Like other rich men who appear to break the law with abandon, Trump has a tendency to evade consequences. Can that last?
Photograph: Brittainy Newman/APPhotograph: Brittainy Newman/APespite Donald Trump’s self-mythologizing ostentation – despite his gold toilets and eastern European models, despite his airplanes, golf courses, and gleaming bad taste – he always had more shamelessness than actual money. This has been painfully obvious for years, so in a way, what the New York attorney general evealed on Wednesday, first in a press conference, then in a, was nothing new.
In typical Trump fashion, the alleged frauds range from the shameless, to the bizarre, to the somewhat sad At Trump Park Avenue, a high-rise apartment building he owns a few blocks away, 12 units were set aside by law as rent-stabilized; the rates couldn’t be raised, and the tenants could not be evicted. But Trump allegedly valued the property as if he were collecting market rate rents on those apartments, a fiction that increased the value of the building by almost 70 times.
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