Pence: "He used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly"

[Tactical Peek]

From October 2016

. . . Mitnick worked for Trump and his father, Fred Trump, for nearly 30 years, from the 1960s until 1996. He told “Inside Edition” that he recognized the tax returns because at the time, his computer couldn’t print a number as large as the loss Trump declared in his 1995 returns: $915,729,293. “The numbers had to be put in there with a typewriter,” he said.

Yet even as Mitnick’s interview was airing on TV, Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was busy hailing Trump’s “brilliant” exploitation of the tax code. “He used the tax code just the way it’s supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly,” Pence said.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jack-mitnick-trump-accountant-taxes_us_57f52344e4b015995f2c6a89

[benld74]

1. Pence your barrel time coming

[ChoppinBroccoli]

2. Funny How It's Different When Poor People Use Legal Loopholes To Bilk The Government Out Of Money

[jmowreader]

3. Maybe so, Mike...

...but your hero also lost a billion dollars in one year.

There are entire counties in Indiana where the residents’ combined salaries don’t come close to what Trump wrote off his taxes.

Think about this for a minute: If the entire population of the five poorest counties in Indiana were to hand every cent they made that year to Donald Trump and tell him to use it to reduce his losses, he still would have reported a tax loss...and you’re entrusting this individual with the federal budget.

[Afromania]

4. I absolutely hate that "its legal" explanation for skirting taxes.

That's one of the biggest reasons we are where we are.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. no, he used illegal tax fraud

[HAB911]

6. Maybe the NYAG will have the final say about that

LOL

[unitedwethrive]

7. The talking. That should be the main focus - trumps entire persona is a lie.

All the self-promotion and talk of being self-made has been stripped away to reveal what he really is. A lying, cheating, privaledged womanizer who didn’t merely start on third base, he was born already on home plate.

[WhiteTara]

8. Pence's family left a wake of destruction

when they closed their gas company. Sorry, you have to look this one up; I'm on my way out.

[matt819]

9. Keep licking, Mike

If you think you're going to get a clean bill of health from the Mueller investigation, you can keep on licking when the two of you are in prison.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Someone predicted that this is how they would twist it.

Cheating on your taxes is defined as brilliant...by the vice-president.