Trump denies he posed as his spokesman during tabloid days
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a rally in Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, May 5, 2016.
WASHINGTON >> Back when Donald Trump’s love life was tabloid heaven, a Trump spokesman with intimate knowledge of the businessman’s personal relationships offered juicy stories about a failing marriage, a new live-in paramour and three other girlfriends he was juggling at once.
The spokesman identified himself as John Miller. But The Washington Post says it was actually Trump, posing as his own publicist on the phone with a reporter who wondered why Miller’s voice sounded so familiar.
The Post has unearthed a recording of that 1991 phone call. The voice on the phone describes Trump as irresistible to women.
“He gets called by everybody in the book, in terms of women,” says the voice. “He’s got a whole open field, really.”
On NBC’s “Today” show Friday, Trump denied being the voice on the phone. “I don’t know anything about it,” he said.
But he owned up to it at the time, describing the Miller call as a “joke gone awry,” said the Post.
Trump also testified in a 1990 court case that he occasionally used the name John Miller and disclosed that his favorite alias was John Baron.
In the call with People magazine reporter Sue Carswell, the “spokesman” said “actresses just call to see if they can go out with him and things.”
He said Madonna “wanted to go out with him” and “came in a beautiful evening gown and combat boots” to hang out with Trump at the Plaza Hotel, which he owned. “He’s got zero interest that night,” said the man known as Miller, apparently meaning they did not have sex.
Trump’s marriage to Ivana Trump was ending that year and he was with Marla Maples, who would become his second wife. He was also seeing three other women, said the “spokesman,” including model Carla Bruni.
Carswell, now at Vanity Fair, told the Post she played the recording to Maples, who confirmed the call was from Trump himself and cried upon hearing him say that a ring he had given her was not meant to imply an engagement — although their engagement was announced weeks later.
Carswell says Maples persuaded Trump to invite her out with the two of them to make up for the trickery.
A Trump supporter in Congress, GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, said what happened back then “has no bearing on who he is today.”
“It doesn’t matter to me one whit,” he said.
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So what?
Would validate Trump is a hypocrite when he says Bill Clinton is a perv and mistreats women when he himself is just as bad.
PS: Hillary is going down in flames with her email scandal and when more comes out about Donald as a horn dog and racist, expect a third party candidate to emerge. Romney choked last time but I think he learned his lesson and would support him as a third party candidate with a Hispanic vice president candidate like Marco Rubio.
Romney has revealed his true colors. He could not be elected dog catcher.
Slick Willie is a liar, a military loathing draft dodger and a rapist – – and his so called “wife” enabled him to pursue a life of extramarital adventure, confident she would “manage” any bimbos that erupted.
HIs foot note in history? Only elected president ever to be impeached.
Amusing to see republicans fall all over themselves trying to change the subject.
If you are disqualifying draft dodgers you need to add Trump to the list.
wrong: andrew johnson also.
LesPark, So what? So, it’s Donald. He is a creative businessman. No wonder he is so successful. Go Donald. He’s got the Democrats going crazy, even to the extent of forcing Bernie out of their Primary.
Shows his state of mind and what he is capable of. Pretty much explains his split personality that he has shown the past year, being a demon one day, then being a saint the next like nothing happened.
If the Republicans don’t want to support Trump. Don’t.
Don’t whine if Hillary is the next President.
Mr. Trump is profoundly mentally ill. It’s remarkable that his supporters deny that obvious truth.
So our next President is mentally ill? I’ll take my chances with Trump.
If I want to vote “against” The Donald, I have vote “for” Hillary? Can we do write-in candidates?
Based on your other comments, the fact that you support Mr. Trump is not a surprise.
Klastri, You made the diagnosis.
Of course, you have evidence to support this comment. You wouldn’t just blurt out “profound” allegations.
Bald headed, I mean bald faced, LIAR and career psychopath
See what we have to look forward to on Nov. 8?
Ever seen the movie “Idiocracy”? That’s where America is headed way ahead of schedule.
is this the best democrats can do?
they will need more than that to deflect and counteract hiliar’s congenital lying about ducking sniper fire, attacking any woman bill sexually assaulted, paying her male campaign staffers more than female staffers, whitewatergate, travel gate, cattle futures gate, web hubble’s daughter, the long list of “clinton suicide syndrome” victims that were former partners, business and sexual, or whistle blowers about to testify in clinton scandals. bill’s riding epstein’s pleasure jet to island resorts, and “security inquiry” vs “criminal investigation” in the fbi email cases.
no, it’s going to take a lot more than just a report of trump trumpeting his own horn to distract people from hiliar’s lifelong obsession with being the first female felon nominated for president.
You continue with your prideful and willful ignorance about what constitutes a felony. Do you have the ability to learn anything?
So do you think Hillary Clinton is squeaky clean, morally pure; driven solely by her love of country…?
Did I write that? Lying does not help your manufactured case.
Klastri thinks so.
Nothing you can say will change klastri’s opinion. It will be interesting and Trump hasn’t even started.
lespark: she is so intoxicated on her intellectual flatulence that she doesn’t have opinions, just relentless gruber-like bullying rages that permeates these forums.
trump is a pathological liar and he will say anything to anyone just to sound good or please someone. he is not sincere, do we want a president who is a liar, arrogant, bigot and downright stupid.
Who are you talking about?
Yup, current occupant of the White House. Perfect description.
Look, klastri’s back………How many has he been banned from SA?
scuddrunner – Never.
As far as I’m concerned from now on both parents have to be born in America. No telling what’s going to happen with all these birthers