"A classic Clinton operation"?

There were a lot of federal agents all over my town today. They were here for the Penn graduation. Donald trump's daughter and the Vice President's granddaughter were graduating, and both men were in attendance. I wonder if they had a chance to meet with each other.

If they did see each other poor Biden must have been looking at trump and wishing that it was him and not Hillary running against him for president. 

Given Hillary's high negatives and her inability to put away Bernie I can see why he would feel that way. Although part of the reason Hillary is not doing well with a certain type of voter is because of her close association with Barack Obama. She beat the pants off of him in West Virginia in 2008, but then she aligned herself with him and, as a result, got crushed by Bernie in the same state. (Here is a little tidbit to remember: Just like with money, when folks say it's not about race, it is always about race.)  

Speaking of Hillary, her campaign is now being accused of planting that wonderful illuminating piece about trump's treatment of women which ran yesterday in the New York Times. If we are to believe everything in the article, Donald has Bubba beat when it comes to how he views and  treats some women.

"Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes.

Donald was having a pool party at Mar-a-Lago. There were about 50 models and 30 men. There were girls in the pools, splashing around. For some reason Donald seemed a little smitten with me. He just started talking to me and nobody else.
He suddenly took me by the hand, and he started to show me around the mansion. He asked me if I had a swimsuit with me. I said no. I hadn’t intended to swim. He took me into a room and opened drawers and asked me to put on a swimsuit.
–Rowanne Brewer Lane, former companion

Ms. Brewer Lane, at the time a 26-year-old model, did as Mr. Trump asked. “I went into the bathroom and tried one on,” she recalled. It was a bikini. “I came out, and he said, ‘Wow.’ ”

Mr. Trump, then 44 and in the midst of his first divorce, decided to show her off to the crowd at Mar-a-Lago, his estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

 

“He brought me out to the pool and said, ‘That is a stunning Trump girl, isn’t it?’ ” Ms. Brewer Lane said.

 

Donald Trump and women: The words evoke a familiar cascade of casual insults, hurled from the safe distance of a Twitter account, a radio show or a campaign podium. This is the public treatment of some women by Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president: degrading, impersonal, performed. “That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees,” he told a female contestant on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Rosie O’Donnell, he said, had a “fat, ugly face.” A lawyer who needed to pump milk for a newborn? “Disgusting,” he said."

 

What a guy.

 

Anyway, the RNC chairman and others are blaming her for the  John Miller story as well. They must really think that Hillary and her peeps are powerful. They are alleging that the stories are phony and are a part of a "classic Clinton operation." It's possible, of course, that the Clintons did do some Clintonesque stuff, but let's not lose sight of the real story here: That the republican nominee for president is a lying narcissistic fraud.

 

Of course it all won't make a difference. The dance will continue and the American people will continue to get suckered by one of the greatest cons in the history of American business. 

 

The sun is coming out and the day is looking better as I type this.

 

Donald must have left the city.    

 

*Pic from crooksandliars.com

 

    

     





    

Searching for John Miller.

Hi, Field Negro is not with us tonight; this is his publicist, Fidel Negron.

I just wanted to say a few words about how wonderful Field is, and how informative and insightful his incredible blog is.

The man has won numerous awards, been featured in various other books and media outlets, and has accumulated over seven million hits since the inception of his blog. He has influenced hundreds of African American bloggers and co-founded the Afrosphere collective, which was featured in WikipediA  as the group primarily responsible for black thought in the blogging world.

Thank you Fidel, you are doing a bang- up job as my publicist.

Ok that was me. I don't have a publicist named Fidel Negron. In fact,  I don't currently have a publicist at all.  But, unlike a certain presidential candidate, I am not lying about it.

"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."

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.

 

The Post also cited 1990 court case testimony in which Trump testified, "I believe on occasion I used that name" when asked about Barron. CNN has obtained a copy of Trump's testimony during that case.

On "Today" Friday morning, Trump at first said he didn't "think" it was him on the recording.

"This sounds like one of the scams, one of the many scams, doesn't sound like me," Trump said. "I don't think it was me, it doesn't sound like me."

 

When pressed by the anchors, Trump explicitly said it wasn't him.

And then he testily told the journalists to move on.

 

"You're going so low to talk about something that took place 25 years ago whether or not I made a phone call?" Trump said. "Let's get on to more current subjects."

 

Thomas Owens, a New Jersey-based forensic audio specialist, told CNN Friday that based on several criteria -- including pitch, tone and cadence -- Miller's voice in the audio obtained by the Post is consistent with Trump's in the early 1990s.

 

"I can conclude with a fair degree of scientific certainty that it is Donald Trump's voice," Owens said, though he noted that due to the recording's quality, he wasn't able to use biometric analysis that would make him absolutely certain.

 

Friday afternoon, Washington Post reporter James Hohmann tweeted that Trump's telephone line "went silent, then dead, this afternoon when WaPo asked: 'Did you ever employ someone named John Miller as a spokesperson?'"

 

"WaPo reporters were 44 mins into a phone interview w Trump abt his finances when asked about John Miller. The phone went silent, then dead," Hohmann added."

 

John Miller? Ok, if you are a trump supporter I suspect that you do not believe that he is lying about the aforementioned John Miller.

 

So here is the deal: To put all this to rest John Miller should produce his birth certificate, forthwith. I mean if he was trump's publicist he should come clean to prove that his former boss isn't lying. 

 

This would clear up a lot of the uncertainty about John Miller and whether such a person actually exists.

 

Look, we know that this was 25 years ago, and some guy calling into a radio show to promote himself with a false name is kind of creepy, but certainly not disqualifying for the guy to be our president. Barack Obama snorted coke for crying loud. But he owned up to it and kept it popping.

 

What's scary about this entire episode is how trump just flat out lied on national television to two reporters when pressed if he was in fact John Miler. I mean do we really want to put a psychopath in the most powerful position in the world?     

 

Rhetorical question of course. Half of the country clearly does, and they don't care if the guy makes "suggestions" instead of taking policy positions, or if he tells the country that knowing what his tax returns looks like is "none of our business". 

 

Anyway, twitter is now, of course, having a ball with this.

 

"Aliases @realDonaldTrump considered besides #JohnBarron -Ronald Flump -Von Mogul -Richie Goodman -Cash Banks -Penny Sacks -Scrooge McSmuck

 

Jay Cost ‏@JayCostTWS 4h4 hours ago

Jay Cost Retweeted Jay Cost

 

Also, just to be clear, I'm also #NeverMiller and #NeverBarron.

 

6h6 hours ago

Oh, come on. Who among us has not called a reporter pretending to be your own publicist?

 

More to come. We have seven months to go.   

 

*Pic courtesy of twitter.