right? correct. i mean there are ads for trump the game. and the tagline is he donated the money to charity and. of course, he did not donate any of it. but he was allowed to go on as this kind of larger than life character in new york. and i want to get your sense of how moments like today might be hitting someone who s central being it is tied to the notion of wealth and success. we talk a lot about how trump s terrified of being a loser. but in the filing, then you are 80 quotes a forbes magazine article that said no one has been fixated on his net worth on a year-end basis than donald trump. he is a subject he cares about to the depths of his soul. right, any spent a lot of time we d allaying and bludgeoning the forbes people each year to try to get him on higher and higher on that list. sometimes under pretending to be his publicist, and calling him up, and badgering him. it is clearly beyond his
i suppose from there, one could even go to the supreme court. but this is such a loser, such a losing issue. i have to imagine even those decisions would be done very swiftly because of the recognized harm to national security that occurs every day, every minute that goes by the justice department does not have the ability to investigate the disclosure of these documents. you know, trump clearly was willing to roll the dice here, elise s legal representatives were. they got a very favorable ruling initially from aileen cannon, the 11th circuit, six of the 11 judges seated on that court are trump appointees. perhaps i thought the mouth was in their favor. but as the documents show us, being a trump appointee did not seem to matter here. two of the judges who ruled on this for trump pointy s. when he was an obama appointee. this was a pro curium order, which means no particular judge takes credit for this. that is meaningful, do you think, barb? in terms of showing traditional
doing business in the city. and to trump, that feels like a blow like no other. and i think that s right. and stop his children from doing this. yes. and we all saw, or some of the saw bill barr on fox news. and oh, why did she drag the children into it. the 38, 40, and 44 year old children who were ev and chair of the company, respectively. as ridiculous. new york, i mean, laetitia james is not a new york city, but she is certainly the state ag. and there is something in fiction that would be almost two path, that this is perhaps where the walls begin to really close close in on him. one does wonder how a man i talk about this with chris hayes, how he is managing these parallel investigations and fundraising off of all of it with a sick draw at the same time. this one, though, will be somewhat harder to fund-raise.
spy magazine, great and carter and , recognize trump by what he was, an aggrandizement bully with a curious relation to the truth and his supposed wealth and business hakeem. and now more than three decades later, trump is finally facing for his misdeeds. new york attorney general accusing trump of systematically misstating the value of his properties to the tune of billions, purely for financial gain. and it is fitting that it s happening right here in new york, a place that made trump could now and may come. i can think of no one better to talk top two in this moment then kurt andersen, one of the founding editors of spy magazine, and the author of evil geniuses, the unmaking of america. and kurt andersen joins us now, it s good to see you. i mean, that article should be decided in letitia james s lawsuit. it outlines everything he has done for 30 years, kurt. my question is, why did it take so long? it is extraordinary. and it s one thing to be able to say, 31
worth a cool 75 million. but, when it came to assessed its values as one of his assets, trump pretended that none of those restrictions existed. and the whole place could be developed and sold for residential use. he said that mar-a-lago is worth about 75 million, but 739 million. literally ten times its value. this investigation revealed that trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth. to achieve, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of new york. claiming you have money that you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal, it is the art of the steal. and there could not been any different rules for different people in this country or in this state. former presidents are no different. letitia james said today that trump s conduct appeared to violate not just new york law but federal law as well. specifically laws against fake fraud. she says there may have been tax violations as well. so she has referred the evidence to the sdny, the u.s