Yinlock posted:

tbf trump made no effort to even look at the dude so i think it was a mutual understanding that they hated each-othe

STAC Goat posted:

The President of the United States gets bored and angry easily and his team has to keep him distracted.

Jesus loving Christ.

Von Sloneker posted:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/823380943562014721

Yinlock posted:

tbf trump made no effort to even look at the dude so i think it was a mutual understanding that they hated each-othe

Agrajag posted:

but wasn't there some official that said that most the people who went are CIA staffers?

Venom Snake posted:

https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/823053301453295616

GDT is a pro as heck follow

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In 1983, a class-action lawsuit was filed against the Trump Organization, concerning unpaid labor union pension and medical obligations.[21] Trump testified in 1990 that he was unaware that 200 undocumented Polish immigrants, some of whom lived at the site during a 1980 transit strike and worked round-the-clock shifts, were involved in the destruction of the Bonwit Teller building and the Trump Tower project.[22] Trump said that he rarely visited the demolition site[22] and never noticed the laborers, who were known as the "Polish Brigade" and who were visually distinct for their lack of hard hats.[23] A labor consultant and FBI informant testified that Trump was aware of the illegal workers' status.[22] In testimony, Trump stated that he and an executive used the pseudonym "John Baron" in some of his business dealings,[22] although Trump said that he did not do so until years after Trump Tower was constructed.[23] A labor lawyer testified that he was threatened over the phone with a $100 million lawsuit by a John Baron who supposedly worked for the Trump Organization. Donald Trump later told a reporter, "Lots of people use pen names. Ernest Hemingway used one."[23]) The case went through several appeals and non-jury trials, and was at one point compared by a presiding judge to Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the seemingly unending case that forms the backbone of Charles Dickens' Bleak House.[21] The lawsuit was ultimately settled in 1999, with its records sealed.[23]

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John Barron[edit]
Trump used the pseudonym "John Barron" (sometimes "John Baron") throughout the 1980s. The Washington Post said the name was a "go-to alias when [Trump] was under scrutiny, in need of a tough front man or otherwise wanting to convey a message without attaching his own name to it".[4] Barron would be introduced as a spokesperson for Trump.[5]
The pseudonym first appeared within a June 6, 1980 New York Times article about Trump's decision to destroy two sculptures he had promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Barron", describing himself as "a Trump Organization vice president", acted as the spokesperson for Trump for three days in that case.[6] Trump continued to pose as "Barron" on occasion for the rest of the decade. In 1983 "Barron" told the press that Trump had decided not to purchase the Cleveland Indians.[7] In 1984, "Barron" gave the press a positive spin on the 1984 collapse of a plan to build Trump Castle in New York. In 1985, "Barron" urged fellow United States Football League team owners to partially reimburse Trump for a high-priced player. The Washington Post suggested that Trump might have used the pseudonym longer "if not for a lawsuit in which he testified, under oath in 1990, that 'I believe on occasion I used that name.'"[4]

John Miller[edit]
In 1991, a reporter for People attempted to interview Trump about the end of his marriage to Ivana and his rumored association with other women. She was called back by a publicist named "John Miller", who gave her a long interview about Trump's marital affairs ("He's a good guy, and he's not going to hurt anybody. . . . He treated his wife well and . . . he will treat Marla well."), his attractiveness to women, and his wealth. The reporter thought at the time that "Miller" sounded remarkably like Trump, and played the tape to several people who knew Trump and agreed it was Trump.[8] She says Trump later told her it was a "joke gone awry".[2] In 2016, The Washington Post obtained a copy of the tape and reported that it was Trump using a pseudonym. Trump denied it, saying "It was not me on the phone." Later, when a reporter asked Trump if he had ever employed a spokesperson named John Miller, he hung up on them.[1]

Agrajag posted:

but wasn't there some official that said that most the people who went are CIA staffers?

STAC Goat posted:

The collection of information we have seems to say that the majority of the crowd were CIA staffers who chose to be there because they like Trump but the people who sounded like a TV studio audience were people who came to the event with Trump. So there was probably polite applause and general positive response (at least until he went off the rails) and then the whooping fools.

Von Sloneker posted:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/823380943562014721

Mariana Horchata posted: