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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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One of the 20 Washington Post reporters hard at work.
1 posted on 05/13/2016 6:08:23 AM PDT by CaptainK
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[One of the 20 Washington Post reporters hard at work. ]

Exactly my first thought as I saw that headline and source!


2 posted on 05/13/2016 6:09:24 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: CaptainK

And so it begins...


3 posted on 05/13/2016 6:10:00 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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How can they be so sure of this? New York is FULL of guys who sound like Trump.


4 posted on 05/13/2016 6:10:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: CaptainK

Lol. Love it!


5 posted on 05/13/2016 6:10:09 AM PDT by Lent
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To: CaptainK

The grasping of straws.


6 posted on 05/13/2016 6:10:33 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: CaptainK

TRUMP is a spokesman for himself. Someone has to say it. It might as well be him.


7 posted on 05/13/2016 6:11:00 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: CaptainK

Oooooh, this stings!


8 posted on 05/13/2016 6:11:01 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: CaptainK

Then they should release the tapes with a dated transcript.

At this point, who cares? Obama has been impersonating a US President for 7+ years.


9 posted on 05/13/2016 6:11:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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how cute that WaPo thinks this stuff is relevant


10 posted on 05/13/2016 6:11:17 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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Not that I believe it but it would be kind of weird if true.


11 posted on 05/13/2016 6:12:01 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How can they be so sure of this? New York is FULL of guys who sound like Trump.


Agree. Anything to influence the non thinkers who won’t pick that up


12 posted on 05/13/2016 6:12:13 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: CaptainK

Well, they have been on vacation for 8 years so it is nice for them to get back to investigative reporting.

Pray America wakes


13 posted on 05/13/2016 6:12:26 AM PDT by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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If I keep lining my birdcages with any more of these liberal rags, my parakeets are going to be asking for $15/hour!


14 posted on 05/13/2016 6:13:14 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 (q15.)
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To: CaptainK

The Compost has no clue that every attack by them is an endorsement to the people fed up with the DC cabal.


15 posted on 05/13/2016 6:14:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Feminists are nothing more than politically-correct sexists.)
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Oh, wow!!! That does it...Trump is gone...He’s finished...This is the “Coupe De Gracie”....

ROFL.....:o)


16 posted on 05/13/2016 6:17:33 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!

That’s good!!!!


17 posted on 05/13/2016 6:18:18 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: CaptainK

We should call it the Amazon.com Post.


18 posted on 05/13/2016 6:19:13 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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Trump was asked about it on the Today show this morning. He said it wasn’t him. Sounded like he was lying to me. Pretty creepy.


19 posted on 05/13/2016 6:21:00 AM PDT by llmc1
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Trump media judo. Pretty smart to get 20 friends of Bob Woodward to give you free commercials every day.


20 posted on 05/13/2016 6:21:39 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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