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When my lawyers inquired about how Trump calculated his net worth, he said his self-assessment went “up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings.” He noted later that “even my own feelings affect my value to myself.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
"During the litigation, my lawyers got their hands on an assessment of Trump’s wealth that German banking giant Deutsche Bank AG had pulled together in 2004. Deutsche figured Trump had a net worth of about $788 million, even though he told them he was worth $3 billion."
Investigators may want to examine why President Trump and his accountant, Allen Weisselberg, have gone to such great lengths, and for so long, to inflate the president's wealth when talking to the media, insurers, and banks: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… 
It's not complex if all you want to do is add extra zeros to the value of everything you own: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
And Deutsche Bank, a German banking giant often mired in scandal, has maintained a long-standing business relationship with Trump even when other banks walked away: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
In the meantime, as the NYT noted, myriad curiosities remain about the “symbiotic bond” between “a real estate mogul made toxic by polarizing rhetoric and a pattern of defaults, and a bank with intractable financial problems and a history of misconduct.” nytimes.com/2019/03/18/bus…
"That two-decades-long relationship" between Deutsche and Trump "is coming under scrutiny," as the NYT also reported -- nearly two years ago: nytimes.com/2017/07/19/bus…
“When you have political appointees making decisions about banks that the president owes a lot of money to, it looks terrible.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business
“Did the Russian government, through business figures close to the Kremlin seek to court Donald Trump...and did candidate Trump’s financial exposure via Deutsche Bank or other private loans constitute a point of leverage?” motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
