AkaSci 🛰
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"In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, FL, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just 7 weeks later, he got another mortgage for a neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.
In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, they were used as investment properties and rented out."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences
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AkaSci 🛰️@AkaSci@fosstodon.org
“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the DOJ,” said Kathleen Engel, a Suffolk University law professor and leading expert on mortgage finance. “Trump has deemed that this type of misrepresentation is sufficient to preclude someone from serving the country.”
LoL!
As the saying goes for trump and other authoritarians - "For my friends and me everything, for my enemies the law."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences
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