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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think Richard Ketay is really John Barron.
Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes.Posing as John Barron, he claimed he owned most of his fathers real estate empire.
In May 1984, an official from the Trump Organization called to tell me how rich Donald J. Trump was. I was reporting for the Forbes 400, the magazines annual ranking of Americas richest people, for the third year. In the previous edition, wed valued Trumps holdings at $200 million, only one-fifth of what he claimed to own in our interviews. This time, his aide urged me on the phone, I needed to understand just how loaded Trump really was.
The official was John Barron a name we now know as an alter ego of Trump himself. When I recently rediscovered and listened, for first time since that year, to the tapes I made of this and other phone calls, I was amazed that I didnt see through the ruse: Although Trump altered some cadences and affected a slightly stronger New York accent, it was clearly him. Barron told me that
Trump had taken possession of the business he ran with his father, Fred.
Most of the assets have been consolidated to Mr. Trump, he said. You have down Fred Trump [as half owner] .?.?. but I think you can really use Donald Trump now. Trump, through this sockpuppet, was telling me he owned in excess of 90 percent of his familys business. With all the home runs Trump was hitting in real estate, Barron told me, he should be called a billionaire.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-lied-to-me-about-his-wealth-to-get-onto-the-forbes-400-here-are-the-tapes/2018/04/20/ac762b08-4287-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html
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I think Richard Ketay is really John Barron. (Original Post)
Claritie Pixie
Oct 2019
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struggle4progress
(118,294 posts)1. That's ridiculous! Richard Ketay is obviously David Dennison!
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)2. I forgot about him! You may be right!
dawg day
(7,947 posts)3. Think about it-- Trump named his baby after his sock puppet
And his daughter after a jewelry store.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)4. Is this him?