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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri May 13, 2016, 01:56 PM May 2016

Donald Trump lies: Denies Pretending To Be His Own Spokesman

Reporters have long known Trump to use a fake name when talking to them.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denied on Friday that he ever used a false name to pose as a spokesman for himself — something he had been widely known to do for years.

During a telephone interview on the “Today” show, Trump responded to a Washington Post report detailing Trump’s attempts to call reporters using the false names John Barron or John Miller. The Post obtained a recording from one call with “Miller” that sounds an awful lot like Trump discussing his divorce with Marla Maples.

Trump denied it was him in the recording and called it a “scam.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-spokesman-impersonation_us_5735e7e9e4b08f96c182eedd?rnyj3b74lih4vg3nmi

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Donald Trump lies: Denies Pretending To Be His Own Spokesman (Original Post) UCmeNdc May 2016 OP
Bah! Trump appears to have no comprehension of... TreasonousBastard May 2016 #1
No, he knows it's a lie Major Nikon May 2016 #4
If you don't believe Trump, what about bighands1946? gratuitous May 2016 #2
I posted about this in LBN Major Nikon May 2016 #3

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. Bah! Trump appears to have no comprehension of...
Fri May 13, 2016, 01:59 PM
May 2016

the difference between truth and falsehood.

He really doesn't-- he genuinely believes every word out of his tiny, but loud, mouth is true.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
4. No, he knows it's a lie
Fri May 13, 2016, 02:47 PM
May 2016

The pathological trait of a psychopath is being a very accomplished liar. A lie is willful deceit. If Trump can make you believe he thinks it's true, then what he says isn't a lie even if it's wrong.

Here's what we already know about this. Trump was busted in this fraud decades ago and initially lied about it. Then when he was compelled to tell the truth under oath, he did. Later he said it was just a "joke". Now he's busted all over again and once again he's trying to lie his way out of it.

The more he lies about it, the bigger the story gets. It's already been picked up by Mother Jones, Salon, and the networks. Soon even Fox will have to pick it up if they haven't already. At some point Trump has to come clean and mark my words when he does he's going to say he forgot all about it, even though that's just another lie to cover for the previous ones, and as long as he can convince people that he genuinely did forget about it, he won't be caught in a lie again. That's how the psychopath manipulates people.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
3. I posted about this in LBN
Fri May 13, 2016, 02:17 PM
May 2016

There's a ton of information that's coming out and Trump is caught red handed lying about it, which is kinda funny since he admitted to doing it under oath.

After trouncing Cruz with "Lying Ted" this is going to hit him like a ton of bricks at just the right moment.

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