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that he was actually worth, trump testified, under oath, quote, my net worth fluctuates and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings. feelings. donald trump lost that suit. hard to believe. i know. sometimes, donald trump needs something to backup whatever his feelings are about his net worth. he needs a piece of paper to show his sellers so that he can show some real estate, lender to get a loan, or, you know, to the american people so you get elected president. that s when he turned to something called the statement of financial condition, prepared by his longtime accounting firm, mazars. this he could show to potential lender or seller and say see, this is prepared in black and white. i, donald trump, and rich. you can imagine just how donald trump felt this week when his longtime accounting firm, mazars, announced they were quitting. and that they were renounce
to trump that night says trump s one rule was don t say i have less money than i say i do. his kids refer game, his wife was very game. this, money, net worth. this is trump s kryptonite. he wants sued a rip harder for daring to write that trump was not, in fact, a billionaire. he pursued the case for years. when trump sat down for a deposition in that suit, and the lawyers tried to pin down that he was actually worth, trump testified, under oath, quote, my net worth fluctuates and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings. feelings. donald trump lost that suit. hard to believe. i know. sometimes, donald trump needs something to backup whatever his feelings are about his net worth. he needs a piece of paper to show his sellers so that he can show some real estate, lender to get a loan, or, you know, to
but now the world can see what these men were saying behind closed doors, the question remains, what will it mean for the jury? can the prosecution prove the statement that they made in their opening argument quote, if armada arbery had been white, he would have went out on iran, check out a cool house under construction and been home in time for sunday dinner. instead, he was running for his life for no reason other than the color of his skin. joining us now is could ve christopher bruce. mr. bruce, thank you for joining us. thank you. i just gotta go right to the messages that we heard. do you feel like these are the smoking gun in a hate crimes trial. is this enough to prove the case that this was a hate crime? as we know, hate crimes is very hard to prove in different areas and different aspects of it. he s just add on to the factors that forced the trial within a.
saying a decades worth of statements of financial condition that they had prepared for trump. those statements, quote, according to mazars, should no longer be relied upon. we ve come to this conclusion based, in part, upon the findings made by the new york attorney general. new york attorney general, letitia james, has been investigating trump s business practices, in particular, whether he may have fraudulently missed rest presented his assets to obtain loans and tax benefits. trump s attracting accounting firm. she was like, we are out of here. donald trump s reaction to his accounting firm, basically saying, we can only vouch for trump saying he is as rich as he says he is. well, it was about what you would expect. trump put out what maybe the longest most rantings statement he has ever released since leaving office. the statement said, i m paraphrasing here, i swear i m really rich, even richer than