Well, I already agreed with her campaigning on going after Trump being way wrong, so one issue down. The rest of this stuff your just way off base on. And I have a lot of experience with financial statements....have a client worth almost a billion, another who just sold his business for over $500M, so some heavy hitters, and none of them pad their financial statements. Have another client who has roughly 50 commercial property real estate deals and they don't pad theirs either - they fly straight. And I doubt there has every been a case where somebody did it as egregiously as Trump did....which is probably how he got away with it.
Banks certainly do care about financial statements. Why do you think they require them from everybody and its what keeps CPA's in business. Now you can make the argument that the bank should be doing their own appraisals since these statements where not audited......but I think this is where Trump's scam paid off. He overstated things soooo much that the banks likely didn't feel like they needed to do independent appraisals because there was so much equity (their mistake, but still fraud). The banks price their loans based on the associated risk with the particular loan........so what Trump did is subject the banks to a lot more risk than they realized and should have charged him for. He paid them back this time......but we are talking about a guy who has gone bankrupt 6 or 7 times before.....so their is a long history of banks/investors not being paid back by Trump businesses. Most of those had to do with his casino's, but it was still Trump.
No crime? If somebody tries to kill you with a AR-15 but misses, was that a crime? I mean, your not hurt? A car going 200 MPH but not hitting anybody.....no crime? LOL......this one your just dead wrong on the facts.....I can go ask my lawyer son, but I already know the answer. You don't need to prove damages to prove the crime occurred. You nail the offender who is driving 200 MPH before he hits somebody. That's what they are doing here and its a black and white issue.
What has really been surprising to me....and really has been since the beginning with Trump......is how you guys consistently make excuses for him. The democrats do plenty wrong and have done a lot wrong with Trump......but the guy overstated his financials by a friggin BILLLION dollars. How does that not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.