Kristen Welker’s Meet the Press debut was focused on her interview with former president Donald Trump, and their sit-down, his first with a major broadcast network since leaving office, was pretty much what you would expect.
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Donald Trump allegedly overestimated his net worth by more than $2.2 BILLION, according to New York’s Attorney General! Whoa!
As we’ve reported previously, AG Letitia James (pictured above, inset) and her staff have brought a massive $250 million lawsuit against the former President. They have alleged Trump committed fraud by inflating the value of and interest in his real estate portfolio to mislead investors. That suit claims Trump, his children, and their company “grossly” inflated the ex-prez’s net worth in order to cheat and mislead lenders and prospective investors.
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On Wednesday, James submitted a new court filing claiming Trump “routinely overstated his net worth,” according to ABC News and others. The AG’s office claimed in this week’s docs that back in 2014, Trump wrote in financial statements that he had $6.7 billion in assets under management. There was just one problem with that: the state claims the Celebrity Apprentice alum overstated his assets by “more than $2.2 billion” in those docs.
TWO BILLION DOLLARS?! Oops!! Just a slight rounding error, right?!
Not holding back, the state’s filing laid out their beef with Trump’s alleged asset inflation:
The docs lay out many examples of this, per ABC News, but few are more egregious than the controversial ex-leader’s flagship property: the Mar-a-Lago estate down in Florida. That property, the AG notes, was listed in one Trump filing “as if it could be sold as a private single family residence for amounts ranging between $347 million to $739 million.”
That’s a huge range on those numbers, of course. But it’s not even close to how Palm Beach County assessed it! James’ filing notes the Florida
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