Donald Trump’s total assets on certain statements of financial condition were “reverse-engineered” to fit the former president’s requested totals, Michael Cohen testified Tuesday at the New York Attorney General’s business fraud trial.

“We would take this specific list of assets and we would figure out which specific line to increase the number, again to reverse-engineer it into the total asset that Mr. Trump sought,” Cohen told the court.

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