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November 02, 2023

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Trump Jr. is asked about financial statements and Trump Tower penthouse apartment size 

From CNN's Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb

Assistant Attorney General Colleen Faherty began questioning Donald Trump Jr. on his second day of testimony by asking about an email from a Forbes Magazine reporting with questions about Donald Trump’s Trump Tower penthouse apartment, along with a number of other topics.

The questions about Trump’s penthouse included whether it truly was the size Trump had claimed in the past, of 33,000 square feet.

“Insane amount of stuff there,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote in an email to Trump Org. executives, including legal counsel Alan Garten and chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, in response to the questions.

Faherty asked Trump Jr. what fact-checking he did on the inquiry, and he responded he did not know that he did anything.

“I don’t know that I would have spent hundreds of questions worth of time answering Forbes Magazine,” Trump Jr. said.

Faherty also showed Trump Jr. his father's 2016 statement of financial condition and the supporting data spreadsheet for that statement.

When asked, Trump Jr. said he did not prepare the statement but may have seen it during preparation for this case, and that he knew nothing about the supporting spreadsheet.

The attorney general's lawsuit has alleged that Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization inflated the value of numerous properties, including Trump's triplex apartment at Trump Tower. Trump's financial statement reflected the true size —just under 11,000 square feet — in all the years after the 2017 Forbes article.

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