Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump Loyalist’s Subpoena Is Momentous Turn

Allen Weisselberg going to a grand jury potentially brings Mueller’s probe into the president’s wallet.

July 27, 2018 at 11:00 AM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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In early 2005, at the invitation of Donald Trump, I visited the future president’s corporate headquarters in Manhattan to meet with the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.

We planned to discuss how wealthy Trump was, a subject that was very important to Trump and very confusing to me. During the prior several months, Trump had told me he was worth anywhere from $1.7 billion to $5 billion. A brochure left on my nightstand when I visited Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach club, advised that his net worth was $9.5 billion.