And he was caught talking out of both sides of his mouth. But it's not just the thing itself. It's the magnitude. We're not talking 10-20% here. We're talking multiples. That goes well beyond Trump's "truthful hyperbole" and into fraud territory. Bank fraud. Insurance fraud. And so on.
He can demand anything. He can provide anything. The county is gonna do what it see's fit. Unless he bribed them.
This is the reality... ProPublica covered this in-depth.
Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say
Five former city employees and a former Trump Organization employee say the company used middlemen to pay New York City tax assessors to lower building assessments and pay less taxes in the 1980s and 1990s.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-company-paid-bribes-to-reduce-property-taxes-assessors-say