Worst week in Washington? We’ve got to hand it to ‘John Miller.’
washingtonpost.com
Hilarious extended audio recording of Trump pretending to be someone else in his own voice at link above.
John Miller here. Damn glad to meet ya! Have you heard about that super handsome, way cool guy named Donald Trump? Man, he is the best! We learned this week that "John Miller," an alleged spokesman for Trump back in the 1980s, was very, very close to the real estate mogul. So close in fact that he was the real estate mogul, making calls to reporters under an assumed name to boost Trump's status.
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. Trump denied the "Miller" connection shortly after the WaPo story posted. “You’re telling me about it for the first time and it doesn’t sound like my voice at all," Trump said on the "Today" show. "I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and you can imagine that and this sounds like one of these scams, one of the many scams."
Which is weird. Because in a 1990 lawsuit -- regarding his alleged use of undocumented workers from Poland to build Trump Tower -- The Donald testified under oath that “I believe on occasion I used that name.” Trump was referring specifically to the nom de plume "John Barron" in that instance but it's been widely reported that he used Barron and "John Miller" interchangeably at the time.
The Post managed to reach Trump on Friday after the story posted and, after spending 45 minutes on the phone with him, asked if he was "John Miller." Here's what happened next:
The phone went silent, then dead. When the reporters called back and reached Trump’s secretary, she said, “I heard you got disconnected. He can’t take the call now. I don’t know what happened.”
</snip> Rest here: washingtonpost.com
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