For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street.
ProPublica obtained the property tax documents using New York’s Freedom of Information Law. The documents were public because Trump appealed his property tax bill for the buildings every year for nine years in a row, the extent of the available records.
He probably saw the Botham Jean/Amber Guyger hug, and instead of the usual human reaction to it, immediately thought: “This is great, everyone has been talking about it for days. I need to get something like this, it will be amazing for my ratings.”
First thing I thought of was when Obama had a beer with that man who’d locked himself out of his own home and the cop who arrested him for B&E (he tried to get into his house by climbing through a window).
But that’s probably too far in the past for Trump.
