Forbes responds to Trump’s demand for an apology after he was removed from the wealthiest list: Following his removal from Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans for the second time in three years, former US President Donald Trump “demanded” an apology from the publication. Enoughinfo.com
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It said that Trump’s net worth had decreased by $600 million from the previous year. When Forbes published its list last week. Although he was taken off the list in 2021, Trump had been on it since the 1990s.
“I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes magazine,” Trump wrote on Wednesday, October 11 on Truth Social, the reportedly struggling social media platform he set up after being expelled from mainstream platforms over the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Forbes responds to Trump’s demand for an apology after he was removed from the wealthiest list
In response, Trump lamented the “really dumb writers assigned to hit me hard”. And boasted about his enormous lead in Republican presidential polls while facing 91 criminal accusations.
He filed a complaint against the “writer, Dan Alexander, for the numerous false and defamatory articles [Forbes] have written about me on Wednesday.”
Alexander is the author of White House Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Business, published in 2020. Alexander is a senior editor at Forbes.
He replied to Trump on Twitter. Man Utd staff reportedly leaves the club following Greenwood and Antony issue
“Hey Donald Trump, if you want to point out a single false fact in any of the articles I’ve published about you – or in the book I wrote about you – feel free. In the meantime, I’m going to keep reporting – and carefully fact-checking every word I publish.“
Trump said in his tweet that Forbes “cooperated” with Letitia James, the Democratic attorney general of New York state, in her lawsuit against the firm, Trump, and his adult sons.
In addition, some analysts have suggested that Trump’s use of the epithet “racist and incompetent” may be a racial dog whistle. However, James has already prevailed in a pre-trial partial verdict in the case, when the judge found that Trump had committed fraud by inflating the worth of his assets.
Making allusion to his campaign motto, “Make America Great Again,” Trump also made the false claim that Forbes was “owned by the communist Chinese Government, and China will do anything to stop Maga.”
