to charges against four Serbian government officials for abuse of power and forgery, and a spokesman for the firm later said it had withdrawn. It is a separate project from the Trump-branded tower in Belgrade." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Fortune, Axios and the Brennan Center for Justice", "sources": [ "https://fortune.com/2024/02/09/oil-and-gas-industries-support-trump-2024-campaign", "https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/trump-oil-industry-fossil-fuels-biden", "https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fossil-fuel-industry-donors-see-major-returns-trumps-policies" ], "what": "Reported that oil and gas donors including Harold Hamm, Timothy Dunn and Occidental Petroleum backed his campaign and inaugural committee, and that after the election he ended the pause on liquefied natural gas export approvals, sped drilling permits on public land and signed roughly $18 billion of oil and gas tax incentives in his 2025 tax legislation." }, { "date": "2024-07-01", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass confirms the deal and flags that it could not locate the Diriyah entity in the government filing it could reach. The 2025 announcements about Jeddah and Riyadh are also summarized in a separate entry on this record drawn from the corporate-structure topic; this entry is the one that carries the disclosure figures.", "sources": [ "https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/business/trump-tower-saudi-arabia/index.html", "https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-organisation-signs-brand-deal-luxury-tower-saudi-arabia", "https://www.trump.com/media/dar-global-strengthens-ongoing-relationship-with-the-trump-organization-by-announcing-second-collaboration-and-future-launch-of-trump-tower-jeddah", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/4EC9A8E6DD078F2985258CA9002C9377/$FILE/Trump,%20Donald%20J.%202025%20Annual%20278.pdf", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf" ], "what": "On July 1, 2024, four months before the election, the Trump Organization and Dar Global, the international arm of the Saudi-listed developer Dar Al Arkan, announced Trump Tower Jeddah, a 47-floor residential building on the Red Sea coast reported at $530 million. His disclosures record DT Marks KSA income of $15,882,352.94 for 2024 and $9,243,574.15 for 2025, and a separate entity covers a hotel-management deal in Diriyah near Riyadh." }, { "date": "2024-07-01", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Calcalist and Bloomberg", "sources": [ "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/8bfpzjpha", "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/jared-kushner-s-affinity-pares-stake-in-israel-s-phoenix-after-rally" ], "what": "Affinity Partners bought 4.95 percent of the Israeli financial services group Phoenix Holdings for 466 million shekels, about $152.3 million, in July 2024, then exercised an option in January 2025 for an identical further stake, taking it to about 9.87 percent for a combined 932 million shekels, about $304.6 million, and making it the largest shareholder. The fund collected about 230 million shekels, roughly $75.2 million, in dividends, and in late July 2026, after the share price had more than quadrupled, it sold part of the holding." }, { "date": "2024-07-15", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Bloomberg, reported by the Miami New Times and The Daily Beast", "sources": [ "https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-mar-a-lago-club-membership-cost-to-jump-to-1m-20839209/", "https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-significantly-hikes-fee-for-new-members-to-join-mar-a-lago-club/", "https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/01/us/trump-financial-disclosure-mar-a-lago-doral-income-invs" ], "what": "The manager of Mar-a-Lago told Bloomberg in July 2024 that the club's initiation fee for new members would rise from $700,000 to $1 million from October 2024, weeks before the election, and that four memberships were for sale. The fee had risen from about $200,000 in 2017." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/donald-trumps-2024-financial-disclosures/" ], "what": "His August 2024 candidate financial disclosure reported about 115 million shares of Trump Media and Technology Group, worth roughly $2.7 billion at that month's price of $23.57 a share, more than $12 million in licensing and royalty income, and more than $50 million in liabilities from the E. Jean Carroll judgments and the New York civil-fraud judgment." }, { "date": "2024-09-16", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Liberty_Financial", "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eric-trump-joins-world-liberty-145554807.html", "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf" ], "what": "World Liberty Financial launched publicly on September 16, 2024, about two months before the election, founded by two sons of his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and two other partners alongside members of his family. He is styled co-founder emeritus and chief crypto advocate; two of his sons hold Web3 ambassador titles and his youngest son, then 19, was given a decentralized-finance title of his own. His own disclosures and the venture's website record that he owns 70 percent of DT Marks DeFi LLC, which holds 38.25 percent of the equity and the rights to revenue other than token sales, plus an entitlement to 75 percent of the net proceeds of token sales." }, { "date": "2024-09-19", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/19/djt-trump-media-stock-lockup.html", "https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/13/trump-media-djt-not-selling-stock-pops.html", "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-media-plunges-to-new-low-on-the-first-trading-day-big-stakeholders-can-sell-shares" ], "what": "The 180-day lock-up on Trump Media shares expired at the close on September 19, 2024, freeing him and other early holders, nearly 57 percent of the company and a stake then worth about $2 billion, to sell. He said publicly he had no intention of selling. Other insiders did sell: an investment vehicle tied to former Apprentice contestants sold more than 7 million shares, leaving it with 100." }, { "date": "2024-09-24", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Senator Ron Wyden, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, reported by The Guardian", "sources": [ "https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/chairman_wyden_to_affinity_partnerspdf.pdf", "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/25/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-senate-inquiry" ], "what": "The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee wrote that over about three years Affinity Partners collected roughly $157.5 million in management fees from an entirely foreign investor base, about $87 million of it paid directly by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, while returning no profit to its clients, and that by mid-2024 it had deployed only about $1.1 billion, roughly a third, of its $3 billion of committed capital. The fee agreements guarantee payment regardless of performance." }, { "date": "2024-09-24", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Senator Ron Wyden's Senate Finance Committee inquiry, reported by The Seattle Times", "sources": [ "https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/chairman_wyden_to_affinity_partnerspdf.pdf", "https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/kushners-firm-was-backed-by-investments-from-the-emirates-and-qatar/" ], "what": "The same Senate inquiry found that beyond the Saudi fund, Affinity Partners raised roughly $1 billion more from five other foreign investors, among them sovereign wealth entities tied to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and a Taiwanese businessman, at a 2 percent annual management fee against the 1.25 percent charged to the Saudi fund, and that a sixth investor was not identified to Senate staff. In 2024 the firm took a further $1.5 billion from an Abu Dhabi investor and Qatar's sovereign fund." }, { "date": "2024-09-26", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/26/donald-trump-launches-new-business-venture-during-/", "https://www.nbcbayarea.com/decision-2024/trump-watches-diamonds-campaign/3664304/", "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trumps-financial-disclosures-reveal-millions-income-guitars-bibles-wat-rcna212981" ], "what": "He launched a watch line in September 2024 under licence to The Best Watches on Earth LLC, including three 18-carat gold models topped by a $100,000 version with 122 diamonds on the bezel, and a lower-priced model at $499. His disclosure covering calendar year 2024 reports $2.8 million of royalty income from the watches." }, { "date": "2024-11", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive states in terms that the outlets it reviewed document no exchange of policy for these deals, and that the entry records a business expansion running alongside warmer relations between the two governments. It is recorded here as a holding for that reason rather than as a reported conflict.", "sources": [ "https://www.business-standard.com/industry/news/how-the-trump-organization-expanded-its-real-estate-presence-in-india-125101700303_1.html", "https://ddnews.gov.in/en/trump-juniors-to-visit-india-in-early-2025-for-launch-of-trump-tower-projects/" ], "what": "Tribeca Developers, the Trump Organization's licensed partner in India, announced plans in late 2024 and 2025 for further Trump-branded towers in Mumbai, Pune, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Noida, taking the licensed portfolio to roughly 11 million square feet across six cities on a reported investment of 6,000 to 7,000 crore rupees, about $700 million to $840 million. Two of his sons travelled to India in early 2025 for project launches." }, { "date": "2024-11-19", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "MSNBC, Insurance Journal and Fortune", "sources": [ "https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/elon-musk-tesla-self-driving-car-crashes-reporting-rule-transportation-rcna203583", "https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2024/11/19/801782.htm", "https://fortune.com/2024/11/17/trump-self-driving-cars-rules-tesla-robotaxi-elon-musk-cybercab-ai-nhtsa" ], "what": "Reported that after Elon Musk gave about $277 million through America PAC, the Transportation Department moved to rescind a rule requiring automakers to report crash data for advanced driver-assist and self-driving vehicles, a change Musk had publicly pushed for and which bears on Tesla's robotaxi plans." }, { "date": "2024-12-10", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://fortune.com/2024/12/10/donald-trump-fragrance-line-fight", "https://wwd.com/pop-culture/new-fashion-releases/donald-trump-fragrance-victory-45-47-1237964358/", "https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5378452-trump-launches-victory-fragrances/", "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trumps-financial-disclosures-reveal-millions-income-guitars-bibles-wat-rcna212981" ], "what": "His fragrance line began with a $199 cologne around December 2024, followed by scents at $249 for the women's eau de parfum, packaged with a figurine, tied to the January 2025 inauguration. The products are licensed through 45Footwear LLC and CIC Ventures LLC and are marketed as not designed, manufactured or sold by him. With the sneakers, this royalty stream was reported at $2.5 million for calendar year 2024." }, { "date": "2024-12-19", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Media_%26_Technology_Group", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/donald-trumps-2024-financial-disclosures/" ], "what": "On December 19, 2024 he moved his roughly 114 to 115 million Trump Media shares, a majority stake, into a trust controlled by his son Donald Trump Jr. rather than a blind trust, remaining the beneficial owner." }, { "date": "2024-12-27", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this partially confirmed: the core facts check out against SEC EDGAR, but the gift was reported on a Form 4 filed December 19, 2024 and the Form 3 is the trust's own filing, which is a sourcing detail the summary got wrong. The dates above follow the primary records.", "sources": [ "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000147450624000292/0001474506-24-000292.txt", "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-transfers-djt-shares-revocable-trust-sec-filings-show-rcna184966", "https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/20/trump-transfers-all-his-djt-shares-to-his-revocable-trust-sec-filings-show.html" ], "what": "Securities filings record that on December 17, 2024 he gave his whole 114,750,000-share stake in Trump Media and Technology Group, then worth roughly $4 billion, to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust dated April 7, 2014. A Form 3 filed on December 27, 2024 names him as the trust's settlor and sole current beneficiary and his son Donald Trump Jr. as sole trustee with sole voting and investment power. The trust is revocable, so he can take the assets back at any time." }, { "date": "2025", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive gives no day; the year is the one its sources describe.", "reported_by": "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the American Enterprise Institute and ms.now", "sources": [ "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/the-intensifying-threat-of-donald-trumps-emoluments/", "https://www.aei.org/op-eds/trump-2-0-and-the-foreign-emoluments-clause/", "https://www.ms.now/news/trump-organization-foreign-deals-dubai-saudi-arabia" ], "what": "Reported that at least 19 Trump Organization golf courses, hotels and towers are under development or pending abroad, including a Qatari golf-resort project developed by a company owned by the Qatari government, that watchdogs say this breaches the company's own pledge to avoid new foreign-government deals, and that the business took in an estimated $45 million from foreign deals during the 2024 election year." }, { "date": "2025", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive gives no day; the year is the one the second-term structure took effect.", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr.", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000147450624000292/0001474506-24-000292.txt" ], "what": "His son Donald Trump Jr. holds two overlapping roles: sole trustee of the revocable trust, which gives him sole voting and investment power over the securities it holds including the Trump Media stake, and executive vice president of the operating business, which he shares with his brother Eric. In the first term the trustees were Donald Trump Jr. and the company's chief financial officer, with Eric Trump chairing an advisory board." }, { "date": "2025", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive gives no day; the year is the one the profiles describe.", "sources": [ "https://www.trump.com/leadership/eric-trump-biography", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Trump", "https://www.newsweek.com/eric-trump-role-trump-organization-explained-1840117" ], "what": "Eric Trump is executive vice president of the Trump Organization, based in Palm Beach, and the company's own biography and news profiles describe him as the family member most involved in day-to-day management, across acquisitions, financing, design, construction, branding, hospitality, golf and the newer crypto-linked ventures." }, { "date": "2025", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive states plainly that this is Public Citizen's own analysis and characterization and not a government finding. The archive gives no day; the year is the one the analysis is dated to.", "reported_by": "Public Citizen, reported by NPR", "sources": [ "https://www.citizen.org/article/president-trump-inc/", "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1249592912/president-trumps-conflicts-of-interest" ], "what": "Public Citizen's President Trump, Inc. analysis found that about three-quarters of his business entities are registered in Delaware, that his efforts to separate himself from the business during both presidencies have been little more than cosmetic, and that he created more new business entities on one day shortly after announcing his 2016 candidacy than on any other day in his history." }, { "date": "2025", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this partially confirmed: the purchase, the price and the course count hold against independent sources; some revenue figures rest on thinner sourcing. The archive gives no day; the year is the one the income covers.", "sources": [ "https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew-balaban/2026/07/01/donald-trumps-golf-empire-hauled-in-over-392-million-in-revenue-in-2025/", "https://www.discoversouthflorida.com/blog/inside-trumps-south-florida-portfolio-265m-in-revenue", "https://frontofficesports.com/trumps-golf-businesses-netted-nearly-395m-in-income-in-2025/" ], "what": "Trump National Doral, bought out of bankruptcy in 2012 for $150 million, generated about $121.8 million to $121.9 million of golf and hotel revenue in 2025, up from roughly $110 million the year before, making it his highest-earning property and about a third of his golf income. In January 2025 the Doral City Council gave final approval to a redevelopment of about $3 billion on 56.4 acres, 1,498 condominiums across four twenty-storey towers plus commercial space, leaving the Blue Monster course in place." }, { "date": "2025", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass confirms the fee and the rise, and notes that $700,000 to $1 million is a 42.9 percent increase rather than the about 40 percent its summary says. The archive gives no day; the year is the one the income covers.", "sources": [ "https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-mar-a-lago-club-membership-cost-to-jump-to-1m-20839209/", "https://nz.news.yahoo.com/trump-sees-massive-spike-mar-230747814.html", "https://www.discoversouthflorida.com/blog/inside-trumps-south-florida-portfolio-265m-in-revenue" ], "what": "Mar-a-Lago generated about $77.4 million to $77.5 million of income in 2025, up from about $50.1 million the year before. Its initiation fee is reported at about $1 million, up from $700,000, with annual dues of about $14,000 to $20,000, a dining minimum of about $2,000 and membership capped at 500. The club does not publish its prices; the fee figures come from news reporting." }, { "date": "2025", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive gives no day; the year is the one the company's own listing is dated to.", "sources": [ "https://www.trump.com/hotels", "https://www.trump.com/media/dar-global-and-the-trump-organization-announce-two-global-firsts-trump-international-hotel-maldives-and-the-worlds-first-tokenized-hotel-development-project", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarGlobal" ], "what": "The Trump Hotels brand lists properties and developments in Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas, New York, Turnberry and Aberdeen in Scotland, Doonbeg in Ireland, Charlottesville, Muscat in Oman, Dubai, Vietnam, the Maldives and Wadi Safar in Saudi Arabia. In November 2025 the company and the Dubai developer Dar Global announced a Trump International Hotel Maldives, which they describe as the first tokenized hotel development. The original Washington hotel is no longer part of the portfolio." }, { "date": "2025", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this partially confirmed: the partnerships and the countries are well documented, several of the specific figures less so. The archive gives no day; the year is the one the wave of announcements is dated to.", "sources": [ "https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/property/2026/09/03/where-is-trumps-property-empire-expanding-in-the-gulf/", "https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-organization-and-saudi-developer-unveil-10bn-projects", "https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2024/07/02/trump-strikes-deal-for-luxury-tower-in-jeddah-with-saudi-developer/142447", "https://www.yahoo.com/news/breaking-down-trump-organizations-qatar-013000049.html" ], "what": "Since 2024 and 2025 the Trump Organization has worked with Dar Global, the international arm of the Saudi-listed developer Dar Al Arkan, on Gulf projects: a Trump Tower in Jeddah reported at about $531 million, with a second tower planned for Riyadh; a Trump International Hotel and Tower in Dubai announced in May 2025; a golf resort and hotel of about $500 million in Muscat with Dar Global and the state-owned Omran; and a Trump-branded golf resort in Qatar reported at $5.5 billion, developed with Qatari Diar, part of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund." }, { "date": "2025-01", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Moneywise and Virginia Business", "sources": [ "https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/trump-flavored-vapes-fda-approval", "https://virginiabusiness.com/us-fda-loosens-vape-regulations-benefiting-tobacco-companies/" ], "what": "Reported that after about $10.1 million from Reynolds American and British American Tobacco in the 2024 cycle, the administration withdrew a proposed Food and Drug Administration ban on menthol cigarettes in January 2025, and that in May 2025, days after a further $5 million donation reported in filings, the agency authorized flavored vape products for the first time." }, { "date": "2025-01-01", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "A fuller entry than the one carried from the 2024 cycle file, which it does not replace: this one adds the assets under management, the share from foreign nationals and the committee investigation.", "reported_by": "House Judiciary Committee Democrats, and Truthout", "sources": [ "https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-opens-sweeping-investigation-into-us-special-envoy-for-peace-jared-kushner-s-foreign-entanglements-and-staggering-conflicts-of-interest", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_Partners", "https://truthout.org/articles/house-judiciary-investigating-jared-kushners-investments-from-saudi-arabia/" ], "what": "Jared Kushner launched Affinity Partners weeks after leaving his White House role in 2021 and secured a $2 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund over the objections of the fund's own staff. By 2025 and 2026 reporting put the firm's assets under management at about $6.16 billion, roughly 99 percent of it from foreign nationals, while Kushner returned to government as a special envoy handling Middle East diplomacy with the same governments. The House Judiciary Committee's ranking member opened an investigation." }, { "date": "2025-01-07", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this confirmed: every entity name, licensee and figure is an exact match against the two primary filings, which it fetched and extracted directly.", "reported_by": "Ethics groups and reporters cited in the research archive, from the two Office of Government Ethics filings", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/4EC9A8E6DD078F2985258CA9002C9377/$FILE/Trump,%20Donald%20J.%202025%20Annual%20278.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussain_Sajwani" ], "what": "His 2025 disclosure lists three United Arab Emirates licensing entities that were not on the previous year's filing: DT Marks Dubai DG, licensed to Dar Al Arkan Properties, reporting $10,361,458.68 against $5,000,000 the year before; DT Marks Abu Dhabi, licensed to DAMAC Sky View Real Estate, reporting $5,000,000; and DT Marks Al Raha Beach, licensed to DAMAC Properties Investment, also reporting $5,000,000. On January 7, 2025, DAMAC's Hussain Sajwani appeared with him at Mar-a-Lago to announce a pledged $20 billion DAMAC investment in United States data centers." }, { "date": "2025-01-16", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Public Citizen, CNBC, ABC News and CoinDesk", "sources": [ "https://www.citizen.org/article/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial-binance-iran-sanctions/", "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-alt5-sigma.html", "https://abcnews.com/Business/trump-linked-crypto-venture-world-liberty-trust-granted/story?id=135668756", "https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/09/14/trump-s-usd800-million-stake-into-world-liberty-financial-s-token-now-has-a-timeline-to-becoming-sellable" ], "what": "Reported that a Trump-family entity, DT Marks DEFI LLC, holds a large stake in the crypto venture World Liberty Financial, with his sons listed as co-founders; that four days before the January 20, 2025 inauguration an entity linked to the deputy ruler of Abu Dhabi bought a 49 percent stake for $187 million; that the venture has since obtained expanded bank-charter status; and that he pursued crypto-friendly federal policy over the same period, including a March 2025 executive order on a strategic bitcoin reserve." }, { "date": "2025-01-17", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Visual Capitalist, from the 2025 federal disclosure", "sources": [ "https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/trump-crypto-licensing-income-2024/" ], "what": "Reported that the $TRUMP meme coin, launched days before the 2025 inauguration, generated roughly $320 million in fees accruing largely to entities affiliated with him." }, { "date": "2025-01-17", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf", "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-launches-own-trump-210220258.html", "https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2025/creators-trump-meme-coin-made-350-million-dollars-3-weeks/", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf" ], "what": "The $TRUMP coin launched on January 17, 2025, three days before his second inauguration, marketed as the only official Trump meme coin. Two entities he controls hold 800 million of the 1 billion tokens, releasing over three years; only 200 million were sold publicly. Its market value briefly passed $27 billion within two days and the price peaked at $73.43 on January 19, 2025 before falling to as low as $1.37 by August 2026. His 2025 disclosure puts his income from trading and transaction fees on the coin at about $635 million, with his remaining holding worth roughly $271 million in August 2026." }, { "date": "2025-01-19", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://www.kucoin.com/news/articles/melania-launches-new-memecoin-following-the-trump-token-hype-and-success", "https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/tech/meme-coins-donald-melania-trump-intl-hnk", "https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/01/20/what-to-know-about-melania-trumps-new-meme-coin-as-market-cap-crosses-2-billion/" ], "what": "Melania Trump launched the $MELANIA coin on January 19, 2025, with a total supply of 1 billion and 250 million in initial circulation, and the price of $TRUMP fell. $MELANIA briefly passed a $5 billion market value and traded above $5. Ethics specialists and figures within the crypto industry itself pointed to the timing, days before an inauguration that promised crypto-friendly policy." }, { "date": "2025-01-20", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Truthout, E&E News and the Brennan Center for Justice", "sources": [ "https://truthout.org/articles/dakota-access-pipeline-company-is-top-fossil-fuel-donor-to-trumps-war-chest/", "https://www.eenews.net/articles/dakota-access-ceo-gives-10m-to-boost-trump/", "https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fossil-fuel-industry-donors-see-major-returns-trumps-policies" ], "what": "Reported that after Kelcy Warren's Energy Transfer gave about $12.5 million in the 2024 cycle, his January 20, 2025 executive order Unleashing American Energy directed agencies to speed pipeline permitting, that Energy Transfer's share price rose about 22 percent between Election Day and Inauguration Day, and that the company was cleared to extend a major pipeline project." }, { "date": "2025-02", "kind": "holding", "notes": "Recorded as a holding rather than a reported conflict: the fact is the regulatory status of a property he licenses, not an overlap anyone has reported between his business and his office. The archive's verification pass dates the order to about February 6, 2025.", "sources": [ "https://www.forbes.com/sites/yessarrosendar/2025/02/07/indonesia-halts-billionaires-project-with-trump-branded-golf-course-on-environmental-issues/", "https://www.fastcompany.com/91274687/indonesia-halting-3-billion-tourism-project-linked-trump-heres-why", "https://euronews.com/travel/2025/02/11/trump-backed-tourism-project-accused-of-draining-lake-in-precious-indonesian-forest-area" ], "what": "In February 2025 Indonesia's Environment Ministry ordered construction suspended at the Lido City project, reported at about $3 billion and including the Trump-branded golf, hotel and residential components, after finding signs that badly managed rainwater runoff was silting up a nearby lake in a protected forest. Human Rights Watch separately objected to reports that the Indonesian government had been asked to pay for a toll road giving access to the Trump-branded community." }, { "date": "2025-03-25", "kind": "income", "notes": "The $187 million purchase also appears once on this record from the 2024 cycle file, as a reported conflict. This entry is the one that carries the stablecoin's own revenue line and the overseas-holding estimate.", "sources": [ "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250325773694/en/World-Liberty-Financial-Plans-to-Launch-USD1-the-Institutional-Ready-Stablecoin", "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf" ], "what": "World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin launched in March 2025 and reached a market value of about $4.1 billion by August 2026, the fourth largest of its kind. His 2025 disclosure reports $199.2 million of revenue attributable to it. Public Citizen estimates at least 64 percent of it is held by overseas interests, largely through one exchange, and reports that four days before the January 2025 inauguration a firm backed by a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family bought a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, routing about $187 million to entities of his family, a stake that was not publicly disclosed for about a year." }, { "date": "2025-04-30", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, reported by Newsweek, Snopes and Spectrum News", "sources": [ "https://www.newsweek.com/new-trump-golf-course-55-billion-beachside-project-announced-qatar-2066482", "https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/05/16/qatar-trump-golf-course/", "https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/politics/2025/04/30/trump-organization-qatar-golf-foreign-business", "https://www.trump.com/media/qatari-diar-signs-strategic-agreement-with-dar-global-to-develop-trump-international-golf-club-and-trump-villas-a-beachside-ultra-luxury-community-within-simaisma-masterplan" ], "what": "On April 30, 2025 the Trump Organization announced its first foreign real-estate deal of the second term: an eighteen-hole golf club and Trump-branded villas inside the Simaisma development north of Doha, owned by Qatari Diar, a company of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, with Dar Global buying the golf-course land and building it. The project is reported at $5.5 billion. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said a president's decisions should be in the interest of the United States rather than his own accounts. The announcement came weeks before reports that he had accepted a Boeing 747-8 from Qatar's royal family." }, { "date": "2025-05", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley, and Forbes", "sources": [ "https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ewcvh_letter_to_trump_re_middle_east_trip_crypto_corruption.pdf", "https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2026/02/02/why-the-trump-uae-crypto-deal-made-no-financial-sense-for-the-emiratis/", "https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-trumps-500-million-uae-crypto-deal-trades-u-s-national-security-for-family-profit/" ], "what": "Separately from their letter to World Liberty Financial, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley wrote to him directly, saying the crypto arrangements struck around the May 2025 Gulf trip set his family's financial stake in the USD1 stablecoin against his conduct of foreign and trade policy toward the Gulf states. A Forbes analysis of February 2026 argued the Emirati investment made little independent financial sense for the investor." }, { "date": "2025-05-06", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive records that Forbes' full article text could not be retrieved because the site returned a block, so the entry rests on the headline and the indexed summary rather than a reading of the filing.", "reported_by": "Forbes", "sources": [ "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/05/06/trump-organization-admits-president-still-controls-his-business-in-new-filing/", "https://legalclarity.org/who-owns-the-trump-organization-and-who-controls-it/" ], "what": "Forbes reported in May 2025 that a filing associated with the Trump Organization amounted to an acknowledgment that he still controls the business during his second term, and described the trust arrangement as a cosmetic separation rather than an arm's-length divestment." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley, reported by The Block and CNBC", "sources": [ "https://www.theblock.co/post/352830/world-liberty-financials-usd1-binances-2-billion-investment-mgx-report", "https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-merkley-seek-world-liberty-financial-records-on-2-billion-trump-stablecoin-deal-involving-uae-firm-and-binance", "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/senator-probe-warren-trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial-usd1-wlfi-ties-north-korea-russia-iran.html" ], "what": "In May 2025 an Abu Dhabi state-backed investment firm used World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin to settle a $2 billion investment in the exchange Binance, taking a minority stake, which a World Liberty co-founder called a pivotal catalyst for the coin's growth. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley wrote demanding records of the arrangement, calling a stablecoin tied to a sitting president's financial interests an unprecedented conflict of interest. In November 2025 senators pressed for an inquiry into whether other token sales had ties to North Korea, Russia and Iran." }, { "date": "2025-05-19", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The acceptance of the aircraft itself is already a record entry on this page, from the conflicts-of-interest topic. This entry carries only what CNN added about who approached whom.", "reported_by": "CNN", "sources": [ "https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/politics/trump-adminstration-approached-qatar-jet", "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/05/21/Defense-Department-accepts-Qatar-jet-gift/6731747864004/", "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5406420/trump-accepts-qatar-plane-air-force-one" ], "what": "CNN reported that, contrary to the administration's account that Qatar had offered the Boeing 747-8 unprompted, United States officials had first approached Qatar about acquiring a plane. The Pentagon accepted the aircraft as an unconditional donation around May 21, 2025." }, { "date": "2025-05-21", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive's verification pass confirms the shape of the deal and notes that several figures differ between the cited sources and that the disclosure detail in its own summary is slightly overstated.", "reported_by": "Reuters and NPR, reported through the outlets in the research archive", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/2025/06/17/1254291430/vietnam-trump-organization-golf-resort-deal-trade-war", "https://www.forbes.com/sites/yessarrosendar/2025/05/22/trump-organization-enters-vietnam-with-15-billion-golf-resort-project-near-hanoi/", "https://gulfnews.com/business/property/eric-trump-kicks-off-15-billion-golf-course-luxury-resort-project-in-vietnam-1.500136522", "https://www.barchart.com/story/news/32437420/vietnam-approves-trump-organizations-1-5-billion-golf-real-estate-project" ], "what": "The Trump Organization and the Vietnamese developer Kinhbac City agreed a $1.5 billion golf, hotel and residential project on 990 hectares in Hung Yen province south of Hanoi, with two Trump-branded courses, a five-star hotel and housing for a planned 35,000 residents, targeted for completion in 2029. Vietnam's government approved the plans and Eric Trump attended the groundbreaking on May 21, 2025 with the Vietnamese prime minister. Reuters and NPR reported that the approval came while Vietnam was negotiating with his administration to avoid a threatened 46 percent tariff on its exports, and that Vietnam set aside some of its own procedures to speed the project." }, { "date": "2025-05-22", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The dinner also appears once on this record as a record entry, from the conflicts-of-interest topic. This entry is the one that carries the congressional letter, the $140 million figure and the White House's answer.", "reported_by": "Representatives Sean Casten and Adam Smith, reported by The Washington Post and NPR", "sources": [ "https://casten.house.gov/imo/media/doc/trump_memecoin_dinner_letter_final.pdf", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/trump-meme-coin-dinner/", "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5407411/white-house-denies-conflicts-of-interest-as-trump-joins-dinner-for-meme-coin-investors" ], "what": "A website tied to his family announced that the 220 largest holders of $TRUMP would be invited to a dinner with him at his golf club outside Washington on May 22, 2025, with the 25 largest buyers also given a reception and a White House tour. The attendees are reported to have spent more than $140 million between them to qualify, and the largest wallet was linked to the founder of Tron. Representatives Sean Casten and Adam Smith wrote asking the Justice Department to investigate possible bribery and emoluments breaches, and 35 House Democrats separately called for an inquiry. The White House said the assets sit in a trust run by his sons and denied any conflict." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this confirmed.", "sources": [ "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/27/3088703/0/en/Trump-Media-Announces-Approximately-2-5-Billion-Bitcoin-Treasury-Deal.html", "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/djt-trump-media-bitcoin.html", "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/07/21/3118713/0/en/Trump-Media-Announces-its-Purchases-for-Bitcoin-Treasury-Reach-2-Billion.html", "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf" ], "what": "On May 27, 2025 Trump Media announced about $2.5 billion of gross proceeds from a private placement with roughly 50 institutional investors, about $1.5 billion in stock and $1 billion in convertible notes, to build a bitcoin reserve; the share price fell 10 percent on the news. By July 21, 2025 the company said its bitcoin and related holdings had reached about $2 billion, roughly two-thirds of its liquid assets, held with two custodians. Public Citizen later put the paper loss on that position at $450 million as of August 2026." }, { "date": "2025-06-13", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf", "https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/trump-made-a-bundle-of-cash-selling-nfts-financial-filings-show.html", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf" ], "what": "His NFT licensing income, reported through CIC Digital LLC, has moved across successive federal filings: $4,866,832 on the August 2023 disclosure, $7,156,385 on the August 2024 one, and $1,157,490 on the June 2025 filing covering 2024. For 2025 it cannot be read separately, because that year's filing reports the entity's NFT income together with the $TRUMP coin proceeds under one line." }, { "date": "2025-06-13", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trumps-financial-disclosures-reveal-millions-income-guitars-bibles-wat-rcna212981", "https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/politics/financial-disclosure-trump-2025" ], "what": "His disclosure covering calendar year 2024, released in June 2025, reported $1,055,100 of royalty income from a branded guitar licensed through an agreement with LMA Productions, and $3,000,000 from a coffee-table book, alongside the sneaker and fragrance, watch, Bible and NFT figures reported the same day." }, { "date": "2025-06-14", "kind": "income", "sources": [ "https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/business/trump-income-crypto-licensing", "https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/trump-crypto-licensing-income-2024/", "https://www.tbsnews.net/infograph/numbers/trumps-financial-disclosures-2024-1205036" ], "what": "The federal financial disclosure released by the White House on June 13, 2025, covering calendar year 2024, reported minimum assets of at least $1.6 billion and more than $600 million in income from crypto ventures, golf and licensing fees. Both figures are legally required broad-range floors, not net-worth figures." }, { "date": "2025-08-08", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000114036125040977/ef20054981_10q.htm", "https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2025-earnings-1236477039/", "https://thedesk.net/2025/08/trump-media-q2-2025-earnings-report/" ], "what": "Trump Media's quarterly report for the three months to June 30, 2025 reported net sales of $883,300, up 5.5 percent on the year, against a net loss of $20.0 million, compared with a loss of $16.4 million a year earlier. About $15 million of the loss was legal expenses. The company ended the quarter with roughly $3.1 billion of total assets, including its bitcoin holdings." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this confirmed. It is a holding of his sons rather than of his own; it is recorded because the archive records it as part of the family's business since 2021 and because the section shows what has been reported about the family's financial interests.", "sources": [ "https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/05/12/trump-family-backed-american-bitcoin-to-go-public-via-merger-with-gryphon-digital", "https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/09/03/american-bitcoin-nasdaq-trading-eric-donald-trump-jr-hut-8/", "https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/01/american-bitcoin-president-donald-trump-hut-8-220-million/" ], "what": "American Bitcoin, formed when his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. merged their American Data Center with a mining unit backed by Hut 8, with the brothers holding 20 percent and Hut 8 80 percent, said in May 2025 it would go public by merging with a Nasdaq-listed miner. Eric Trump is co-founder and chief strategy officer. The company raised $220 million in mid-2025 and began trading on Nasdaq about September 3, 2025 at a valuation of roughly $5 billion, with Hut 8 keeping majority ownership." }, { "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The Real Deal, with the Trump Organization's own announcement and Fox News", "sources": [ "https://therealdeal.com/international/2025/09/29/trump-organization-to-build-1b-trump-plaza-in-saudi-arabia/", "https://www.trump.com/media/dar-global-strengthens-ongoing-relationship-with-the-trump-organization-by-announcing-second-collaboration-and-future-launch-of-trump-tower-jeddah", "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-secures-deals-3-middle-eastern-nations-first-major-trip-second-term" ], "what": "With the family's licensing business run day to day by his sons while he served as president, the Trump Organization signed a run of new Gulf licensing deals in 2025, including a Trump Tower Jeddah of about $533 million and a further Trump Plaza Jeddah of about $1 billion with the Saudi developer Dar Global, a Trump-branded golf course near Doha, and projects in Dubai, Oman, Qatar and Riyadh. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates were the destinations of his first major foreign trip of the second term." }, { "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "The companies' own filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission", "sources": [ "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000114036125042872/ny20056157x2_defm14a.htm", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000114036126031157/ef20079099_ex99-1.htm" ], "what": "On September 29, 2025 Electronic Arts agreed to be taken private in an all-cash deal valued at about $55 billion by a consortium of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which already held about 9.9 percent, the private equity firm Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. Shareholders were to receive $210 a share, a 25 percent premium; they approved the deal on December 22, 2025 and it closed on August 4, 2026." }, { "date": "2025-10", "kind": "holding", "sources": [ "https://www.agbi.com/real-estate/2025/10/construction-of-trump-tower-dubai-will-begin-this-month/", "https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/politics/trump-middle-east-business-invs", "https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/property/2026/09/03/where-is-trumps-property-empire-expanding-in-the-gulf/" ], "what": "The Trump Organization and Dar Global are building an 80-storey Trump Tower on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, reported at about $1 billion, with construction reported to have begun in October 2025 and the building said to be about 80 percent pre-sold. Separately, since 2017 the Dubai developer DAMAC Properties has owned, while the Trump Organization manages and brands, the Trump International Golf Club Dubai at DAMAC Hills and the branded villas there, and his disclosures have listed millions of dollars of income from DAMAC-linked entities." }, { "date": "2025-11-20", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren", "sources": [ "https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/trumps-middle-east-chip-deals-are-the-art-of-the-steal-presenting-major-national-security-risk-of-china-stealing-sensitive-american-technology-leader-schumer-and-senator-warren-lead-senate-democrats-in-standing-up-against-the-loss-of-building-the-ai-future-in-america-and-urges-admin-to-reconsider-catastrophic-agreements", "https://www.justsecurity.org/113944/what-comes-next-after-trumps-ai-deals-in-the-gulf/", "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/us-approves-ai-chip-exports-to-gulf-after-saudi-crown-prince-visit.html" ], "what": "Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren said publicly that the reversal of the chip-export limits risked letting sensitive American artificial-intelligence technology reach China through Gulf intermediaries, and asked the administration to reconsider the agreements." }, { "date": "2025-12-18", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive's only source for this entry is a financial news aggregator citing Reuters and AP rather than either wire directly. Worth replacing with a primary report before release.", "reported_by": "Representative Don Beyer, reported by TS2 citing Reuters and AP", "sources": [ "https://ts2.tech/en/trump-media-technology-group-djt-stock-on-dec-22-2025-fusion-merger-rally-fades-key-deal-details-and-todays-forecasts/" ], "what": "Trump Media and Technology Group, in which he remains the largest shareholder while serving as president, agreed on December 18, 2025 to buy the nuclear-fusion company TAE Technologies for about $6 billion. Representative Don Beyer called the transaction unprecedented and raised conflict-of-interest questions, because it coincides with the administration's pro-nuclear policy and with rising demand for power from data centers." }, { "date": "2026-03-11", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington", "sources": [ "https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CREW-letter-re-Jared-Kushner-financial-disclosure-3.11.2026.pdf", "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-son-law-jared-kushner-143056869.html" ], "what": "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington wrote to the White House on March 11, 2026 saying the special-envoy appointment triggered a legal requirement to file a public federal financial disclosure within 30 days, and demanding that it be released and the conflicts resolved. As of the most recent reporting the archive located, an August 24, 2026 congressional letter, no such disclosure for that role could be found published." }, { "date": "2026-03-19", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Robert Garcia", "sources": [ "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2026-03-19garciawydenlettertoaffinitypartnersrekushnerfundraisingfinal.pdf", "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2026-03-19garciawydenlettertowhrekushnerfundraisingfinal.pdf" ], "what": "Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Robert Garcia wrote to Affinity Partners and to the White House on March 19, 2026, investigating reports that Jared Kushner was raising further billions from Middle East governments, including in connection with his diplomatic role, after saying he would not seek new foreign capital while serving in government. The letters sought details of the new fundraising, of the Saudi, Emirati and Qatari relationships, and of whether his negotiations touched the same governments." }, { "date": "2026-04-16", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The opening of this investigation is already noted on this record in two earlier entries. This one is the entry that carries the 97 percent figure and the non-response.", "reported_by": "The House Judiciary Committee's ranking member", "sources": [ "https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-opens-sweeping-investigation-into-us-special-envoy-for-peace-jared-kushner-s-foreign-entanglements-and-staggering-conflicts-of-interest" ], "what": "The ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee wrote to Jared Kushner on April 16, 2026 and announced a formal investigation into his position as special envoy, stating that 97 percent of Affinity Partners' funds come from foreign government sovereign funds, related entities and foreign nationals, and calling the combination of the public and private roles an incurable conflict of interest. Neither Kushner nor the firm answered the letter or committee staff, according to the committee." }, { "date": "2026-05-19", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this partially confirmed and notes that some sourcing dates the vesting event within an unlock cycle beginning September 2025 rather than to May 19, 2026.", "sources": [ "https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/trump-family-s-wlfi-project-proposes-4-year-unlock-period-for-tokens", "https://readsludge.com/2025/07/17/trumps-wlfi-project-unlocks-trading-paving-the-way-for-family-profits/", "https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/09/14/trump-s-usd800-million-stake-into-world-liberty-financial-s-token-now-has-a-timeline-to-becoming-sellable" ], "what": "A 14.175 billion WLFI allocation matching his holding entered a vesting contract, requiring an immediate 10 percent token burn and setting a two-year cliff followed by a three-year release, which pushes any sale toward 2028. The token's public launch on September 1, 2025 had let presale investors unlock a fifth of their holdings at once. A report of September 14, 2026 said the family's roughly $800 million stake now has a firmer timeline to becoming sellable, which brought it within the scope of the CLARITY Act's treatment of officials' crypto holdings." }, { "date": "2026-05-27", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The half of the research archive's Hegseth entry that concerns his own family. The other half, about the defense secretary's personal broker, moved to data/politics/_staging/appointees-from-trump-deep-dive.json.", "reported_by": "Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal", "sources": [ "https://www.warren.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/doc/warren_letter_to_dod_on_trump_jrpentagoncontracts.pdf" ], "what": "Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal wrote to the Defense Department asking whether defense and immigration contractors were winning Pentagon business through their relationships with administration figures, including his son Donald Trump Jr." }, { "date": "2026-06-05", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Time and Forbes", "sources": [ "https://time.com/article/2026/06/05/jared-kushner-backed-luxury-resort-albania-protests/", "https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/06/03/why-jared-kushner-and-ivanka-trumps-albanian-resort-plans-are-under-fire/" ], "what": "Entities affiliated with Affinity Partners pursued a resort of about $1.6 billion along the Narta Lagoon coast and on the formerly military island of Sazan in Albania, with the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, which changed the area's protected status in 2024 to allow it. Ground was broken in late May 2026 and by June 5, 2026 thousands of people had protested for six consecutive days, naming the campaign after the migratory birds of the lagoon." }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates the crypto breakdown partially confirmed: the filing is real and the headline figure holds, but it found the five-part breakdown inaccurate and self-contradictory and says it should not be repeated as stated. Two figures for the World Liberty token sales appear in the archive, about $515 million and more than $550 million, from two entries about the same filing. This entry keeps the breakdown because the filing itself is linked and a reader can check it, and flags the dispute here rather than in the rendered text.", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/4EC9A8E6DD078F2985258CA9002C9377/$FILE/Trump,%20Donald%20J.%202025%20Annual%20278.pdf", "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/financial-disclosure-1-billion-cryptocurrency-earnings-meme-coins-rcna352497", "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/trump-financial-disclosure-released.html", "https://time.com/article/2026/07/01/trump-2025-financial-disclosure-crypto-world-liberty-financial/", "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-over-1-billion-on-crypto-ventures-financial-disclosures/", "https://us.transparency.org/news/president-trumps-financial-disclosure-reveals-over-1-2-billion-in-crypto-related-income/" ], "what": "His 2025 annual federal financial disclosure, released by the Office of Government Ethics on June 30, 2026, reported roughly $2.2 billion of income for the year, of which more than $1.2 billion was crypto-related: about $635 million in royalties described as from an entity called Celebration Coins, referring to the Trump and Melania Trump meme coins; more than $550 million from token sales tied to World Liberty Financial, against about $57 million on the previous year's filing; about $290 million from crypto wallets associated with World Liberty; a further $236 million from other token sales; and a $65 million equity sale." }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass confirmed this one against the primary filing, which it downloaded and extracted directly.", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf", "https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew-balaban/2026/07/01/donald-trumps-golf-empire-hauled-in-over-392-million-in-revenue-in-2025/", "https://frontofficesports.com/trumps-golf-businesses-netted-nearly-395m-in-income-in-2025/" ], "what": "The same disclosure reported golf entities earning $394,808,813 for 2025 across about sixteen operating clubs and five in development: Trump National Doral about $121.86 million, Bedminster about $37.6 million, Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach about $36.9 million, Trump National Jupiter about $31.6 million, Turnberry in Scotland about $31.4 million, a Washington-area club about $24.9 million and a Charlotte-area club about $21.4 million, with about $70 million more from seven other properties and about $1.9 million in management fees from Dubai, Indonesia and Jupiter." }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass confirmed this one against the cited report in near-identical language.", "sources": [ "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/financial-disclosure-1-billion-cryptocurrency-earnings-meme-coins-rcna352497" ], "what": "The same disclosure listed about $80 million in proceeds of legal settlements with ABC and George Stephanopoulos, CBS, Meta, YouTube and Alphabet's chief executive, which were paid to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation rather than to him." }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The two statements are the White House's and the company's positions, not independently verified claims, and the archive says so.", "sources": [ "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/financial-disclosure-1-billion-cryptocurrency-earnings-meme-coins-rcna352497", "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf" ], "what": "The 2025 disclosure ran 927 pages, against 8 for President Obama's, 11 for President Biden's and 17 for Vice President Vance's. The reviewing agency ethics official certified that the filer complies with the disclosure laws. Asked about conflicts of interest, the White House said neither the president nor his family has ever engaged or will ever engage in conflicts of interest, and the Trump Organization called the filing one of the most comprehensive financial disclosure reports ever submitted." }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass re-downloaded the filing and re-extracted its text: every line-item figure above is an exact match against the primary document. The aggregate range and the growth multiple are the news organizations'.", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf", "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/trump-foreign-real-estate-licensing-income-gulf-deals.html", "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2026/07/08/trumps-foreign-licensing-business-grew-900-as-he-returned-to-power/", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-foreign-development-tracker/", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/foreign-businesses-and-crypto-ventures-boost-trumps-630-million-haul-in-2024/" ], "what": "His 2025 federal financial disclosure reports international real-estate licensing income of about $59 million to $61 million, which CNBC and Forbes put at roughly nine times the 2023 figure. The filing's own line items include DT Marks Dubai DG $10,361,458.68, DT Marks KSA $9,243,574.15, DT Marks Doha $5,250,000, DT Marks Abu Dhabi $5,000,000, DT Marks Al Raha Beach $5,000,000, DT Marks Vietnam about $5,000,000, DT Marks Philippines SV $1,500,000, DT Marks Oman $949,642, and several India entities." }, { "date": "2026-07-07", "kind": "income", "notes": "The date is PolitiFact's examination of the filing. The archive reports the World Liberty figure as about $800 million here and as more than $550 million in its post-2021 ventures topic, from filings for two different years; both are on this record with their own sources.", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/4EC9A8E6DD078F2985258CA9002C9377/$FILE/Trump,%20Donald%20J.%202025%20Annual%20278.pdf", "https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/jul/07/donald-trump/disclosure-crypto-stocks-wealth/", "https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-trump-family-reaps-roughly-300-million-dollars-from-middle-east-deals-in-2025" ], "what": "His certified 2025 annual federal disclosure reports about $1.4 billion of crypto-related income for the year, his largest single category, including roughly $800 million from World Liberty Financial and $635 million from his meme coin, and $263 million from the sale of half his World Liberty stake to an entity backed by a senior member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family. Analyses of the filing found businesses affiliated with him took in roughly $300 million in total from Middle East business in 2025." }, { "date": "2026-08-11", "kind": "holding", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this confirmed.", "sources": [ "https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/11/07/trump-media-truth-social-djt-tmtg-taylor-swift/", "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/11/trumps-media-company-reports-238m-loss", "https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/trump-media-q2-2026-earnings-net-loss-1236831540/" ], "what": "Trump Media's losses widened through 2025 and 2026: a net loss of $54.8 million in the quarter reported in November 2025, and a net loss of $238.1 million on revenue of $1.7 million in the quarter reported in August 2026, roughly ten times the year-earlier loss, driven largely by falls in the value of its bitcoin holdings and other non-cash items." }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The research archive describes the seller in terms this site does not reproduce, because they are allegations about a third party who is not the subject of this page.", "reported_by": "House Judiciary Committee Democrats, citing Reuters and The Wall Street Journal", "sources": [ "https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-08-24-raskin-to-kushner-affinity-re-albania-and-compliance.pdf", "https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/businessman-who-sold-land-kushner-resort-albania-suspected-faking-deeds-2026-07-11/" ], "what": "A House Judiciary Democrats letter, citing Reuters and Wall Street Journal reporting, states that Jared Kushner paid more than $120 million to an Albanian businessman for land near Zvernec used in the Sazan project, that the seller had a history of falsifying property documents, and that local residents had warned in advance that he did not hold legitimate title. Albanian prosecutors are reported to have frozen assets tied to the purchase after finding the seller did not own the land." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "kind": "reported_conflict", "reported_by": "Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley, and Decrypt", "sources": [ "https://decrypt.co/375726/trump-world-liberty-bank-charter-usd1-stablecoin", "https://www.merkley.senate.gov/es/?p=22188", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Liberty_Financial" ], "what": "World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture his sons launched in 2024, operates the USD1 stablecoin and sought a national trust-bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 2026. Public comments to the agency raised conflict-of-interest and Foreign Emoluments Clause objections over an investment of about $2 billion in the stablecoin venture reported to be linked to Emirati investors and used in a large transaction with Binance, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley formally asked for records of the deal." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "kind": "income", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this confirmed.", "sources": [ "https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/69AEAA9D7455ACD585258E27002DDEE1/$FILE/Donald-J-Trump-2026-278ANNUAL.pdf", "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf", "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-alt5-sigma.html" ], "what": "The WLFI governance token launched in September 2024 with a supply of 100 billion, about 31.8 billion of it in circulation by August 2026, sold first at $0.015 and then at $0.05, raising about $550 million by some counts. His 2024 and 2025 disclosures put his income from WLFI token sales at about $557 million, and the value of his own holding between $50 million and $905 million depending on the price date. Public Citizen estimates investors are collectively at least $1 billion down, against a high of $0.3313 on September 1, 2025 and about $0.057 in late August 2026." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "kind": "reported_conflict", "notes": "The archive's verification pass rates this confirmed.", "reported_by": "Public Citizen, reported by The Block", "sources": [ "https://www.citizen.org/article/donald-trump-crypto-investors-4-7-billion-underwater/", "https://www.citizen.org/news/trumps-crypto-ventures-leave-investors-4-7-billion-underwater-while-he-pockets-1-4-billion/", "https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026-08-28-investors-at-least-4-7-billion-underwater-across-trump-crypto-ventures-public-citizen-says-413003", "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/trump-crypto-47billion-loss.pdf" ], "what": "A Public Citizen report of August 27, 2026 aggregates five of his crypto product lines and estimates investors are collectively at least $4.7 billion down, most of it unrealized: the digital trading cards at least $9.3 million, the WLFI token at least $1 billion, the $TRUMP coin $3.2 billion, the USD1 stablecoin nothing, and Trump Media's bitcoin holdings $450 million. On the same basis it reports that he personally made at least $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025 alone without putting his own money into the ventures, and notes that the interests sit in his revocable trust." } ], "links": { "ballotpedia": "https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2020", "fec": "https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P80001571/?cycle=2020&election_full=false", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2020_presidential_campaign" }, "name": "Donald Trump", "net_worth": [ { "estimator": "Forbes, The Definitive Net Worth of Donald Trump", "high": 2100000000, "low": 2100000000, "notes": "Forbes' year-by-year estimates in the same tracker run about $4.1 billion in 2015, $4.5 billion in 2016, $3.5 billion in 2017 and $3.1 billion in 2018 and 2019. 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Published as an estimate because it is the source of wealth figure the archive carries.", "sources": [ "https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4873145-how-much-did-trump-inherit-from-his-father/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Donald_Trump" ], "year": 2018 }, { "estimator": "Forbes", "high": 2600000000, "low": 2600000000, "notes": "Forbes' February 2024 figure, before Trump Media and Technology Group's Nasdaq debut on March 26, 2024.", "sources": [ "https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2024/04/02/trumps-net-worth-2024-which-assets-are-up-which-are-down/", "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/article/the-definitive-networth-of-donaldtrump/" ], "year": 2024 }, { "estimator": "Forbes", "high": 5700000000, "low": 5700000000, "notes": "Forbes' April 1, 2024 figure, after the Trump Media Nasdaq listing.", "sources": [ "https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2024/04/02/trumps-net-worth-2024-which-assets-are-up-which-are-down/", "https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-donald-trumps-net-worth-2014-2024/" ], "year": 2024 }, { "estimator": "Bloomberg", "high": 7670000000, "low": 7670000000, "notes": "Bloomberg's 2024 estimate, reported later in the year than the two Forbes figures.", "sources": [ "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-became-3b-richer-since-145725968.html" ], "year": 2024 } ], "notes": "P1-06, commits 1, 2 and 4. The 2020 and 2024 cycle files, plus four complete topics of the research archive's Trump deep dive: the 2000-2016 timeline, the status of the major legal cases, the documented conflicts of interest across both terms, and the Trump Organization's 2025-2026 corporate structure. Its international licensing topic and its post-2021 family business ventures and its foreign business-and-policy overlap since 2017 and its second-term allies and its Affinity Partners and Ivanka Trump topic are folded in complete as well. Nine of the ten deep-dive topics are now published; the motivations analysis is excluded by the coordinator's ruling of 2026-09-19. The remaining topics are named as unfinished in design/reports/politics/P1-06.md. Verification verdicts from the archive's adversarial fact-check pass are carried in the developer notes of the entries they bear on, never in a rendered field. Left out and why: see the report. Coordinator ruling 2 of 2026-09-19 applied once P1-01 added the kind: the fourteen entries recording a court's or a prosecutor's act carry kind \"ruling\" rather than \"action\". The two impeachments stay \"action\": a chamber of Congress is not a court. Two record entries written from the 2024 cycle file, the E. Jean Carroll damages award and the New York civil-fraud judgment, were removed as duplicates of the fuller versions the deep dive's legal topic supplied. Coordinator rulings of 2026-09-19: an appointee's own finances belong on the appointee's page, so sixteen such entries moved to data/politics/_staging/appointees-from-trump-deep-dive.json with their sources, leaving on this record only the appointment itself and the two halves that concern him or his family; and Ivanka Trump's November 2022 statement that she did not plan to be involved in politics is added, so the family material does not read one way by omission.", "offices": [ { "from": "2017-01-20", "how": "elected", "office": "President of the United States", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump", "https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2020" ], "to": "2021-01-20" }, { "from": "2025-01-20", "how": "elected", "notes": "Sworn in as the 47th president.", "office": "President of the United States", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election", "https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2024" ], "to": null } ], "outside_spending": [ { "as_of": "2020-12-31", "notes": "OpenSecrets found allied outside groups raised at least $255,945,422 for the 2020 cycle, which takes the whole pro-Trump financial effort over $1 billion once every vehicle is counted.", "race": "2020-president", "sources": [ "https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/donald-trump/candidate-outside-spending?id=N00023864", "https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/donald-trump/candidate?id=N00023864" ], "support": 255945422, "top_spenders": [ { "amount": 126059217, "name": "America First Action", "side": "support" }, { "amount": 14504269, "name": "Committee to Defend the President", "side": "support" }, { "amount": 9881272, "name": "Great America PAC", "side": "support" } ] }, { "as_of": "2025-02-06", "notes": "OpenSecrets' 2024-in-review outside-spending tally put total fundraising by pro-Trump outside groups at roughly $989 million. 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He is the first United States president to be impeached twice." }, { "date": "2022-11-15", "evaluations": [], "kind": "statement", "notes": "Added on the coordinator's ruling of 2026-09-19, so the family material on this page does not read one way by omission: the Kushner entries record a family member who took a role, and this records one who declined. Her words are hers and are attributed; the rest is a fact about who did and did not join his campaign and his administration, which is why it sits on his record rather than in the financial-interests section.", "sources": [ "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-says-she-loves-her-father-does-not-plan-involved-politics.amp", "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-2024-presidential-campaign/" ], "what": "Days after he announced his 2024 campaign, his daughter Ivanka Trump told Fox News Digital on November 15, 2022 that she did not plan to be involved in politics, saying she was choosing to prioritize her young children and the private life the family was creating in Miami, while saying she loves and supports her father. She did not join the 2024 campaign staff, had no formal role at the 2024 Republican convention and took no position in the second administration." }, { "date": "2023-05-09", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "notes": "The date is the May 2023 verdict, which the archive gives only as a month; the day is the one the Justia opinion records. Post-judgment interest had taken the amount owed to about $5.8 million by a later enforcement order.", "sources": [ "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html", "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/appeals-court-upholds-5-million-e-jean-carroll-verdict-trump-rcna185745", "https://courthousenews.com/no-en-banc-in-trump-appeals-of-e-jean-carroll-verdict-83-million-judgment/", "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/trump-e-jean-carroll-supreme-court-sex-abuse.html" ], "what": "A federal jury in E. Jean Carroll's Adult Survivors Act lawsuit found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded her $5 million, about $2.02 million on the sexual-assault claim and about $2.98 million on the defamation claim. The Second Circuit affirmed the verdict on December 30, 2024, declined to rehear it and, on June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court declined to hear a further appeal, ending the case." }, { "date": "2023-08-24", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "notes": "The photograph itself is not published on this site (N-12).", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot_of_Donald_Trump" ], "what": "Surrendered at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on the Georgia election-racketeering indictment and was booked as inmate P01135809, the first booking photograph taken of a United States president." }, { "date": "2024-01-26", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "notes": "The archive's own verification pass records that reporting suggests the Supreme Court declined review in mid-2026 but that the denial date was not independently confirmed, and says it should be checked against the Supreme Court docket before being treated as final. 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A Second Circuit panel rejected his appeal on April 29, 2026, calling the award fair and reasonable; the full court declined to rehear it and he petitioned the Supreme Court on July 29, 2026." }, { "date": "2024-02-16", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/decisions/trump-decision.pdf", "https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/16/trump-fraud-trial-judge-engoron-verdict-ny-ag-business-case.html" ], "what": "After an eleven-week trial without a jury, Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York Supreme Court found him, the Trump Organization and its executives liable for giving banks and insurers fraudulently inflated financial statements, ordered disgorgement of $363,893,816 plus interest for a judgment of $454,576,230.62, and barred him from serving as an officer or director of a New York company for three years." }, { "date": "2024-05-30", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts", "https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-30-24/index.html" ], "what": "A Manhattan jury found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, over a payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. He is the first former United States president convicted of a felony." }, { "date": "2024-07-15", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2024", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2024_presidential_campaign" ], "what": "Selected Ohio's United States Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, at the Republican National Convention." }, { "date": "2024-07-15", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490070/united-states-v-trump/", "https://www.npr.org/2024/07/15/g-s1-10379/trump-documents-case-dismissed", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/" ], "what": "Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida dismissed the classified-documents indictment against him in a 93-page order holding that Special Counsel Jack Smith's appointment violated the Appointments Clause and that his funding violated the Appropriations Clause. She did not rule on whether the documents had been mishandled." }, { "date": "2024-11-07", "evaluations": [], "kind": "appointment", "notes": "The appointment is his act and stays here. What the public record shows about this appointee's own finances moved to data/politics/_staging/appointees-from-trump-deep-dive.json on the coordinator's ruling of 2026-09-19, for a person record of their own.", "sources": [ "https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-susie-wiles-chief-of-staff", "https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-11-23/trump-incoming-chief-of-staff-susie-wiles-former-lobbyist-face-special-interests-florida", "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Wiles-Susie.pdf", "https://projects.propublica.org/trump-team-financial-disclosures/appointees/wiles-susie/" ], "what": "Named Susie Wiles, his 2024 campaign manager, as White House chief of staff, the first woman to hold the post." }, { "date": "2024-11-25", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "notes": "The archive records that as of its reading on 2026-09-18 the case remained dismissed and had not been refiled, and that no federal effort to revive it had been reported.", "sources": [ "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656595/united-states-v-trump/", "https://www.npr.org/2024/11/25/nx-s1-5205376/jan-6-trump-case", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/25/trump-cases-motion-to-dismiss-jack-smith/" ], "what": "Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss the four-count federal election-obstruction indictment against him after the election, citing the Justice Department's position that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted federally, and saying the dismissal was not based on the merits or the strength of the case. Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed it the same day, without prejudice." }, { "date": "2024-12-19", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/12/trumpgaappealsopn121924.pdf", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/19/fani-willis-disqualified-trump-georgia-case/", "https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/09/16/da-fani-willis-loses-appeal-in-quest-to-lead-fulton-county-election-interference-case-against-trump/" ], "what": "The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could not continue prosecuting him and fourteen co-defendants in the 2020-election racketeering case, citing a significant appearance of impropriety arising from her relationship with a special prosecutor she had hired. The charges themselves were not dismissed." }, { "date": "2025-01-10", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5255806/president-elect-trump-gets-sentence-of-unconditional-discharge-in-new-york", "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/10/trump-sentencing-new-york-hush-money-case.html" ], "what": "Justice Juan Merchan sentenced him to an unconditional discharge in the Manhattan case: the conviction stands with no jail, fine or probation. Merchan said it was the only lawful sentence that allowed a judgment of conviction to be entered without encroaching on the highest office in the land." }, { "date": "2025-01-20", "evaluations": [], "kind": "order", "sources": [ "https://cossa.org/president-trump-rescinds-executive-orders-impacting-executive-personnel-ethics-commitments-and-census-parameters/", "https://thehill.com/lobbying/5101352-trump-axes-biden-era-ethics-order-lobbying-restrictions/", "https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/trumps-executive-order-on-ethics.html" ], "what": "Signed Executive Order 14148 on the first day of his second term, rescinding a series of Biden administration orders including the executive-branch ethics pledge, which had barred incoming appointees from taking gifts from registered lobbyists and imposed a two-year wait before they could work for or lobby on behalf of foreign governments. He had revoked his own 2017 ethics pledge on the last day of his first term." }, { "date": "2025-01-20", "evaluations": [], "kind": "appointment", "notes": "One of the research archive's second-term allies entries. The dated act recorded here is his appointment; what the sentence says about the appointee's own finances is the public record of that person, attributed to the filing or the outlet that carries it, and is not an evaluation of either of them.", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)", "https://www.legistorm.com/person/bio/56466/Stephen_N_Miller.html" ], "what": "Named Stephen Miller, an aide from his first term, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and the twelfth homeland security adviser, a role at the centre of immigration and domestic policy in the second term." }, { "date": "2025-01-20", "evaluations": [], "kind": "appointment", "notes": "One of the research archive's second-term allies entries. The dated act recorded here is his appointment; what the sentence says about the appointee's own finances is the public record of that person, attributed to the filing or the outlet that carries it, and is not an evaluation of either of them.", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5415641/musk-leaves-doge-what-comes-next", "https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/" ], "what": "Appointed Elon Musk a senior White House adviser and effective head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, a special government employee role capped by law at 130 working days in a year, which he left on May 30, 2025. NPR reported that the tenure was marked by legal setbacks, overstated savings claims and little evidence the department made government more efficient." }, { "date": "2025-01-20", "evaluations": [], "kind": "appointment", "notes": "The appointment is his act and stays here. 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The dated act recorded here is his appointment; what the sentence says about the appointee's own finances is the public record of that person, attributed to the filing or the outlet that carries it, and is not an evaluation of either of them.", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Donald_Trump", "https://abcnews.com/US/trump-replacing-pam-bondi-attorney-general-todd-blanche/story?id=131647710" ], "what": "His second cabinet as of September 2026: Marco Rubio at State, Scott Bessent at the Treasury, Pete Hegseth at Defense, Doug Burgum at the Interior, Brooke Rollins at Agriculture, Howard Lutnick at Commerce, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Health and Human Services, Scott Turner at Housing, Sean Duffy at Transportation, Chris Wright at Energy, Linda McMahon at Education and Doug Collins at Veterans Affairs. Three posts turned over: the attorney general was dismissed in April 2026 and replaced, after Senate confirmation, by Todd Blanche in August 2026." }, { "date": "2025-01-27", "evaluations": [], "kind": "appointment", "notes": "The appointment is his act and stays here. What the public record shows about this appointee's own finances moved to data/politics/_staging/appointees-from-trump-deep-dive.json on the coordinator's ruling of 2026-09-19, for a person record of their own.", "sources": [ "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/23/trump-picks-billionaire-investor-scott-bessent-as-treasury-secretary", "https://www.hedgeweek.com/bessent-to-resign-from-key-square-if-confirmed-at-treasury/" ], "what": "Appointed Scott Bessent secretary of the Treasury; the Senate confirmed him by 68 votes to 29 on January 27, 2025." }, { "date": "2025-02", "evaluations": [], "kind": "appointment", "notes": "The appointment is his act and stays here. 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What the public record shows about this appointee's own finances moved to data/politics/_staging/appointees-from-trump-deep-dive.json on the coordinator's ruling of 2026-09-19, for a person record of their own.", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5323771/rfk-jr-vaccine-advisers-conflicts-interest", "https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/rfk-acip-childhood-vaccine-policy-court-blocked/814880/" ], "what": "Appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. secretary of health and human services; the Senate confirmed him and he was sworn in in February 2025." }, { "date": "2025-02-11", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293113/trump-document-case-nauta-de-oliveira", "https://abcnews.com/US/court-dismisses-appeal-trumps-classified-documents-case/story?id=118689312" ], "what": "After his election the Justice Department moved to drop the pending appeal of that dismissal as it applied to him, again citing the department's policy against prosecuting a sitting president, and the Eleventh Circuit dismissed that part of the appeal. The remaining appeal concerned two co-defendants who, as private citizens, were not covered by presidential immunity." }, { "date": "2025-05-13", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/trumps-middle-east-trip-saudi-arabia-qatar-uae-go-all-out.html", "https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/unpacking-trumps-2025-gulf-investment-tour", "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5400447/trump-middle-east-trip-qatar-air-force-one" ], "what": "On the first major foreign trip of his second term, May 13 to 16, 2025, he visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. In Riyadh the White House announced a $600 billion Saudi investment commitment in the United States and a $142 billion arms package it called the largest single defense sales agreement in American history. Outlets put the total announced across the three countries at roughly $2 trillion, spanning energy, defense, technology, infrastructure and critical minerals." }, { "date": "2025-05-15", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/trump-hails-strengthened-relations-with-uae-as-he-wraps-up-gulf-tour", "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/trumps-middle-east-trip-saudi-arabia-qatar-uae-go-all-out.html", "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-14/what-s-at-stake-as-the-us-gives-saudis-access-to-state-of-the-art-ai-chips", "https://restofworld.org/2025/trump-middle-east-trip-ai-chip-tech-deals/" ], "what": "On the Qatar leg of the same trip he told American troops at Al Udeid Air Base that Qatar had signed defense purchases worth $42 billion, and Qatar Airways agreed to buy up to 210 Boeing widebody aircraft. On the United Arab Emirates leg he said the country would invest $1.4 trillion in the United States over the following decade, largely in artificial-intelligence infrastructure, and the visit produced an agreement letting the country import up to 500,000 of Nvidia's advanced chips a year from 2025 to 2027, potentially worth about $15 billion, reversing tighter Biden-era limits that had been set over the risk of the chips reaching China." }, { "date": "2025-05-21", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395696/qatar-trump-plane-gift-ethics", "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5406420/trump-accepts-qatar-plane-air-force-one", "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-clarifies-ownership-aircraft-defense-qatars-gift" ], "what": "Accepted a Boeing 747-8 reported to be worth about $400 million as a gift from the government of Qatar, to be fitted out as a temporary Air Force One and later transferred to his presidential library foundation. He said the plane was a gift from a nation, Qatar, to the Department of Defense and not to him. Ethics specialists and members of Congress of both parties said it was likely to breach the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which bars a federal officeholder from accepting a gift from a foreign state without the consent of Congress." }, { "date": "2025-05-22", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/trump-meme-coin-dinner/", "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-raise-red-flags-trumps-private-dinner-meme-coin-hol-rcna204293", "https://www.axios.com/2025/05/22/trump-meme-coin-dinner" ], "what": "Held a private dinner at his Virginia golf club for the 220 largest holders of the $TRUMP coin he had launched days before his second inauguration, with the top 25 also given a White House tour. Reporting said the guests included foreign nationals, among them the coin's largest holder. A Washington Post analysis found entities affiliated with him had taken about $312 million from coin sales and $43 million in fees since the launch, and the coin's market value rose more than 50 percent, to about $2.7 billion, after the dinner was announced." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "evaluations": [], "kind": "statement", "notes": "One of the research archive's second-term allies entries. The dated act recorded here is his appointment; what the sentence says about the appointee's own finances is the public record of that person, attributed to the filing or the outlet that carries it, and is not an evaluation of either of them. The word crazy is his own, reported by CNBC.", "sources": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-crazy-government-contracts.html", "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/30/not-really-leaving-trump-bids-goodbye-to-elon-musk-at-white-house-event" ], "what": "After Elon Musk left the department and opposed the administration's tax-and-spending bill, the two fell out in public. He told reporters that Musk had gone crazy and suggested cutting his companies' government contracts. At a White House farewell event days earlier he had said Musk was not really leaving." }, { "date": "2025-08-21", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2025/2025_04756.htm", "https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-84246/civil-fraud-penalty-president-trump-appeal", "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-releases-statement-first-department-opinion-affirming", "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/trump-new-york-appeal-james-fraud.html" ], "what": "A five-judge panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously vacated the whole disgorgement award, by then about $464.6 million, as an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment, while dividing on the merits: two judges voted to affirm the fraud liability findings and two to strike them. Attorney General Letitia James appealed the vacated penalty to the New York Court of Appeals on September 4, 2025." }, { "date": "2025-09-06", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/30/politics/g20-doral-resort-trump", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trumps-unilateral-selection-of-his-own-club-for-the-g20-puts-trump-first-while-other-cities-lose-out/", "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-g20-summit-doral-resort-miami-2026-rcna229477" ], "what": "Announced that Trump National Doral, the resort he owns near Miami, would host the 2026 G20 leaders' summit on December 14 and 15, 2026, the property he had proposed and then withdrawn for the 2020 G7. The White House said Doral would host the summit at cost with no profit to him or his company." }, { "date": "2025-11-20", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/us-approves-ai-chip-exports-to-gulf-after-saudi-crown-prince-visit.html", "https://www.justsecurity.org/113944/what-comes-next-after-trumps-ai-deals-in-the-gulf/" ], "what": "In late 2025 and January 2026 the Commerce Department moved chip-export licensing for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates from a presumption of denial to case-by-case review, approving sales of tens of thousands of advanced Nvidia and AMD chips including previously restricted models, with a stated path toward newer ones, to a Saudi state artificial-intelligence company and an Emirati one, including, on one account, a $1 billion approval for 35,000 chips." }, { "date": "2025-11-26", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://www.npr.org/2025/11/26/nx-s1-5611431/georgia-trump-election-case-dismissed", "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/trump-georgia-election-case-dismissed-2020.html", "https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/11/26/fulton-county-election-interference-case-against-trump-and-his-allies-is-dismissed/" ], "what": "Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court dismissed the Georgia case in full. After no other attorney would take over, Peter Skandalakis of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia named himself special prosecutor and moved to dismiss, arguing the conduct alleged was conceived in Washington rather than in Georgia and belonged in federal court." }, { "date": "2026-01-07", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/trump-seeks-6-million-for-legal-costs-of-georgia-election-case", "https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-01-07/trump-requests-6-million-in-legal-fees-in-georgia-election-interference-case" ], "what": "Asked the Georgia courts to award him about $6.26 million in legal fees and costs under a state law enacted in May 2025 that requires fees to be awarded to defendants whose charges are dismissed after a prosecutor is disqualified for improper conduct. The request had not been reported as resolved." }, { "date": "2026-02-19", "evaluations": [], "kind": "appointment", "sources": [ "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-14/jared-kushner-s-dual-role-trump-peace-envoy-and-6-billion-fund-manager", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/crew-statement-on-jared-kushners-role-as-special-peace-envoy/" ], "what": "Named Jared Kushner special envoy for peace on February 19, 2026, formalizing an advisory role he had held since 2025 and making him a lead United States negotiator on Gaza and later on Ukraine; he met President Zelensky in Kyiv on September 6, 2026. He remained founder, chief executive and sole owner of Affinity Partners, which reported regulatory assets under management of $6,160,297,411 in an April 2026 filing, $6,097,061,904 of it, about 99 percent, from foreign sources." }, { "date": "2026-02-23", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/trump-report-jack-smith-judge-aileen-cannon-mar-a-lago.html" ], "what": "Judge Cannon blocked the public release of the volume of Jack Smith's final report covering the classified-documents investigation, holding that because she had found his appointment unconstitutional the report carries no authority to be released. That volume remains unpublished." }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "sources": [ "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/trump-hush-money-conviction-appeal", "https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-08-28/trump-loses-bid-to-move-already-decided-criminal-hush-money-case-to-us-court", "https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6057732-trump-criminal-conviction-removal-federal-court-denied/" ], "what": "The Manhattan conviction and its sentence remain in place. He is appealing to the Appellate Division, First Department, arguing that the district attorney wrongly used an alleged federal campaign-finance violation to raise misdemeanor counts to felonies, with briefing under way through mid-2026; and his repeated attempts to move the case into federal court were rejected again on August 28, 2026." }, { "date": "2026-09-18", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "notes": "A status entry, dated to the research archive's own reading day of 2026-09-18. It will need revisiting when the Court of Appeals rules.", "sources": [ "https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-new-york-state-civil-fraud-appeal-letitia-james-rcna225793" ], "what": "As of mid-September 2026 the New York civil-fraud case is pending before the New York Court of Appeals on the state's cross-appeal. The fraud liability finding against him, the Trump Organization and two of his sons stands, as do the injunction and the independent monitorship; the roughly $464.6 million penalty remains vacated and unenforced. 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