Donald Trump sat at the defence table and a screen in front of him lit up with an image of himself under the headline “Avoids Responsibility”.
He listened with pursed lips as a small, neat-looking lawyer for the state of New York accused him of vastly overvaluing his three-floor flat in Trump Tower, the skyscraper that was the foundation stone of his property empire, exaggerating the worth of his other buildings and golf courses, and allegedly generating at least $100 million by lying about his empire.
On the screen, showing documents and evidence being presented to the court, he watched a clip of his former fixer Michael Cohen say that he had done this because “he wanted to be higher on the Forbes list” of
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