Fraud

 NY Times: Ruling Against Trump Cuts to the Heart of His Identity - The finding by a judge in a New York civil case that Donald Trump committed fraud in valuing his real estate properties undermined the narrative of the business career that launched him in politics. By Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer

By effectively branding him a cheat, the decision in the civil proceeding by Justice Arthur F. Engoron undermined Mr. Trump’s relentlessly promoted narrative of himself as a master of the business world...