Donald Trump Denies Washington post Audio FULL Interview On The Today Show 5/13/2016

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Donald Trump FULL Interview On The Today Show 5/13/2016. Donald Trump‘s 2016 presidential run, The Washington Post has published quarter-century-old audio of an interview with someone claiming to be a Donald Trump PR flack named John Miller, but who sounds a lot like Trump himself. On Friday morning’s Today Show, Trump was confronted with a clip from that audio, and not only denied it was him, but lashed out at hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie for even bringing it up: Trump: Wow. You mean you are going so low as to talk about something that took place 25 years ago, about whether or not I made a phone call? I guess you’re saying under a presumed name. Guthrie: Yes, under a presumed name. Trump: Okay. The answer is no. Let’s get on to more current subjects. I know it’s wonderful for your listeners, but we have more important things to discuss. The Today Show played a few seconds of the audio, but WaPo has about 14 minutes of audio that you can listen to here, and for your own comparison, here is a randomly-selected clip of the real Donald Trump at a 1991 House hearing talking about raising taxes on the wealthy: Wow, maybe that wasn’t really Trump, either, but Bernie Sanders in a really good Donald Trump mask. As WaPo points, out, though, it’s not just reporters who claim Trump impersonated his own publicist, but Trump himself (from an old People Magazine article) Just two weeks ago, though, Ms. Maples was not even taking The Donald’s calls. Not after a PEOPLE reporter played her a tape on June 26 of a man saying that he was a Trump publicist named John Miller. A shocked, devastated Marla identified the voice as that of Trump himself. He announced, among other things, that he’d traded in his Georgia peach for an Italian model (Carla Bruni). “When I heard his voice on that tape saying those things, I said, ‘Whoa! Uh-uh. No more,’ ” says Marla. “If he could say all that stuff and act like it’s cool to have this playboy image, then oh my gosh, all I could say was, ‘Baby, you’re on your own.’ ” ..Meanwhile a penitent Don Juan-ald had come to the opposite conclusion. The John Miller fiasco he called a joke gone awry. “What I did became a good time at Mar-la’s expense, and I’m very sorry,” says the newly humbled tycoon. As for his wandering eye, “I’d felt that I needed space and freedom after the divorce, so I took the opportunity to go out with other women, but I kept coming back to Marla. I realized, why go looking for something when you already have exactly what you want?” It might seem unlikely now, given Trump’s Teflon durability to this point, but this sort of thing has the potential to damage him in a general election context, where his core appeal isn’t so strong and the electorate not so worshipful. The last time his poll numbers went down in flames, it wasn’t over policy or controversial bombast, it was from being turned into a punchline. Donald Trump denied he ever posed as a media spokesman to conduct phone interviews with reporters, calling the release of audio of what sounds like him doing so "one of the many scams" used against him. 1991 Donald Trump recording: Did Trump pretend to be own publicist? Donald Trump prepares to meet with Paul Ryan, GOP leaders "No, I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time and it doesn't sound like my voice at all," he told TODAY Friday about a Washington Post article saying Trump gave interviews while posing as a spokesman, sometimes named John Miller and at other times, John Barron. "I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and you can imagine that. This sounds like one of these scams, one of the many scams. It doesn't sound like me," he said. The Post article said Trump acknowledged he used to pose as someone else routinely and released a 25-year-old audio of such a conversation. "It was not me on the phone. And it doesn't sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that. It was not me on the phone," he insisted before cutting off the issue. "Let's go on to more current subjects." Trump also addressed plans by the Obama administration plans to issue a sweeping directive requiring every public school district to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. 1991 Donald Trump recording: Did Trump pretend to be own publicist? Play Video During a town hall in April on the TODAY Plaza, Trump addressed the North Carolina law, saying he would have left things as they were because "there have been very few complaints the way it is." On Friday, he said he would leave the issue up to states to decide. "Let the states decide. I think it's much better as a local issue. I don't think it's a federal issue where the federal government gets involved. And I see what's happening. It's become such a big situation," he said.