Trump’s own signature undercuts his penthouse fantasy
A 1994 document signed by Donald Trump showed his Trump Tower triplex at just under 11,000 square feet, directly contradicting years of financial statements that treated it as roughly 30,000 square feet. That detail came out in the New York civil fraud trial and gave prosecutors another clean example of how the Trump Organization’s numbers drifted away from reality when it suited the balance sheet. The basic problem for Trump is simple: this is not a hostile witness guessing at old gossip. It is Trump’s own paper trail.
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Trump’s own signature undercuts his penthouse fantasy
A 1994 document signed by Donald Trump showed his Trump Tower triplex at just under 11,000 square feet, directly contradicting years of financial statements that treated it as roughly 30,000 square feet. That detail came out in the New York civil fraud trial and gave prosecutors another clean example of how the Trump Organization’s numbers drifted away from reality when it suited the balance sheet. The basic problem for Trump is simple: this is not a hostile witness guessing at old gossip. It i…
A 1994 document signed by Donald Trump showed his Trump Tower triplex at just under 11,000 square feet, directly contradicting years of financial statements that treated it as roughly 30,000 square feet. That detail came out in the New York civil fraud trial and gave prosecutors another clean example of how the Trump Organization’s numbers drifted away from reality when it suited the balance sheet. The basic problem…
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