Overview

• On June 30, Trump accused Forbes senior editor Dan Alexander of writing “inaccurately” about his businesses and called the publication “badly failing.”
• The broadside targeted Forbes articles published this month that detailed the Trump Organization’s long-running inflation of property square footage, which underpinned a $355 million civil fraud judgment.
• Alexander’s reporting also recapped the 2022 New York tax-fraud case that yielded 17 guilty verdicts against the Trump Organization and led to its business ban in the state.
• Recent Forbes pieces examined Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures and revealed that Barron Trump may have earned tens of millions from his father’s crypto projects.
• Forbes has defended the accuracy of its coverage as legal scrutiny of the Trump Organization’s financial practices continues.