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Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
6. Trump's alter ego
Fri May 13, 2016, 11:00 PM
May 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html

"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."

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Who is John Miller? roody May 2016 #1
The alias Trump used when serving as his own PR flack gratuitous May 2016 #3
His alter ego it seems. Kingofalldems May 2016 #4
Trump's alter ego Bradical79 May 2016 #6
Alter ego? More of an ego annex. marble falls May 2016 #16
Who is John Miller? Jed28 May 2016 #21
We knew Trump was a coward. It seems John Miller and John Barron are too. Agnosticsherbet May 2016 #2
What's really creepy is he named his baby son with Melania "Barron." SunSeeker May 2016 #12
That was the "tell" for me - he clearly loves the name "Barron"! bullwinkle428 May 2016 #14
Yep. nt SunSeeker May 2016 #18
Barron Trump does sound awfully pretentious. 3catwoman3 May 2016 #22
Have anymore info on this John Miller? brush May 2016 #5
... Major Nikon May 2016 #7
All I know is that John Miller is one hell of an actor Bradical79 May 2016 #9
link to 1991 recording obtained by The Washington Post’s Marc Fisher. midnight May 2016 #8
Of all the things that didn't bite him, he finally seems to be turning this one into something. braddy May 2016 #10
Don't be mean gwheezie May 2016 #11
Carswell tyne May 2016 #13
He gave it to the Washington Post madaboutharry May 2016 #17
What did John Miller know and when did he know it? And where the hell is his birth certificate???? marble falls May 2016 #15
I suspect Trump had him Vince Fostered Major Nikon May 2016 #19
Nooooot again, but John, we hardly knew ye! marble falls May 2016 #20
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