Exaggerations

Although Donald Trump is on trial for inflating his property values, that hasn’t stopped his legal team and his son, Donald Trump Jr., from exaggerating details about his buildings during the trial. Trump Jr. testified again Monday, spending most of his time on the stand recounting various Trump real estate deals in glowing terms — prompting an objection from the state that the testimony was “unfocused to anything relevant” to the case. The former president’s eldest son attempted a charm offensive, beginning with a…

Nikola Corp. CEO Mark Russell told a New York federal jury Monday that he had concerns about joining the electric-truck company because he believed its founder, Trevor Milton, “was prone to exaggeration in public statements.” Testifying in Mr. Milton’s securities-fraud trial, Mr. Russell said that before coming on board in 2019 as president of Nikola, he and Mr. Milton reached an agreement that Mr. Russell would become the chief executive officer if Nikola became a publicly traded company. Mr. Russell…