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With new York Attorney general Letitia James that trump fraudulently inflated his wealth by up to 3. 6 billion to get more favourable loans from lenders. In the ruling, judge engoron writes trumps legal team has responded to the ruling. In a statement, the former president s attorney said the decision comes ahead of the start of a civil trial against mr trump that begins on monday. I spoke about all this earlier with our correspondent peter bowes. Tell us what thejudge said in this ruling. The judge essentially agreed with the Attorney General in new york that has brought this civil case against the former president. Its been a long running investigation into the Business Affairs of mrtrump, his organisation and members of his family. The allegation was that, as the judge has now agreed, the former president acted fraudulently in exaggerating his assets, the value of his golf courses, his apartments, including exaggerating the size of his own apartment in the Trump Building in new york