{"id":88610,"date":"2016-05-16T12:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=88610"},"modified":"2016-05-16T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:56:31","slug":"did-donald-trump-build-his-fortune-by-saving-money-on-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/did-donald-trump-build-his-fortune-by-saving-money-on-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Donald Trump build his fortune by saving money on PR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Presidential hopeful Donald Trump isn\u2019t short of a bit of cash \u2013 but was he able to build his immense fortune by saving a little bit of money on PR?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A recent article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-elections\/donald-trump-pretends-to-be-his-own-spokesman-to-boast-about-himself-a7027991.html\">The Independent<\/a> shows how the billionaire property developer, reality TV star and great white hope of US right wing politics allegedly managed to save a few dollars from his PR budget by employing himself as his own official spokesperson throughout the 1970s, \u201880s and \u201890s.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, journalists contacting Trump\u2019s office could expect to speak with his spokesperson John Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is where it gets a little bit crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Miller didn\u2019t only appear to know \u201cThe Donald\u201d intimately, he spoke very candidly of his clients exploits with a series of \u201cbeautiful\u201d women \u2013 surely beyond the remit of any PR professional. Even stranger, his voice sounded precisely like Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>When Sue Creswell a journalist at People Magazine, sought to make sense Trump\u2019s complicated love life, John Millar asked her: \u201cHave your met him?\u201d and followed up by saying: \u201cHe\u2019s a good guy, and he\u2019s not going to hurt anybody.\u201d Millar was also keen to share the Trump was \u201c\u2026starting to do tremendously well financially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around the same period, if Miller wasn\u2019t available, press calls were occasionally handled by another gentleman called John. According to journalists, John Barron also sounded very similar to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Millar and Barron would nearly always refer to their client as \u201che\u201d \u2013 but there were occasional slip-ups when they answered as Trump in the first person.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump once admitting in court that: \u201cI believe on occasion I used that name.\u201d he has since denied ever using the false names.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publishing, Donald Trump was not available to The Independent for comment. It\u2019s not known whether they were able to reach John Miller or John Barron.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/965c82e2-188e-11e6-971a-dadf9ab18869\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is this the voice of Donald Trump or his spokesperson John Miller? PR genius or complete madness \u2013 you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential hopeful Donald Trump isn\u2019t short of a bit of cash \u2013 but was he able to build his immense fortune by saving a little bit of money on PR?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":88613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7272],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}