I don't remember that.
I do remember Mitt Romney paying 13% on his $46 million dollar income the year before he ran while I had to pay 28% on far, far, far less income that same year.
(And for all the doubters out there, yes, that is effective rates not comparing marginal rates to effective rates).
We can debate the fairness of the tax laws all day long, I'd probably agree with a lot of what you say. It's always funny to me when life long politicians complain about things like that because they, and their cronies, created those laws. It really left a mark when Harry Reid was challenged on what had been proven to be a lie and not only did he show no remorse, he gleamed with the "he didn't win did he?" response.
I would be willing to bet Trump has exploited the bankruptcy and tax laws to stack the deck in his favor his whole adult life. That doesn't make him stupid, it makes the people who made those laws stupid.
It might make him sleazy, but I was decades ahead of everyone else on that one. I remember in the 80's bitching at people who thought Trump was some brilliant business man and thought he was Sam Walton rich. At the time Trump in so much debt he wasn't even Jostate rich.