Opinion by Eugene Robinson: “Trump was the ultimate, swaggering New Yorker. Now, another tough New Yorker might use the former president's own boasts to bring him down.”
and was worth $327 million, far more than any New York apartment has ever been sold for. In reality, James said, the apartment covers just under 11,000 square feet. That’s still huge; the Fifth Avenue triplex is still worth a lot of money. But why would he lie about such an easily checkable fact as square footage?
But it doesn’t take Sigmund Freud to suspect a psychological explanation for Trump’s alleged lies, as well. Trump has always seemed to be compelled to exaggerate his accomplishments, even when there was no rational reason to do so. James’s investigators examined Trump’s declared valuations for 23 properties, including his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago; the hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House that he recently sold; and several of his golf courses. She seemed to make a point of mentioning these marquee holdings and showing, she alleges, that they are not really worth what Trump claims. All that glitters might be gold, but in Trump’s case, it’s only 14-karat.
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