Donald Trump Lies About Having Impersonated His Own PR Flack During Calls To Reporters [VIDEO]

From this morning’s story from the Washington Post:

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

And the usual lie:

Asked about the report on NBC’s “Today” minutes after it published, Trump remarked, “No, I don’t think it — I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time, and it doesn’t sound like my voice at all. I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice. You can imagine that. This sounds like one of the scams, one of the many scams. Doesn’t sound like me.”

Radio host Laura Ingraham ripped into the coverage, telling listeners that the media “are treating this like it’s Watergate.” “No, it doesn’t matter,” Ingraham said after playing a clip of Fox News’ Chris Wallace discussing the reports in which he questioned whether it matters. “It’s stupid. But this is going to happen.”