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greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 19 th, 2023 at 8:03pm: Bobby. wrote on Mar 19 th, 2023 at 8:00pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 19 th, 2023 at 7:58pm: Bobby. wrote on Mar 19 th, 2023 at 7:46pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 19 th, 2023 at 7:39pm: Bobby. wrote on Mar 19 th, 2023 at 7:36pm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Donald_TrumpWealth of Donald Trump The net worth of Donald Trump is not publicly known. Various news organizations have attempted to estimate his wealth. Forbes estimates it at $3.2 billion as of October 26, 2022,[1] with Trump making much higher claims. Trump received a loan of one million US dollars from his father, and he has also made money from real estate ventures, hotels, casinos, golf courses,fundraising and Trump-branded products including neckties and steaks. Says who, Bobby? Who reported that figure? Would you like a hint? Forbes. And who reported it to Forbes? Ask them: I have.
Here's the truth:
Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes.
Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire.
In May 1984, an official from the Trump Organization called to tell me how rich Donald J. Trump was. I was reporting for the Forbes 400, the magazine’s annual ranking of America’s richest people, for the third year. In the previous edition, we’d valued Trump’s holdings at $200 million, only one-fifth of what he claimed to own in our interviews. This time, his aide urged me on the phone, I needed to understand just how loaded Trump really was.
The official was John Barron — a name we now know as an alter ego of Trump himself. When I recently rediscovered and listened, for first time since that year, to the tapes I made of this and other phone calls, I was amazed that I didn’t see through the ruse: Although Trump altered some cadences and affected a slightly stronger New York accent, it was clearly him. “Barron” told me that Trump had taken possession of the business he ran with his father, Fred. “Most of the assets have been consolidated to Mr. Trump,” he said. “You have down Fred Trump [as half owner] . . . but I think you can really use Donald Trump now.” Trump, through this sockpuppet, was telling me he owned “in excess of 90 percent” of his family’s business. With all the home runs Trump was hitting in real estate, Barron told me, he should be called a billionaire.
At the time, I suspected that some of this was untrue. I ran Trump’s assertions to the ground, and for many years I was proud of the fact that Forbes had called him on his distortions and based his net worth on what I thought was solid research.
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