The business of inflated asset values and Donald Trump has a very long and well documented history.
The problem was the Forbes list. Forbes published an annual list of I believe billionaires. The net worth value for each person on the list was published. Trump always complained that his number was under valued and provided a figure that Forbes always said was significantly over valued.
Forbes always published the value it’s crew determined while also publishing the fact that Trump not only complained but provided an inflated value that was not justified.
This ongoing battle over many years is detailed in the Forbes One Hundredth Anniversary issue published in 2017. There are several other Trump semi derogatory related articles in that issue
So, in essence, the Trump hating New Yorkers ganged up and using the various numbers he provided are having a merry old time beating him up.
So, bottom line......... Trump did it to himself
It doesn’t matter what he said publicly or not. It matters what his accountants, evaluators etc. can prove on a balance of probabilities. If Trump in good faith based his claims on professional valuations that just emphasizes his justified public assertions but even if he disagreed with the financial data either his own or generated from an independent source that makes him culpable of nothing. But i hardly think that Trump ‘cooked the books’ personally or at his direction. Ultimately the banks who provide the financing do their own valuations and their negligence is not his liability.
So you want to hold Forbes up as the bastion of truth. Run with that...
The whole thing is irrelevant. If Trump believes values placed on his property are low he is not alone. He may be right or he may not but it’s an opinion and no one acts w/o getting their own assessment.
Your TDS is showing and it’s ridiculous to suggest that Trump brought illegal & illegitimate procedures on himself by expressing an opinion. The current actions represent malicious prosecution and abuse of process. This includes the ridiculous care of the woman who claims with no evidence she was assaulted in Bergdof Goodmans.
IOW his Bill of Rights protections are forfeit according to you.