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Guarantee of a gilded life

President Trump has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, repeatedly saying, “I built what I built myself.”

But in reviewing over 100,000 pages of records, an investigation by The New York Times found that Mr. Trump’s finances were deeply intertwined with, and dependent on, his father’s wealth. By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200,000 a year from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8.

In all, Mr. Trump received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire. What’s more, a large portion of that money came to Mr. Trump through the use of dubious tax schemes in the 1990s, including outright fraud.

A lawyer for Mr. Trump said, “The facts upon which The Times bases its false allegations are extremely inaccurate.”