When someone says the floor area of an apartment is 30,000 sq ft when it is really only 11,000 sq ft to inflate the property's value, it's dishonest. When the higher value is used to obtain a loan from a bank, it's fraud.
Trump's legal troubles have nothing to do with weaponisation of the legal system, the mantra of his supporters. It's everything to do with the fact he's a crook.
Orders of magnitude more than Nixon.
BTW, the noun you butchered is spelled EPITOME.