In March, the Washington Post ran a story about how Donald Trump had a long-running habit of calling reporters and pretending to be a spokesman named "John Barron." (The real-estate heir said under oath in a 1990 lawsuit that "I believe on occasion I used that name.") On Friday, the Post has an even more fantastic scoop: A 14-minute tape of an individual who very clearly seems to be Trump, but says he is a spokesman named "John Miller," telling a People magazine reporter in great detail that Donald Trump has, like, a ton of girlfriends. Here's the tape:

John Miller's voice sounds like a slightly flatter version of Donald Trump's, with the same New York accent and the same hyperbolic speech patterns: "He's starting to do tremendously well financially," "Miller" says of his "boss." "He gets called by everybody in the book, in terms of women." The alleged spokesman says that Trump is "living with Marla [Maples]" but has "three other girlfriends" and even claims that Italian-French model/singer Carla Bruni "dropped Mick Jagger for Donald." Amazing! Pressed on his credentials by reporter Sue Carswell, "Miller" says that "I’m sort of new here" and that "I basically worked for different firms." But both gossip reporter Cindy Adams and Marla Maples told Carswell that the voice on the phone was Trump, and he apparently then admitted as much:

A few weeks later, when People ran a story about Trump and Maples getting engaged, Trump was quoted saying that the John Miller call was a “joke gone awry.”

And yet, when the Today show asked Trump on Friday morning about the story and played him part of the tape, he completely denied having made the call:

No, I don’t think it—I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time and it doesn’t sound like my voice at all. I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and then you can imagine that, and this sounds like one of the scams, one of the many scams—doesn’t sound like me. ... It was not me on the phone. And it doesn’t sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that, and it was not me on the phone. 

Ha! Classic scam, to call up a People magazine reporter in order to do an imitation of Donald Trump doing an imitation of a person named "John Miller" who doesn't actually exist but wants to talk at length about how attracted women are to Donald Trump.