Donald Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion per year, New York officials said in court filings unsealed Wednesday ahead of his upcoming civil fraud trial.

The new estimates came in filings from the New York state attorney general’s office, which is suing Trump, some of his adult children and his business empire for falsifying his net worth in an effort to obtain favorable terms from banks and insurance companies. The trial is set to begin Oct. 2.

140 points

This certainly explains why he needs broke ass dumbasses to pay his legal fees for him.

So much winning!

permalink
report
reply
57 points

I love the poorly educated!

-Trump in 2016

There is a reason the GQP it trying to dismantle the education system in the US…

permalink
report
parent
reply
21 points

oh absolutely. ironically, he’s just as dumb as his constituents.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1705902/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had

permalink
report
parent
reply
17 points

Explains his having to get a bail bond, L, O, Fucking L.

permalink
report
parent
reply
54 points

Is there anything that Trump doesn’t fraudulently inflate about himself?

permalink
report
reply
57 points

His weight

permalink
report
parent
reply
28 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points

Id heard he lied or whatever but 215? Shouldn’t he at least make it believable? Like pretend there’s muscle under there or something.

permalink
report
parent
reply
16 points

Apparently we’re suppose to believe he’s an inch taller but 10lbs lighter than Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

His hands.

permalink
report
parent
reply
34 points

So if he claimed it was 2.5 billion, but is inflated by 2.2 billion, his net worth is more like 300 million?

permalink
report
reply
35 points
*

In other words, substantially less than he inherited from his father.

permalink
report
parent
reply
25 points

How dare you use woke math against him!

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Minus the half billion he owes to Russia?

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

h, saying he falsely boosted it by between $812 million to $2.2 billion (or 17-39%) in each year from 2011 to 2021.

More like he’s worth about 2.5B but he was telling banks he was worth 5.

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

Forbes counts 550m for truth.social, which is a ridiculously high valuation. The rest is mainly ties up in NY real estate, which is struggling. He’s not poor by any means, but 2.5B is still a massive overvaluation most likely. Count his liabilities (1B in debts as of 2020) and I doubt he breaks a billion.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

He’s so leveraged and indebted to his Russian and Saudi overlords it’s quite possible he’s underwater

Thusly his motivation to peddle secret docs

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

NY real estate, which is struggling

Sorry, what did I miss? Isn’t NY real estate the place where a 200sqft apartment costs millions of dollars?

permalink
report
parent
reply
33 points

We need to know trump’s actual net worth right before his first campaign launched.

permalink
report
reply
17 points

I’m betting it isn’t much higher than 50k

Seriously how did anyone think this guy was wealthy? I have a rat who has more business acumen than that idiot. That’s been true since the apprentice days.

Wasn’t there a guy once who managed to become a multi-millionaire by just claiming to already be a millionaire and getting favourable bank loans?

Why are the banks not checking this shit. What’s the point in them.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

I’m betting it isn’t much higher than 50k

lol if you hate the guy you could just go with negative numbers instead.

it’s not uncommon for rich people to go into the negative millions when their investments go belly up.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

Any chance that some of the lenders might sue him as well, for falsifying his application?

permalink
report
reply

politics

!politics@lemmy.world

Create post

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
  2. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  3. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  4. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
  5. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  6. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That’s all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

Community stats

  • 14K

    Monthly active users

  • 11K

    Posts

  • 332K

    Comments