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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Meyerson on TAP

The Law and Donald Trump

The Mar-a-Lago gang will need more lawyers.

As bad days in court go, Donald Trump had himself a doozy yesterday.
Actually, it was a bad day in

**courts**: In New York, state Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump
for serial misrepresentation of his assets, while in Atlanta, a
three-judge federal appellate panel (two of those judges Trump
appointees) unanimously reversed a lower court's ruling that had
blocked the Justice Department from continuing its investigation of
Trump's post-presidential possession of classified documents. While
James's action is a civil suit, she also made clear that the evidence
she'd collected was available to the Manhattan DA and the Justice
Department should they be interested in initiating criminal prosecutions
for fraud and tax evasion.

And the evidence she'd amassed sure looks dispositive. I can't
imagine how you can evade the charge of asset inflation (undertaken to
get bigger bank loans and insurance at lower rates) when you claimed
your 10,000-square-foot apartment was a 30,000-square-foot apartment. Or
when you gave inflated valuations to the banks and deflated valuations
to tax agencies for the same property. Day is often night in Trump-land,
but claiming that midnight is noon at the same time you claim midnight
is midnight does push the envelope.

Deliberate numerical fictions are inextricably part of Trump's DNA.
His inaugural crowd was the biggest ever; he won re-election in 2020 by
millions of votes. On that latter claim, he's managed to bring along
the majority of Republican voters and elected officials, and on the
others, I don't doubt that he can convince those Republicans to echo
him should he insist upon it. I await Kevin McCarthy's declaration
that Trump's Fifth Avenue apartment really is 30,000 square feet, and
if McCarthy comes under attack from Jim Jordan for being insufficiently
pro-Trump, then it's really 40,000 square feet!

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Correction: Some numerical fictions are the product of just plain
mistakes, and I certainly made one in Tuesday's On TAP when I wrote
that the recent Hart Research poll undertaken for the Worker Power
Coalition showed that young voters in nine swing states favored the
Democratic candidate for Senate by a 48 percent to 42 percent margin. I
was reading the wrong columns. The 48-to-42 margin was for all voters;
among voters ages 18 through 39, the margin was 57 percent to 29
percent. My sincere apologies to the millennials and Gen Zers.

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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