BUSTED: Trump told 30 lies in two days during 2007 deposition about his ‘billionaire’ claims
David Ferguson
10 AUG 2016 AT 11:57 ET
In 2007, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was called upon to give a two-day deposition in one of his many lawsuits. Over the course of that testimony, he told an astonishing number of lies that are easily disproven and debunked.
The Washington Post said on Wednesday that the lawsuit began when Trump sued author Timothy O’Brien for defamation when O’Brien’s book TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald said that realistic estimates of the former reality TV star’s net worth would place him in the category of millionaire, not billionaire as he frequently claims.
Trump lost that lawsuit, but not before O’Brien’s legal team turned the tables on the real estate magnate and summoned him for a lengthy deposition regarding his net worth.
It was in this deposition that Trump made his now-notorious pronouncement that he bases his net worth on his “feelings.”
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ccording to the Post, Trump stretched the truth to the breaking point in a number of statements.
“Trump had misstated sales at his condo buildings. Inflated the price of membership at one of his golf clubs. Overstated the depth of his past debts and the number of his employees,” wrote David A. Fahrenthold and Robert O’Harrow Jr.
“Trump’s falsehoods were unstrategic — needless, highly specific, easy to disprove. When caught, Trump sometimes blamed others for the error or explained that the untrue thing really was true, in his mind, because he saw the situation more positively than others did,” the Post continued.
O’Brien said after the lawsuit was settled, “A very clear and visible side effect of my lawyers’ questioning of Trump is that he [was revealed as] a routine and habitual fabulist.”
more:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/busted-trump-told-30-lies-in-two-days-during-2007-deposition-about-his-billionaire-claims/
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