Donald Trump masqueraded as a spokesman to brag about himself This is too good. Apparently, in the 80's and 90's, Trump used to, in the pre-internet age, call reporters posing as a "spokesman" to plant stories about himself and/or defend himself. In the internet age, we'd call that a sock puppet. "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." (Much more at the link) Trump has denied it was him already. Embarrassing to be sure, but if indeed it is him, he should probably just cop to it rather than be caught in a simple-to-understand lie (as opposed to his easier-to-weasel-out-of lies).
Apparently he's been hanging up on interviewers who dare ask him about the issue. I guess it's hitting a little too close to home. Your next CinC, ladies and gentlemen! When they get ready to let fly the missiles, watch him hang up the red phone and cringe!
