Trump posed as his own publicist to brag about how many girlfriends he has

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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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Some reporters found the calls from Miller or Barron disturbing or even creepy; others thought they were just examples of Trump being playful. Today, as the presumptive Republican nominee for president faces questions about his attitudes toward women, what stands out to some who received those calls is Trump’s characterization of women who he portrayed as drawn to him sexually.

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In a phone call to NBC’s “Today” program Friday morning, Trump denied that he was John Miller. “No, I don’t think it — I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time and it doesn’t sound like my voice at all,” he said. “I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and then you can imagine that, and this sounds like one of the scams, one of the many scams — doesn’t sound like me.” Later, he was more definitive: “It was not me on the phone. And it doesn’t sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that, and it was not me on the phone. And when was this? Twenty-five years ago?”

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Carswell was far from the only reporter who received calls from suspiciously Trumpian characters. Longtime New York Daily News gossip columnist Linda Stasi said Trump once left her a voice mail from an “anonymous tipster” who wanted it known that Trump had been spotted going out with models. And editors at New York tabloids said calls from Barron were at points so common that they became a recurring joke on the city desk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

The fact that none of this is surprising says a lot about the GOP's nominee.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. And right here on this message board, dozens or even hundreds of people are just

fucking fine with this piece of shit in the WHite House

FUCK there goes my blood pressure again

[Rex]

2. So Trump is about as mature as a 14 year old boy?

Well that is still a few years above the norm for GOPers. I believe they are around 6th grade comprehension.

Did you hear Cindy said she would go to prom with me? No? I have it on my voicemail!

[bullwinkle428]

3. I'm surprised he didn't use "Miles Long" as his non de plume!

[monmouth4]

4. "Barron" is the youngest son's name so there's that..LOL. What a jerk..n/t

[PJMcK]

5. Listen to the recording

If you listen to the recording, you'll instantly recognize Mr. Trump as the "publicist" on the phone. Although the audio quality is sketchy, everything in the interview- vocal quality, word choice, overuse of words of acclamation, the tempo of speech and the over-the-top praise of Mr. Trump- screams that this is, in fact, Donald Trump on the phone.

Of course, Mr. Trump denies it's him and deflects questions about the phone interview. Doesn't he always change his story 180º? And if that doesn't work, he deflects the conversation away from "an old story." A quick Google search brought up many people named "John Miller," which seems a fairly common name but none of the top 100 hits leads to a professional spokesperson. There is one exception, a John Miller who was a correspondent for CBS News who then moved to the New York City Police Department. However, nothing in this Mr. Miller's biography indicates that he ever worked for Mr. Trump.

Donald Trump is a serial liar and professional BS artist. Sadly, this is another inside baseball story that most voters will never hear about. That's the shield that Mr. Trump can hide behind, namely, that only political junkies will follow these kind of obscure stories. There are so many of them, though, that I cannot understand how anyone can support a man who has vacillated so wildly during his life and subsequent presidential campaign.

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6. I wonder whether the denial is the bigger story

He's obviously gotten away with everything he's said and done in his campaign so far, but that's really only because he's always owned his behavior and actually been proud of it.

This time, though, he's finally embarrassed enough about something to deny it. I would bet that voice recognition software could be used to confirm that it's his voice. Then what will he say? "You're right" is not in his vocabulary.

If he'd said "Yeah, it was me, so what, bite me" we'd be all Oh, that crazy Donald Trump. But the denial makes this interesting.

[MH1]

7. At this point, his base won't even care.

They're all so drunk on the kool-aid that this will just add to his "charm" for them.

Hopefully it will at least warn others from drinking that kool-aid.

I'd like to think this moronic dipspittle has no shot at winning in November. But I remember 2000. Sigh.