. . . 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.