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S.E. Cupp: Donald ‘I’m Really Rich’ Trump needs a bailout

10 4
22.03.2024

“Here’s the good news. I’m very rich.”

That was 2015 Donald Trump, who spent much of that year bragging about his immense wealth as he mounted a then unlikely run for president.

“I’m the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far,” he said then. “Ross Perot isn’t successful like me. [Mitt] Romney — I have a Gucci store that’s worth more than Romney.”

He regularly threw out numbers like $9 and $10 billion in net worth, and had attempted to sue folks like Timothy O’Brien, author of “Trump Nation: The Art of Being Donald,” for suggesting otherwise. (He estimated Trump’s wealth was closer to $250 million.) Then, Forbes put him closer to $4 billion.

And despite promising in 2015 to release his tax returns if he ran for president, he repeatedly refused, filing lawsuit after lawsuit to keep them from becoming public.

Even at Forbes’ current estimate of $2.6 billion — a quarter of what he boasted in 2015 — there’s no arguing Trump is rich, just not as rich as he says.

But importantly, despite Trump’s vast fortune, he continues to shamelessly grift off the American people.

Now that he’s facing a $454 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, Trump is looking to........

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