We are not in the good old days of a constitutional republic, and need to act accordingly.

https://www.pitcofflawgroup.com/blog/the-elements-of-fraud-in-new-york-a-guide/

We have entered the non-reality phase of the country, where an exaggeration=lie=fraud. A man can have a vagina. A woman can have a penis, etc., etc., etc. The left has so twisted accepted definitions of so much of our language as to make the Humpty Dumpty blush.

This deserves scorn, not anything approaching how McCarthy writes about the case.

As to the 200% figure, according to what McCarthy wrote Trump overstated the size of his apartment closer to 300%.

By the way, has anyone asked President Trump how he could claim his apartment was 30,000 sq ft?

How many years has President Trump overstated the valuations of his properties? 20 years? 30 years? 40 years? Why are they attempting to put him out of business now?

President Trump could have ridden off the world stage and would have probably been left alone. Thankfully he’s had the courage to highlight the utter corruption of our political system. We are seeing first-hand the corruption in our electoral system, corruption in our political system, and corruption in our legal system.

The values stated in the article may or may not be accurate. The judge is saying they weren’t accurate. Okay, show us where the lenders were harmed.

Fraud – “Fraud is an intentionally deceptive action designed to provide the perpetrator with an unlawful gain or to deny a right to a victim.”

Where is the victim in this case???? Did the lenders not do their due diligence in examining the property values? What the judge is saying is that the lenders were wrong (either stupidly or carelessly) to lend money to the Trump organization even though they never lost a dime. There is no wrongdoing.

You may consider inflating one’s estimates of their net worth as a bad thing, but it’s not a CRIME!! Oh, unless some AG and partisan judge decide to make it a crime.

You’re letting your hatred of Trump bias your judgement about this case.

I have dabbled in real; estate investing over the years. Most lenders want at least two appraisals of property that you want to borrow money on. And I never got to pick the appraisers. My loans were mere pittances compared to the Trump organization. Yet, the lenders did their due diligence. If they don’t do so, they will soon have a portfolio of bad loans and be out of business.

Had Trump stiffed a lender, the lender would have gone after him in court as the AG is now doing. That didn’t happen. Get it through your head – there is no crime involved in this case. It’s a fictitious case made up by partisan legal beagles. It should rightly put all of us, you included, in fear of such a perverted justice system.

From neo’s McCarthy link:

“Engoron finds that, between 2014 and 2021, Trump and his co-defendants overvalued assets by between $812 million and $2.2 billion. And some of the whoppers are jaw-dropping. Trump overstated the 10,996 square feet of his Trump Tower apartment as 30,000 square feet — a 200% inflation that had him pegging its worth as $327 million, at a time when the highest sale for a comparable New York luxury triplex on record was $88 million. A Westchester golf club, appraised over the years at no more (and usually much less) than $56.6 million, was valued in Trump’s SFCs at between $261 million and $291 million — a mark-up of more than 400%. At his Aberdeen property, the Scottish authorities gave him authorization to develop 500 residential homes; Trump’s SFCs listed the number as 2,035, overstating value by £164 million. And so on.

In railing over Engoron’s ruling, Trump and his defenders ridicule the court’s valuation of his prime Palm Beach property, Mar-a-Lago, at a mere $18 million. But — and I know this will shock you — Trump’s account is misleading. The comparatively low value (actually, between $18 million and $27.6 million, computed by objective appraisers, not Engoron) is owed to Mar-a-Lago’s being encumbered by severe use restrictions — e.g., Trump agreed it would be a club, not fully developed beachfront residences.

This won him valuable tax breaks but drastically limited Mar-a-Lago’s market value. Trump knew the objectively appraised value, yet listed Mar-a-Lago on his SFCs at between $425.5 million and $612 million. Though Trump presented an expert who dubiously speculated that the property could be worth $1.5 billion, the law required properties to be valued in accordance with their known restrictions. Engoron is not saying Mar-a-Lago, if sold free and clear, is worth only $18 million; he is saying that Trump inflated what it was worth under existing encumbrances by 2,300%.”