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Donald Trump masqueraded as a spokesman to brag about himself
www.washingtonpost.com ^ | 5/13/16 | Marc Fisher

Posted on 05/13/2016 6:08:23 AM PDT by CaptainK

The voice is instantly familiar; the tone, confident, even cocky; the cadence, distinctly Trumpian. The man on the phone vigorously defending Donald Trump says he’s a media spokesman named John Miller, but then he says, “I’m sort of new here,” and “I’m somebody that he knows and I think somebody that he trusts and likes” and even “I’m going to do this a little, part-time, and then, yeah, go on with my life.”

A recording obtained by The Washington Post captures what New York reporters and editors who covered Trump’s early career experienced in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s: calls from Trump’s Manhattan office that resulted in conversations with “John Miller” or “John Barron” — public-relations men who sound precisely like Trump himself — who indeed are Trump, masquerading as an unusually helpful and boastful advocate for himself, according to the journalists and several of Trump’s top aides.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump; trump2016; trumparticle; wapotrumparticle
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To: CaptainK

oh what journalism!

I expect Trump to drop out of the race any minute now!


21 posted on 05/13/2016 6:23:06 AM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: CaptainK

So............who cares one way or the other. I can tell you one thing for sure. As the Washington Post makes a total buffoon out itself over the next few months...it will only assist and aid DJT to become stronger and gain more supporters. The entire USA media & ruling political establishments of both major political parties....still do not get it.

The American people enmasse are angry, mad and totally fed up with their federal government, their federal politicians and their national media of all types. I actually laugh every single day and evening that CNN. FNC, MSNBC, NBC, CBS,& ABC, etc. make absolute fools out of themselves trying to bring down Donald J. Trump. It ain’t gonna happen!!! They would be wiser, spending their time and energy supporting this USA,....highlighting the real hard times and financial hardships that the Bush/Obama Establishement have foisted on the American Republic, and have brought to living in eternal pain, millions of middle class Americans.

GO Donald J. Trump!!! Make America Great Again, For “ALL” Americans!!!


22 posted on 05/13/2016 6:25:48 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Oooooh, this stings!

He'll never recover from this. Trump is toast. All hail the Washington Post.
23 posted on 05/13/2016 6:25:58 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: CaptainK

Chronic butthurt syndrome


24 posted on 05/13/2016 6:29:34 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: All

And yet they could never find out that Obama had a ghost writer on his first book...Bill Ayers.


25 posted on 05/13/2016 6:32:08 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

I wonder if this will give Obama the idea to ring his own chimes, since he never does it.


26 posted on 05/13/2016 6:32:23 AM PDT by odawg
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To: CaptainK

So?


27 posted on 05/13/2016 6:45:03 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: CaptainK

After all the digging and as public as trump has led his life, this is the worst they have?

BWAHAHAHAHA


28 posted on 05/13/2016 6:46:11 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: CaptainK

A spokesman for Trump (who sounded a lot like him) yesterday suggested that Amazon might have an anti-trust problem.


29 posted on 05/13/2016 6:49:01 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: CaptainK

That’s awesome if true!


30 posted on 05/13/2016 6:51:27 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: CaptainK

More free media for Trump.

Thanks to the Gay/Hate America maggots at the Compost.


31 posted on 05/13/2016 7:02:37 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( At 1150, Donald Trump has 87 delegates to get to the needed 1,237 as of May 10, 2016, by Jeff Head)
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To: CaptainK
The media--that is the Leftist media--have pursued a fantasy reality for as long as I can remember. This sort of silliness reflects that totally disproportionate--their extremely obfuscated understanding of reality. Countering this effectively will never be difficult--and actually a bit of fun.

Trump is a complex man, with the potential to deal with many complex issues in a very statesman like manner. But the basic campaign needs to focus on those issues, which are most essential; which are the very issues where he has really stood alone into the breach in our heritage; a breach wrought by "politically correct" internationalists & their domesticated toadies.

What we need to iterate, reiterate and drive home at every opportunity: The first duty of any American Government is to make the world safe for the Americans; safe for their spiritual, cultural & material values; safe for their generations yet unborn. Clearly, no other candidate in either party has so clearly put America First! Banging that issue home, while the Leftist media & Leftist theorists do their damnedest, is the key to victory.

This not only rallies those we cannot otherwise rally; it will be reinforced by the ranting agitators to whom the very idea is anathma. It brings out the best on our side, in great numbers; it will lead to a hostile response on the other side, which will only feed into the wake up effect on ours.

This is our chance to stop the surrender of liberty & heritage by subterfuge. This can be the moment so many of us have worked for and prayed for.

William Flax

32 posted on 05/13/2016 7:04:40 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: CaptainK
I'd like to imagine that every time Trump is on the other end of the speakerphone with a Washington.comPost Democrat Party jerkweasel hack, it looks like a NSFW scene from Wolf Of Wall Street.

I mean, I resemble that when the ABC news comes on the radio at the top of the hour. Even when I'm driving.

33 posted on 05/13/2016 7:05:32 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: CaptainK

That’s it! It’s over! I’m not voting for him and Trump needs to go back to Trump Tower!

Can’t wait for the first hour of Rush. Not.


34 posted on 05/13/2016 7:10:14 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: CaptainK

The recording is being played on the Armstrong & Getty radio talk show.


35 posted on 05/13/2016 7:21:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Are you kidding me? This is not even worthy of a response. I once saw a women who looked like Hillary slap a small girl in the face back in 1975. I’ve seen multiple instances of somebody looking like Obama looting drug stores during the LA riots, and I’ve been propositioned for some man on man sex with somebody that looked remarkable like Senator Reid.


36 posted on 05/13/2016 7:27:01 AM PDT by Fhios (Going Donald Trump is as close to going John Galt as we'll get.)
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To: Fhios

Uh, I think that was Obama looting the stores.


37 posted on 05/13/2016 7:28:39 AM PDT by anton
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To: CaptainK

Let’s see...

There are millions of people starving in this world.

There are wars, and threats of many more.

There are diseases aplenty.

The world’s economy is (as usual) on the brink of collapse.

Moslem terrorists are seemingly everywhere, and literally not a single day goes by without those sick SOBs murdering a bunch of people.

Yet, somehow or other, some apparently self-promoting activities (and maybe it was all a joke done badly?) 25 years ago by Donald Trump (of all people, I’d have NEVER expected it from HIM) is of such earth-shattering importance that it drives all the rest of the real problems off of the front page.

But its the Washington Compost - what else would anyone expect from those Leftist Arseholes?


38 posted on 05/13/2016 7:32:07 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Just make sure that the bird knows that he can be replaced...that’ll shut him up. :>)


39 posted on 05/13/2016 7:33:41 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: CaptainK

Agatha Christie: Mary Westmacott
Benjamin Franklin: Mrs. Silence Dogood
C.S. Lewis: Clive Hamilton and N.W. Clerk
Isaac Asimov: Paul French
J.K. Rowling: Robert Galbraith
Michael Crichton: John Lange, Jeffery Hudson and Michael Douglas
Stephen King: Richard Bachman
Washington Irving: Jonathan Oldstyle, Diedrich Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Crayon

Bill Ayers: Barack H. Obama


40 posted on 05/13/2016 7:42:26 AM PDT by mugsaway
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