A proposed personnel roster circulating within Donald Trump's campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trump's classified documents case, as a possible candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News.
@#34 ... I'm counting on that never happening. ...
Yeah, you and I both.
I have known of a Donald Trump since the late 80's, early 90's.
I am in the NYC media market, so, I have been subject to the Page 6 articles of the NY Post, et al, for a long while.
To wit...
Donald Trump posed as a fake spokesman for an entire decade (2016)
theweek.com
... Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump didn't always have a spokesman on hand. So he conjured one.
For an entire decade, Trump posed as John Barron to reporters. Let The Washington Post explain:
In a LexisNexis search, the first mention of the name appears on June 6, 1980, in a New York Times report about Trump's controversial decision to destroy two Art Deco sculptures he had conditionally promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In that instance, Trump used the alias to stall for three days before finally giving an interview under his own name; when he did, he told the Times that he had been out of town and unavailable (!). [The Washington Post]
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@#36 ... Trump posed as John Barron ...
Pseudonyms used by Donald Trump
en.wikipedia.org
... Donald Trump, an American businessman, politician, and former president of the United States has used several pseudonyms, including "John Barron" (or "John Baron"), "John Miller" and "David Dennison".
His practice of sometimes speaking to the media under the guise of a spokesperson has been described as "an open secret" at the Trump Organization and in New York media circles.[1] ...
@#37 ... His practice of sometimes speaking to the media under the guise of a spokesperson has been described as "an open secret" at the Trump Organization and in New York media circles. ...
Yeah.
To wit ...
Donald Trump on recording: Not me (2016)
www.cnn.com
... Donald Trump said Friday that a newly resurfaced recording of a man who sounds like Trump posing as his spokesman isn't him -- even though he has admitted in the past to posing as his own publicist under a pseudonym.
"It was not me on the phone," Trump told NBC's "Today" show when the recording was played for him during a live interview. "And it doesn't sound like me on the phone, I'll tell you that, and it was not me on the phone."
Is Trump's past back to haunt him?
NBC was asking Trump about a Washington Post report published earlier Friday that claims Trump routinely made calls to reporters in the 1970s, '80s and 90s posing as a publicist named John Miller or John Barron, advocating for himself and answering questions about his personal life and business dealings.
The man in the 14-minute recording sounds much like Trump, and the Post pointed to Trump's long appreciation of the name Barron, including the name of his youngest son. ...
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