I’ll bet there is not one jot or tittle out of place in Trump’s tax return. At his level, fudging isn’t worth the audit hassle. The whole thing is Trump’s briar patch and the dims are B’rer Fox.
People who have never seen a complex personal tax return do not understand them. There is nothing in them other than pass through items from other entities and the few personal contributions not made from a trust, foundation or pass through entity. I have seen returns of a thousand pages where you couldn’t determine a single thing about income sources or expenses because every item rolled into the return on Forms K-1 from hundreds of entities with names like SWAMER SUB0140 or whatnot. I recall a mogul here in Cincinnati who had over a thousand oil drilling entities, each one with no information other than the K-1 line items which are utterly opaque.