President Donald Trump repeatedly lied for decades about his net worth to attain a higher spot on the famed Forbes 400 list and brand himself as New York's wealthiest real estate developer, according to a reporter he encountered in 1982 for the magazine’s first such list. Forbes’s inaugural wealth list, the reporter wrote in a story published Friday by The Washington Post. Trump reportedly cited a supposed 80 percent stake in the Trump Organization’s real estate empire, consisting of an apparent 23,000 apartments across Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. He also said he had vast control of the property, not his father, Fred Trump. read more https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lied-wealth-decades-reporter-155417260.html