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On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 21:36:55 -0400, shawn
<nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:50:26 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>
>>On Mar 25, 2024 at 5:43:03 PM PDT, "BTR1701" <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wait a minute. Trump's civil fraud verdict was based on the notion he
>>> systematically gave an incorrect valuation to his properties in order to
>>> deceive lenders (even though all lenders were repaid and none of them ever
>>> made complaints against him and all said they'd do business with him again).
>>> 
>>> Now, the New York Times admits that reaching a proper valuation for Trump's
>>> buildings is a "guessing game".
>>> 
>>> https://ibb.co/tJkZL5d
>>> 
>>> Untangling Trump's Real Estate
>>> Donald Trump owes $454 million by Monday or risks losing some properties. But
>>> experts say valuing the buildings would be a guessing game.
>>
>>Even CNN is now reporting that Mar-a-Lago is worth north of $200 million when
>>the judge in Trump's trial assigned it a value of only $18 million, a number
>>he basically pulled out of his ass, based on nothing but his own biases, to
>>support a verdict against Trump.
>
>That seems unlikely when you consider that there are restriction in
>place that prevent anyone from doing anything else with the property.
>Now, as I understand it, if they could tear it down and divide it up
>into smaller properties for homes then you might get that value up in
>the hundreds of millions.
>

Are you disputing CNN's statement?  I hope you include their response
when you contacted them to correct it.

>>
>>https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1770974120987029504/vid/avc1/480x270/8-kFmV79hY_BOfO7.mp4?tag=14
>>
>>Some of indictments and prosecutions against Trump have merit (classified
>>docs, etc.), but this New York case is nothing but a blatant use of the
>>judicial system to wage a transparent political hit job on someone they just
>>don't like for his politics.
>>
>
>Not as I understand it because there's changing valuations and then
>there's changing valuations. Trump played with the valuations on a
>level that no one else I've heard of doing. It's just amazing to me
>that no one called him on it. Though looking at some of Louis
>Rossman's videos it is clear that exaggerating with real estate is a
>NY thing as he had multiple videos showing people renting commercial
>real estate. They would say the space was 2000 square feet but if you
>measured it there would only be 1000 square feet of space available.
>It's not even that there was space that you couldn't use. The real
>estate agents just invented extra space. Though if they were doing it
>on Trump's level they might say that 1000 square foot of space was
>actually 20-30 thousand square feet of space.

Citations required. You have a future as a New York judge.