On 17 Feb 2022, Brennus <
suck...@dick.com> posted some
news:agct0h5mtgnsr33ln...@4ax.com:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:28:40 -0800, Rudy Canoza <
notg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>The former president has spent decades inventing facts and figures to
>>suit his needs. Now, dropped by his accountants, he is making new
>>claims.
>>
>>By Mike McIntire
>>Feb. 16, 2022
>>
>>On Tuesday evening, former President Donald J. Trump, rattled by news
>>that his longtime accountants had declared that years of his financial
>>statements were not reliable, issued a statement of self-defense with
>>new claims about his wealth.
>>
>>These, too, did not add up.
>>
>>In a rambling emailed message, Mr. Trump referred to a “June 30, 2014
>>Statement of Financial Condition” prepared by the accounting firm,
>>Mazars USA, showing that the year before his first presidential run
>>his net worth had been $5.8 billion. But that is not what he said back
>>then.
>>
>>When he declared his candidacy in 2015, he produced what he called his
>>“Summary of Net Worth as of June 30, 2014” with a very different
>>number: $8.7 billion. A month later, he upped the ante, releasing a
>>statement pronouncing that his “net worth is in excess of TEN BILLION
>>DOLLARS.”
>>
>>The shape-shifting valuations, even in the face of mounting legal
>>peril with Mazars’ decision to sever ties and disavow its past
>>financial statements, get to the core of a problem for Mr. Trump. He
>>has spent a lifetime bending reality to his will, often making it up
>>as he went along, inventing facts and figures to support his needs in
>>the moment. In fact, in his Tuesday email he suggested the intangible
>>value of the “Trump brand” was actually worth an extra $3 billion in
>>2014.
>>
>>“My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with markets and
>>with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings,” he testified
>>in 2007 as part of his unsuccessful lawsuit over a book that suggested
>>he was not really a billionaire.
>>
>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/business/trump-wealth-mazars.html
>>
>>Hartung says that Trump's net worth is whatever Trump "feels" it is.
>>Trump might say his net worth is $X, and half an hour say it's
>>actually $X * 2, and Hartung will go along with it.
>>
>>In fact, there is an excellent chance Trump is not a billionaire at
>>all.
>
>
> Who cares? Now explain where Biden's family and Piglosi get their
> money.
I'd like to add the Clintons to the same list please.