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A day after the judge’s sweeping fraud finding, Trump’s lawyers were already back in court trying to pin down what parts of his New York empire could be stripped from his control. The political problem is obvious: the former real-estate mogul spent years branding himself as the ultimate dealmaker, and now the public record says the empire was built on cooked numbers.
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A day after the judge’s sweeping fraud finding, Trump’s lawyers were already back in court trying to pin down what parts of his New York empire could be stripped from his control. The political problem is obvious: the former real-estate mogul spent years branding himself as the ultimate dealmaker, and now the public record says the empire was built on cooked numbers.
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A day after the judge’s sweeping fraud finding, Trump’s lawyers were already back in court trying to pin down what parts of his New York empire could be stripped from his control. The political problem is obvious: the former real-estate mogul spent years branding himself as the ultimate dealmaker, and now the public record says the empire was built on cooked numbers.
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