An Old Phone Recording Surfaces of a Trump PR Guy Bragging About Trump — And He Sounds Like Trump

An audiotape from the '90s surfaced and it's got people talking about Trump's PR guy who had intimate knowledge of his life — and and uncanny vocal resemblance.

By Nancy Flory Published on May 13, 2016

A lot of questions — and a few eyebrows — are being raised over a 25-year-old recording of a reporter at People magazine interviewing a man claiming to be a new PR spokesman for Donald Trump. Seems the guy who called himself “John Miller” and provided intimate details of Trump’s life sounds curiously like The Donald himself.

According to The Washington Post, which obtained the recording, the voice’s tone, confidence, cockiness and cadence is “distinctly Trumpian.” The Post reports that journalists who covered Trump throughout the ’70s, ’80s and ’90’s remember phone conversations with either “John Miller” or “John Barron” “who sound precisely like Trump himself — who indeed are Trump, masquerading as an unusually helpful and boastful advocate for himself.”

The content of the recording alone would suggest Trump is the source of the voice. The man bragged about Trump in the third-person and used the kind of language Trump does now — such as, “he’s starting to do tremendously well financially,” and describing first wife Ivana’s reaction to her divorce settlement as “a Yuge mistake,” using the distinctively Trumpian “Yuge.”

“Miller” also had very detailed information regarding the Donald-Ivana divorce settlement. For example, “Miller” said, “The judge felt that when Donald got Ivana to sign that agreement that Donald got Ivana to void her rights, and that the judge was wrong, because there’s so much case law on that.” The voice went on to lay out developments that one would think would only be known by those directly involved.

“Miller” was remarkably forthcoming, says the Post, “A spokesman with rare insight into the private thoughts and feelings of his client.”

In a telephone interview Friday with NBC’s Today, Trump denied knowing anything about the tape. “It sounds like one of the many scams,” he said, “It doesn’t sound like me.” Twice he said “I don’t think it’s me,” and “it doesn’t sound like me on the phone.” Toward the end of the interview Trump became irritated and told the reporters to “get on to more current subjects.”

The discovery of the audio recording comes just as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee gears up for the fall campaign. It also comes against the backdrop of journalist Bob Woodward’s revelation that the Post has 20 staffers now combing through every fiber of Donald Trump’s life.

Incidentally, the Post reports that during a 1990 court case Trump admitted to using the name “John Miller.” To hear the interview with “John Miller,” follow this link here.

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