"Um, it was The Donald himself who first made that claim. I guess that makes him a Trump hater?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html?_r=0
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Funny; in the article you linked he doesn't say that.  The only person who did was Hilary.  He did admit (and the quote is fractional and out of context... way to go NYT (:eyeroll:)) that he used tax laws to avoid federal taxes but IN-CONTEXT he was referring to deductions and reducing tax obligations, not "paying zero taxes".  Again the MSM spinning so hard that they tangled up their own feet and fell over.

All of which is moot but a fun exercise in rhetoric.