对总统的要求当然要比对平民的要求高。否则不要当总统。
他的loss不是depreciation, 是真的亏钱了,而且亏的是别人的钱,靠equity swap换成自己的loss,在当时就是不符合法律了, 现在法律已经禁止了。
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html
Tax experts who reviewed the newly obtained documents for The New York Times said Mr. Trump’s tax avoidance maneuver, conjured from ambiguous provisions of highly technical tax court rulings, clearly pushed the edge of the envelope of what tax laws permitted at the time. “Whatever loophole existed was not ‘exploited’ here, but stretched beyond any recognition,” said Steven M. Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center who helped draft tax legislation in the early 1990s.