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A campaign circulating online is seeking support for what it describes as an audit of president-elect Donald Trump requested by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts regarding his potential conflicts of interest. The push to contact the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) originated with a social media user who said that he called the agency supporting the request to audit President-elect Donald Trump's finances. According to the original post, a very nice woman named Miss Mahoney suggested that he contact agency officials Tim Minelli and Katherine Siggerud and provided their email addresses. Another version of the post adds a second email address connected to Siggerud. The GAO confirmed the phone call, saying she acted appropriately in providing the email addresses. The post has since been copied and pasted across social media. Warren and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) did send the GAO a letter on 23 November 2016 asking the agency to review Trump's business holdings. The letter asking it to consider several questions regarding Trump's transition process, including: However, the letter does not specifically mention an audit. A GAO spokesperson confirmed on 30 November 2016 that the agency had received emails related to Warren's request, and that the office planned to respond to each of them. However, it did not have a total count or volume estimate for the amount of messages it had received as of press time. The lawmakers' request is currently under review.
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