Inauguration of Donald Trump

===Trump's settlement with the D.C. Attorney General===
The office of [[Attorney General for the District of Columbia]] Karl Racine served a subpoena to the inaugural committee in February 2019 as part of an investigation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-inaugural-committee-hit-another-subpoena-n977431|title=Trump inaugural committee hit with another subpoena|website=[[NBC News]]|date=February 27, 2019 |access-date=February 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228100606/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-inaugural-committee-hit-another-subpoena-n977431|archive-date=February 28, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, the office sued the inaugural committee, accusing it of violating D.C. laws governing nonprofits by improperly paying more than $1 million to Trump International Hotel during inauguration week.<ref name=LiptonSettles>Eric Lipton, [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/us/politics/trump-hotel-lawsuit-settlement.html Trump Settles Suit Over Payments to Hotel for 2017 Inauguration], ''[[The New York Times]]'' (May 3, 2022).</ref> Racine said that the inaugural committee had paid in excess of market rates for the Trump hotel space as part of scheme to enrich the Trump family.<ref name=LiptonSettles/><ref name=DeposedDec2020>{{cite web |agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=Ivanka Trump deposed Tuesday as part of inauguration fund lawsuit |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ivanka-trump-deposed-tuesday-part-inauguration-fund-lawsuit-n1249801 |website=[[NBC News]] |date=December 3, 2020 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |archive-date=December 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205182229/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ivanka-trump-deposed-tuesday-part-inauguration-fund-lawsuit-n1249801 |url-status=live }}</ref> Records were subpoenaed from [[Ivanka Trump]], [[Melania Trump]], and Trump associate [[Thomas Barrack Jr.]]<ref name=DeposedDec2020/> Ivanka Trump gave five hours of deposition testimony in December 2020 as part of the suit.<ref name=DeposedDec2020/> In May 2020, Trump settled the lawsuit for $750,000; according to a lawyer for Trump's inaugural committee, half of the settlement payment was paid by the inaugural committee, and the other half by Trump family companies.<ref name=LiptonSettles/>