Especially with taxes, the area between “creative” and “fraudulent” is very murky.

I also doubt Trump himself has a distinction between the two based on every single account of the man I have heard.

And he’s been busted a few times in the past for doing verrrrry similar shady things; but there are different rules when you’re rich and you can just pay a fine and send a lawyer to jail instead (not a political comment; this works for the rich on both sides).