“As far as I know, and that only goes through late ’96, he didn’t understand the code,” said Jack Mitnick, a former tax adviser for Trump, in an interview with NBC’s TODAY. “Nor would he have had the time and the patience to learn the provisions. That’s a lifetime of experience.”…

Mitnick, however, told the TODAY show Tuesday that Trump was “not at all” involved in the 1995 filing.

“He was interested in the bottom line, not the detail,” Mitnick said. “Staff under my supervision did his returns – he had no involvement in the preparation.”

There is nothing in the Times report to say whether Trump used tax rules to avoid paying any federal income taxes following the 1995 filing.