- Since at least 2004, Trump has issued financial statements boasting of his billions in assets.
- The most recent was sent out in 2021, just as NY officials began publicly calling them fraudulent.
- A fraud monitor now says Trump “does not intend to develop any estimations of value” going forward.
Sorry, but there’s a very long history of people conflating wealth with god’s blessing (and therefore righteousness, moral integrity and generally being “good”).
Since at least as long as the book of Job (early Bronze Age?) as the sudden reverses in Job’s fortunes were seen as displeasure etc.
(The book of job is a Bronze Age attempt by a narcissist to explain the problem of evil. Basically? “You can’t possibly understand me.”)
Ah, I mean the grift that’s as old as time, not this specific one.