Trump Hangs Up When WaPo Reporters Ask Him About Posing As Publicist

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump speaks during the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in North Charleston, S.C. ... Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump speaks during the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) MORE LESS
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Donald Trump abruptly hung up on Washington Post reporters when they asked him Friday afternoon about reports that he used to masquerade as his own publicist in interviews.

The Post’s Marc Fisher and Will Hobson reported that they were 44 minutes into a call with Trump about his finances when they asked if he ever employed a man named John Miller as his publicist. Trump immediately went silent, and then the line went dead, they wrote.

Fisher and Hobson wrote that when they called back, Trump’s secretary told them, “I heard you got disconnected. He can’t take the call now. I don’t know what happened.”

The inquiry came the same day the Post published audio of a 1991 interview in which a man by the name of John Miller, who sounded like Trump, recounting details of the real estate mogul’s love life to a reporter for People magazine.

Trump adamantly denied Friday that he was the person speaking with the People magazine reporter, saying “it doesn’t sound like me on the phone.”

“I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice,” he said in an interview on NBC’s “Today.” “And you can imagine that. And this sounds like one of these scams, one of the many scams, doesn’t sound like me.”

Yet, as the Post reported, Trump had admitted back in the ‘90s that he made the call and said it was “a joke gone awry.”

Trump also testified in a 1990 court case that he occasionally used the names John Miller and John Baron in interviews with the media, according to the Associated Press.

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  1. Humpty Trumpty!

  2. Keep pressing him…do not let up …stop fighting amongst ourselves…this guy is a great threat to
    our country…do not take this lightly…

  3. Avatar for meri meri says:

    This? This is the thing that the journalists actually pursue?

  4. So, he admits it in court, and denies it to the press.

    Smart!

    @meri I agree that there are a whole lot of other stuff that is more damning, but this does speak to his character, both in his denial of it and in his reaction to being questioned about it. Sort of like his reaction for decades to his being called a short-fingered vulgarian in Spy magazine - well balanced people don’t act that way.

  5. Yes. It reveals that he is a Yuuuuge Loser. Which is good.

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