Former Forbes Reporter Says Donald Trump Once Posed As A Trump Organization Official & Lied About His Own Wealth!

Donald Trump was always desperate for prestige and had no problem lying to get it. This was confirmed by a former Forbes reporter who claimed that Trump actually posted as a Trump Organization executive in a phone interview and lied about his fortune to crack the Forbes 400 list.
In a Washington Post story, Jonathan Greenberg alleged that Trump called him in the ’80s pretending to be “John Barron,” a purported executive with The Trump Organization. (OMG, is that where Barron Trump got his name from!?)
Greenberg said that despite Trump’s actual net worth as a real estate developer being less than $5 million in 1982, the magazine had listed it as $100 million for its first ever Forbes 400 list.
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Two years later, Greenberg received a phone call from “Barron” after Forbes listed Trump’s holdings at $200 million in its previous edition. The reporter said that Trump, as Barron, “lied” in saying Trump owned all of his father Fred Trump‘s assets, which he did not until his father died in 1999.
Oh Lordy, we hope there are tapes… oh wait — there are!
In the audio published by The Post, “Barron” can be heard telling Greenberg:

“Most of the assets have been consolidated to Mr. Trump, you know, because you have down Fred Trump, and I’d like to talk to you off the record if I can, just to make your thing easier… I think you can really use Donald Trump now and you can just consolidate it. I think last year someone showed me the article and he had two hundred and two hundred and the other’s been pretty well consolidated now for the most part.”

Greenberger wrote in The Post that he decided to publish the off-the-record chat because the “intent to deceive” released him from his “good-faith pledge.”
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The most alarming takeaway from this, the reporter added, is that Trump continued to use the same lies and deception on all fronts of his career. He wrote:

“This was a model Trump would use for the rest of his career, telling a lie so cosmic that people believed that some kernel of it had to be real. The tactic landed him a place he hadn’t earned on the Forbes list ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ and led to future accolades, press coverage and deals. It eventually paved a path toward the presidency.”

We honestly don’t even want to imagine how many other times he’s done shit like this.
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