Zach Everson
Research Director for the Trump Accountability Project
Zach Everson (he/him/his) is the research director for Public Citizen’s Trump Accountability Project, focusing on waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, and conflicts of interest involving President Donald Trump and his administration.
Before joining Public Citizen, Zach was a staff writer at Forbes investigating how Trump turns political power into personal profit and other stories at the intersection of money and politics — including Trump’s crypto ventures, campaign cash flowing to Trump businesses, and financial filings revealing conflicts of interest. Earlier, he spent years covering the now-shuttered Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. for ProPublica, Vanity Fair, Politico, Mother Jones, NBC News, The Daily Beast, France’s Capital , and his own 1100 Pennsylvania newsletter.
Zach has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC News, Al Jazeera, and Inside Edition. His work has been cited by members of Congress, government watchdog groups, and outlets including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Germany’s Stern, and Agencia EFE.