You know, when Trump first started to get his brand up and running, it was an open secret among NYC reporters that Trump would often call them and tell them where Trump was appearing, or what was going on with him, but would say he was someone else like Baron or John Miller.
Now.................if it was pretty much an open secret among reporters ANYWAY, then why did Trump feel the need to lie about something so trivial?
Since they knew he did it anyway, he could have just admitted that yeah, when he was starting out, he would garner free publicity that way so that he could grow his brand.
If he would have said that, people would have thought that he was clever for getting the media to actually work for him for free, as well as would have applauded him for punking the press.
But now? He's got a scandal that he is going to have to fight for a while.
However................some on the political shows have said that the reporter for the magazine didn't leak the tape to the papers, and there was only one other person who had a tape...................Trump. Some of the pundits have asked about the possibility that Trump leaked the tapes as a way to deflect from his tax returns and all the other crap he had go down last week. The story leaked on Friday, meaning it would be the last thing on peoples minds over the weekend, and there would be a possibility that this non story would eclipse the actual problems that Trump is currently having.
It also gets him more free press.
