one thing is abundantly clear from the case, trump s statement, especially his financial statements often appear quite different from an objective view of the facts. to recap, here s just one example as we discussed last night. in 2005, trump said he was worth $3.5 billion. north fork bank looked at his financials and said, no, only $1.2 billion and deutsche bank said $788 million. now these kind of discrepancies come up over and over again in this deposition. why? let s let trump himself answer that one. when the lawyer asks trump, have you ever lied in public statements about your properties, trump says he tries to be truthful, but, quote, i m no different from a politician running for office. you don t want to say negative things. then the lawyer asks him, have you ever exaggerated in statements about your properties? his response, i think everyone does. i m not so sure about that, full
$3.5 billion. north fork bank looked at his financials and said, no, only $1.2 billion and deutsche bank said $788 million. now these kind of discrepancies come up over and over again in this deposition. why? let s let trump himself answer that one. when the lawyer asks trump, have you ever lied in public statements about your properties, trump says he tries to be truthful, but, quote, i m no different from a politician running for office. you don t want to say negative things. then the lawyer asks him, have you ever exaggerated in statements about your properties? his response, i think everyone does. i m not so sure about that, full disclosure here, my family s in the real estate business in new york, and i know donald. i respect him and even kind of like the bravado he brings to everything that he does, but that doesn t justify not being straight. now let s bring in jeffrey
he used it to try and get loans from north fork bank and deutsche bank. he said he was worth $3.5 billion, norfolk did the math and said, no, only $1.2 billion. deutsche bank said no only $788 million. they accused him of lying about his worth. all we can tell you is this, nothing quite added up. all right, jeff, stay right there. we re going to talk about this for a moment or two. we ll be right back. find a lower price on a tractor or mower,