Gwenda Blair on CNN: Trump didn't invent this idea, his father posed as someone else on the phone

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Tweet from CNN's Ana Cabrera, fifteen minutes ago, with video:

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“He didn’t invent this idea. His father did this, his father posed as someone else on the phone. …it was kind of like a joke in the family.” @GwendaLBlair on Trump using an alias to make calls to reporters.

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Editing to add that this is a tidbit about Trump's family background I'd missed earlier. Here's an excerpt from a 2016 Fortune article by Michael D'Antonio:

http://fortune.com/2016/05/18/donald-trump-fake-names/

Trump’s father, Fred, had used a fake name – Mr. Green – to conduct business that he wanted to keep secret. He was well-known as a developer in the outer boroughs of New York, and he wanted to inquire about properties without tipping his hand. In theory, owners who knew that wealthy Fred Trump was interested would bargain more aggressively. “Mr. Green” was well known by his children. When Donald began using John Baron alias, the joke inside the family was that on the day became the subject of a subpoena, poor Baron would fall ill and die.

He used Baron, and later, Miller, to avoid trouble, float ideas, and even spread gossip about himself. In all these cases he sought to protect and polish the Trump image, or brag in ways that would be unseemly, even for a man who is synonymous with self promotion.