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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.


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To: CaptainK

Con man gotta con, man.


61 posted on 05/13/2016 11:50:36 AM PDT by socal_parrot (I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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To: hotsteppa

Trending the U.S. all morning:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22John%20Miller%22&src=tren

I NEVER said he said that Today. That was my point Today he says that it’s not him and knows nothing about it.

If he did it (it sounds like him to me), I don’t care. I think it’s funny and trolling before people knew what it even was. I just would rather he admitted to it if he did it.


62 posted on 05/13/2016 11:55:41 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: epluribus_2

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63 posted on 05/13/2016 12:02:58 PM 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: irishjuggler
Yeah, it sounds like him to me. Marla Maples also said it was him:

Just two weeks ago, though, Ms. Maples was not even taking The Donald’s calls. Not after a PEOPLE reporter played her a tape on June 26 of a man saying that he was a Trump publicist named John Miller. A shocked, devastated Marla identified the voice as that of Trump himself. He announced, among other things, that he’d traded in his Georgia peach for an Italian model (Carla Bruni). “When I heard his voice on that tape saying those things, I said, ‘Whoa! Uh-uh. No more,’ ” says Marla. “If he could say all that stuff and act like it’s cool to have this playboy image, then oh my gosh, all I could say was, ‘Baby, you’re on your own.’ ”

..Meanwhile a penitent Don Juan-ald had come to the opposite conclusion. The John Miller fiasco he called a joke gone awry. “What I did became a good time at Mar-la’s expense, and I’m very sorry,” says the newly humbled tycoon. As for his wandering eye, “I’d felt that I needed space and freedom after the divorce, so I took the opportunity to go out with other women, but I kept coming back to Marla. I realized, why go looking for something when you already have exactly what you want?”

Trump also basically admitted using the other name:

The Post also cited 1990 court case testimony in which Trump testified, "I believe on occasion I used that name" when asked about Barron. CNN has obtained a copy of Trump's testimony during that case.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/13/politics/donald-trump-recording-john-miller-barron-fake-press/

Here's the deal, like I said, I don't care if he used a fake name and posed as his spokesman. It's pretty pathetic this is what the media can get on him. I just would rather he not lie and just say that it was 25 years ago, was him just having some fun, and end it at that. The libs and bitter Never Trumpers would mock him, but most people wouldn't care. Now, however, he's being accused of lying about it, and you have guys like Smerconish asking to interview Miller and Barron. The media will look for these two people, and if they don't find them (it would be awesome if they did), then they will make a big deal about him lying, whereas otherwise it would have been insignificant.

64 posted on 05/13/2016 12:05:23 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Pinkbell
Now, however, he's being accused of lying about it, and you have guys like Smerconish asking to interview Miller and Barron. The media will look for these two people, and if they don't find them

Yes, it is entirely possible that they won't find them after all these years. ;-)

I predict that Saturday Night Live will have the last word on this matter.

65 posted on 05/13/2016 12:08:37 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: CaptainK

Really? That’s it? Good grief Bezos.....


66 posted on 05/13/2016 12:09:41 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: CaptainK

Who better to represent you than yourselt?


67 posted on 05/13/2016 12:10:07 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to youGo to trumps websites look at issues an)
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To: Pinkbell

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/bezos-media-releases-25-year-old-scrambled-audio-try-take-trump/


68 posted on 05/13/2016 12:52:05 PM PDT by hotsteppa
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To: CaptainK
Where DOES the Washington Post find such brilliant reporters? Why I thought Trump would have Obama and Clinton telling the world how wonderful he is.
69 posted on 05/13/2016 2:32:28 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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