A top ally of Donald Trump admitted recently that the presumptive Republican nominee acted as his own spokesman in 1991 after audio between a publicist name John Miller and People magazine emerged late last week.
Roger Stone, a former Trump political hand, said in an interview Saturday that Trump posed as his own spokesperson, but subsequently downplayed it, comparing it to the Founding Fathers using pseudonyms to get their message out without talking themselves.
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“They focus on whether or not Donald Trump may or may not have posed as a public relations man in order to get his spin and his side of the story,” Stone said. “This is ridiculous. James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton — they all wrote under pseudonyms. They all had things they wanted to say, and they wrote under pseudonyms.”
Trump wanted to get his spin and his side of the story, so he handled the press call himself — probably because he didn’t want to pay a public relations expert,” Stone continued. “What difference does it make?”
When asked if he ever employed a man named John Miller at the end of a 44-minute-long interview with the Washington Post on Friday, Trump reportedly hung up. The reporters were unable to get Trump back on the line.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday that while “it’s a little bit odd,” the story won’t matter to the voting electorate in the long run.
