The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, who covers what might be called the Trump flimflam beat, issued his latest installment Thursday with Jonathan O'Connell about the serial exaggerations, omissions and fabrications Trump used on financial statements to lenders: padding Trump Tower with an extra 10 floors, adding 800 phantom acres to a vineyard, puffing up an estate's value by more than $200 million, ignoring debts and inflating his net worth by $4 billion.
But experts said he might get away with it without being charged with fraud — because he was so bold and outrageous in his dishonesty that nobody would be fooled.