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Trump’s Penthouse Math Comes Back to Bite Him
October 10’s most damaging Trump-world development was the continued spotlight on the New York fraud case, where testimony and court records kept undercutting the former president’s preferred version of his finances. The issue at the center of the day’s reporting was simple: Trump’s property values were being presented one way to lenders, another way to tax authorities, and still another way to the public. That is not a branding problem. It is the raw material of a fraud case.