why donald trump needed these lower interest loans. the argument has been had he submitted these statements of financial condition in order to get better rates a at the banks. and they went through some of the spending that donald trump has been doing recently. there s been a lot of renovations at three properties. he put $250 million into.edu rattle. and the old post office he spent was $225 million on renovations. the picture that the attorney general painted was that donald trump was, in fact, facing a cash crunch. this is important for two reasons. one is the argument is that he needed that, because his net worth would have fallen below a certain point he wouldn t be able to g lending potentially.