{"id":168181,"date":"2026-03-19T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:29:25","slug":"turns-out-mar-a-lago-wasnt-overvalued-tish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168181\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns out Mar-a-Lago wasn&#8217;t overvalued, Tish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes just estimated the value of Mar-a-Lago at about $560 million, again exposing the fakery in New York state Attorney General Tish James\u2019 2023 civil fraud persecution of President Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/07\/opinion\/ag-tish-james-fixates-on-political-enemies-ignores-massive-corruption-in-her-home-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James argued<\/a> that Trump had wildly inflated the value of the resort and other properties to get better loan terms from Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic hack Judge Arthur Engoron agreed, calling Trump\u2019s half-billion-dollar estimate for the Palm Beach palace \u201can overvaluation of at least 2,300%, compared to the assessor\u2019s appraisal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bogus assumption No. 1 was that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/10\/02\/judge-implores-media-to-stop-saying-he-valued-mar-a-lago-at-18m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tax assessments reflect real market<\/a> value; No. 2, that a sophisticated global powerhouse like Deutsche Bank would ever take a borrower\u2019s word for what his assets are worth.<\/p>\n<p>As National Review\u2019s Andrew McCarthy notes, Forbes\u2019 new list of billionaires bumped Trump into the ranks of the 1,000 richest people in the world, partly based on valuing the president\u2019s Xanadu in the ballpark of Trump\u2019s \u201coriginal fraudulent\u201d estimate.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 kangaroo-court win over Trump was set back big-time last year when an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/21\/opinion\/court-ruling-to-nix-penalty-in-tish-james-civil-fraud-case-vs-trump-is-the-latest-blow-to-dem-lawfare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeals court tossed<\/a> Engoron\u2019s nearly $400 million fine as \u201cexcessive\u201d and a violation of the Eighth Amendment; unless the state courts are completely corrupted, the entire verdict should be reversed in due course.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Since this case otherwise stands as a huge warning that doing business in New York exposes you to nakedly political lawfare, the state will be far better off when that reversal lands \u2014 ideally, with language harshly slamming James and Engoron for making a travesty of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forbes just estimated the value of Mar-a-Lago at about $560 million, again exposing the fakery in New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48228,153,304,396,398,10123,9,11,10,299],"class_list":["post-168181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-donald-trump","tag-editorial","tag-fraud","tag-letitia-james","tag-mar-a-lago","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}