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.

  • FuglyDuck
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    14010 months ago

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

    So much winning!

    • 0110010001100010
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      5710 months ago

      I love the poorly educated!

      -Trump in 2016

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

    • Nougat
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      1710 months ago

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

  • @TheJims
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    5410 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    3410 months ago

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

    • @IphtashuFitz
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      2510 months ago

      How dare you use woke math against him!

    • @macrocephalic
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      210 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        910 months ago

        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.

        • @Pretzilla
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          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

          • @CADmonkey
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            410 months ago

            I feel like having someone indebted to foreign countries handling top secret documents is a national security issue, but what do I know I just make drawings.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          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?

          • @[email protected]
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            910 months ago

            Ok, so a couple of things make his portfolio worth less than you would think. To start, he doesn’t own all of it outright, most of it is financed with debt and a large part of his portfolio is in commercial real estate, which is struggling to get back to pre-covid occupancy. Last but not least, he slaps his name on everything and many people do not want to be associated with him in any way, shape or form, so his luxury condos are also struggling with occupancy.

            • @[email protected]
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              110 months ago

              Ok, thanks. I totally get the massive debts and his name being a liability (at least to the people who have enough money to buy what he’s selling).

  • @Snapz
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    3310 months ago

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

    • Echo Dot
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      1710 months ago

      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.

      • @anonono
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        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.

  • athos77
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    1410 months ago

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

      • donuts
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        510 months ago

        Sure but is financial fraud not a crime? Why not charge him criminally if he has been demonstrably fraudulent? I’m not a lawyer and I guess I don’t really understand.