Is Trump the Crook The New York AG Says He Is?

I have just finished reading parts of the 220-page lawsuit filed by the New York State Attorney General against a former United States President who is now just another business guy out there trying to make a buck. And what the lawsuit basically says is that this particular business guy, whose name happens to be Donald Trump, tried to make his bucks by telling a whole bunch of lies about what he was worth and what the properties he owns are worth.

I used to lie all the time when I was running my gun shop. Someone would come into the shop, ask me how business was doing, and I would always say things were great. There were some days when business was really great. There were also days when I shouldn’t have bothered to open the store. But when anyone asked how things were going, they were always going great.

Every year I had to sign two documents which contained information about how much I was actually selling in the business and how much the business was worth. One document was the commercial tax return which went to the IRS. The other was a form I sent to my bank because I had borrowed money from them to pay for some renovations and the loan required me to give them an annual financial report.

Now the good news was that the only people who ever saw these documents besides me were a staff person at the bank and a staff person who worked for the IRS. So, I didn’t have to worry about what anyone would think about my business if revenues went up or revenues went down.