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Stone Confirms Trump Acted as His Own Spokesman

May 16, 2016 · 3:00 pm ET · 47 Comments

Roger Stone, a longtime political ally and former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, admitted that Donald Trump posed as his own publicist in the early 1990s, BuzzFeed reports.

Said Stone: “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. 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 added: “Trump wanted to get his spin and his side of the story, so he handled the press call himself, probably because he didn’t want to pay a public relations expert. What difference does it make?”

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