Donald Trump ally Roger Stone seemingly admitted in an interview over the weekend that the businessman used to pose as his own spokesman while dismissing the story’s relevance.
Stone, appearing in a Breitbart radio interview highlighted by BuzzFeed, pushed back on The Washington Post’s article Friday on Trump posing as his own spokesman in the 1990s.
{mosads}“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 of the Post story.
“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,” he said.
“Trump wanted to get his spin on a story, so he handled the press call himself, probably because he didn’t want to pay a public relations expert,” Stone said. “What difference does it make?”
Trump denied on the “Today” show Friday that it was his voice in a 1991 telephone interview published by the Post of a man who identified himself as “John Miller” and spoke on behalf of Trump.
He later reportedly hung up on reporters from the newspaper who asked about the spokesman.