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The End of Trump Inc.

The courts are finally catching up to a man who has long behaved as though there would never be any consequences for his deceptions.
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“That is a fantasy world, not the real world.”

So wrote Arthur Engoron, a New York State judge, in that threatens the heart of Donald Trump’s business empire. Engoron was referring in particular to arguments offered by the former president’s attorneys in the case, but his words describe many of the details of the case—such as the valuations of Trump’s properties and even the square footage he claimed they

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