Lighthizer's AFPI role functioned as the policy holding-pattern between his first-term USTR tenure and the Trump-II trade-policy ecosystem. AFPI publicly described itself as a personnel and policy pipeline for a returning Trump administration.
No statutory-violation flags recorded against this transition.
No other documented transitions on file for this entity.
Open the Robert Lighthizer dossier for connections, donations, and other ledger rows on the same entity. Open the America First Policy Institute dossier for everyone else who's revolved through that destination.
https://www.goblinhouse.net/revolving-door/11Goblin House. "Robert Lighthizer: prior employer → America First Policy Institute" (revolving-door transition). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 18, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/revolving-door/11.Sourced from public records and content-hashed; verify via /attestation, standard at /methodology.