I won't argue that, of course, but isn't that an admission that Trump took advantage of this, for years (decades)? Do you honestly believe he didn't know what the square footage of his own property was? I won't say that's impossible, I'd just suggest it's unlikely. An obscure property, perhaps, but his own residence?
the judge in this farce of a case had to issue a summary judgement instead of going to trial
I'm not agreeing with the actions of the judge, or whether this is criminal or not, but rather the question of what Trump did is ethical, or not. I know many don't care about that, anymore, but I do. If you will lie about one thing, you will lie about something else.
The property has been profiled in various architecture, style, real estate, etc. publications over the years.
I help manage a commercial property on behalf of a client/friend of mine. Between the original title, the accompanying architectural drawings, the bank's mortgage records, and the local property tax records, we have FOUR different sizes of the building listed in these documents.
You really think that banks don’t do their own due diligence when making loans to an owner of a property with an estimated value of $500,000,000? You really think banks are as gullible as you seem to be when posting articles from CNN, AP and The Hill?