Discussion: Reporter Who Interviewed 'John Miller': Donald Trump Leaked The Tape

““He’s done stranger things,” she later added.”

After he votes for him, no person can say he didn’t know about Trump.

You own him.

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Donald Trump is a Stump and he’s got to raise his voice and be obnoxious just to feel normal!

I expect Donald Trump’s brittle, narcissistic personality to crumble into full-blown dissociative personality disorder by the end of the campaign.

In fact, that might already explain his fluent but talentless lying: you see, that really isn’t his voice on the WaPo tape. It’s John Miller’s.

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That’s got to become someone’s Internet avatar: “John Miller, Spokesman.”

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I doubt that it will take anywhere near that long.

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I saw one last night: “John Miler, PR”

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To qoute " TEFLON" Donald Trump:

"Donald Trump Says He Could ‘Shoot Somebody’ Without Losing Votes "

“Donald Trump Leaked The Tape”= piece of cake.Sad to say,his followers are at their last grasp.

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I’ve known people like that --> any attention, even negative attention is better than no attention. I really don’t get why he might have released it though. He surely is getting a ton of attention…just look at all the real estate he has here at TPM!

This phone thing makes him look like a fool; an idiot. Of course everything else he says pretty much does that too.

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His campaign surely knows the media will move on to something else in a matter of days and at some point, if we’re not there already, the media and every Republican will just chalk the next thing that comes up to “Trump being Trump” and leave it that.

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Just added pathological liar to his other sterling personality features: racist, misogynist, swindler.

What in the world can Speaker Ryan and others be thinking? Apparently, their power-lust is more powerful than all those boring RWNJ principles and values they’ve droned on about for decades. I imagine their meetings are a lot like Gov. Lepetomane’s:
“Gentlemen, gentlemen, we’ve gotta protect our phony-baloney jobs!”
“Immediately!”
“Harumph!”

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I don’t buy that Trump released the tape for one minute. It may not have come from her, but there were probably other people at People who had access to it, even other people on Trump’s side who would have had access to it, assuming he taped it himself.

Plus, Trump has not handled this well. Hanging up the phone in the middle of an interview when the name is brought up? No…just not buying it. And, as you point out, Trump already owns the media cycle. Why introduce something that embarrasses and humiliates him, just to add to an already Trump bloated news cycle…at the end of the week??

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Maybe Trump wants focus on something other than his tax returns

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I can’t believe anyone else would have keep such a tape. It’s probably came from Trump’s Greatest Scams library. Nixon kept tapes, too.

When you need a diversion from your failure to disclose your taxes and eagerness to stop scrutiny of your self-funding/loaning money to your campaign scam, leaking a tape bragging about your sexual exploits always works…like a charm with the Palin People and media.

I thought the Nazi Butler story was the most outrageously silly thing ever in American politics. Trump just keeps pulling them out of his pocket like a mad magician.

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Ego knows no bounds and he needed a diversion.

Ryan, on his knees, to Trump: Please,please, plesse-- won’t you at least give us a fig leaf? Please.

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Their current GOP bathroom debate is making Trump’s alter-ego publicist gig look almost distinguished in comparison.

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But this slow drip is pre-conditioning the marketplace for already wary independent voters and reinforcing the determination of Democratic voters to send this guy back to his reality show life. By the time Democratic TV ads run with every GOP politician in the country saying something negative about Trump, voters will have already come to that conclusion themselves.

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So, Trump very likely leaked the tape that might ultimately prove to be the beginning stumble to his long fall down the stairs? LOL! What’s that saying? – You can’t make this stuff up!!

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I’m with the folks who don’t believe he did it. Memories are fallible; she could have made a copy and forgotten. She lost the original; it might have been found. And tapes are easily copied. (An old girlfriend from the Eighties once played me a copy times however many of Springsteen’s answering-machine message.) She might be extending her own moment in the sun. But most of all, even if you look at the situation through Trumpian crazy goggles there’s no reason for him to do it, any more than the Wizard wanted Toto to pull back the curtain. As crazy as he is, he seems aware that it’s pretty squirrelly to pretend to be someone else so you can claim that celebrities want to date you. And my wife—my wife, Morgan Fairchild, yeah, that’s the ticket—she agrees too.

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