https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/731207062600974337
As Twitchy told you, Donald Trump denied today that he ever tried to pass himself off as his own publicist “John Miller” in the early 1990s. If that’s indeed the case, he should probably have a talk with his 25-years-younger self.
Because this could be a problem:
According to 1991 People article, @realDonaldTrump admitted being "John Miller": https://t.co/vQ9Pit48uU pic.twitter.com/blROw86RXy
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) May 13, 2016
From the People article [emphasis ours]:
Just two weeks ago, though, Ms. Maples was not even taking The Donald’s calls. Not after a PEOPLE reporter played her a tape on June 26 of a man saying that he was a Trump publicist named John Miller. A shocked, devastated Marla identified the voice as that of Trump himself. He announced, among other things, that he’d traded in his Georgia peach for an Italian model (Carla Bruni). “When I heard his voice on that tape saying those things, I said, ‘Whoa! Uh-uh. No more,’ ” says Marla. “If he could say all that stuff and act like it’s cool to have this playboy image, then oh my gosh, all I could say was, ‘Baby, you’re on your own.'”
So she packed a bag, ducking the press as well as The Donald’s persistent appeals to reconcile, and took refuge at the Greenwich, Conn., home of her close friend, morning talk show host Kathie Lee Gilford. There she talked, prayed (she and Kathie Lee are both devout Christians) and came to a Donald-less conclusion: “I realized I was not going to die without this person in my life.”
Meanwhile a penitent Don Juan-ald had come to the opposite conclusion. The John Miller fiasco he called a joke gone awry. “What I did became a good time at Mar-la’s expense, and I’m very sorry,” says the newly humbled tycoon. As for his wandering eye, “I’d felt that I needed space and freedom after the divorce, so I took the opportunity to go out with other women, but I kept coming back to Marla. I realized, why go looking for something when you already have exactly what you want?”
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In other words, he was John Miller … before he wasn’t. Or something.
So admitted he pretended to be his own PR man as a 'joke' to People magazine, but denies it now.
— Pete & Lisa Got Caught Tampering With Flynn's 302! (@drawandstrike) May 13, 2016
Sounds about right.
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/731206532881350657
Awww, maybe we’re being too hard on him.
OK. But in fairness it's hard to keep so many different stories straight over so many years.
— Charles Lane (@ChuckLane1) May 13, 2016
Maybe @realDonaldTrump has Dissociative Identity Disorder. So knock off the microaggressions everyone.
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) May 13, 2016
Nah.
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Update:
But wait! There’s more:
Trump claims he didn’t regularly use a fake name. That’s not what he said under oath https://t.co/B2xzRiHDVy
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 13, 2016
From WaPo:
During testimony in a lawsuit that dealt with his employment of undocumented migrant workers from Poland on the Trump Tower project, the real estate mogul was asked if he had ever used the name “John Barron.”
“I believe on occasion I used that name,” Trump replied (though he would note he wasn’t specifically asked whether he used the name with the press).
Whoops!
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Update:
Hilarious new update to WaPo's fake Trump spokesman story. https://t.co/Vpd6mqXebC pic.twitter.com/QeDqte6BvL
— Elliott Schwartz (@elliosch) May 13, 2016
Just keeps getting better.
Another clean-up job for ace press flak John Miller. https://t.co/DcaeknKLvm
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) May 13, 2016
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