This sounds like one of the many scams.
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Mr Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
Carswell reiterated that she believes Trump leaked the audio of the 1991 interview to the Washington Post.
According to The Washington Post, it was not unusual for reporters covering Trump’s career in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s to get calls from the business mogul masquerading as a publicist named “John Miller” or “John Barron“.
Trump’s marriage to Ivana Trump was ending that year and he was with Marla Maples, who would become his second wife. “It should be, and I hope it’s before the election”, Trump told ABC’s Good Morning America.
He is really insistent that Trump isn’t limited to just one woman, and he totally gets called by tons of famous and lovely women, like, all the time.
CARSWELL: Yes, I mean in another phone call, but not during, obviously during the conversation.
“No, I don’t know anything about it”.
This John Miller gives an entire interview to People magazine about Mr. Trump, talking about dating and divorce – very personal things.
Carswell called Trump’s office in 1991 regarding a story in the New York Post which claimed that he dumped his then girlfriend, Marla Maples for Carla Bruni, a singer and songwriter. “And it doesn’t sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that, and it was not me on the phone”. She worked at People back when that tape was recorded and now she’s a research reporter for Vanity Fair.
Did Donald Trump have a second job in the early 90s as a spokesman for himself under the pseudonym John Miller?
TAPPER: Well, when you start saying, the construct I think you’re looking for is tremendously successful, that’s the one he uses a lot in real life and that John Miller used in there. I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice. I wouldn’t say that doesn’t sound like me. The name he used most often was “John Barron” (sometimes spelled “Baron”), but he also went by the name “John Miller”.
Carswell believes that the release of the tape was a ploy to distract people from other issues such as Trump’s tax returns and his butler’s insistence that President Obama be killed.
Then there’s the kicker: Carswell said that she never shared the audio recording, musing that the audio obtained by The Washington Post could only come from one place.
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One Trump biographer, says he may learned the trick from his dad, who was known in the NY real estate press as “mister green”.
