Trump spokesperson on ‘John Miller’
Just one day after the presumptive GOP presidential nominee met with top Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump has said his temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States — as well as other of his cornerstone policies — are “just a suggestion.”
“It is true: Everything a candidate says is just a suggestion,” Katrina Pierson, the Trump campaign’s national spokeswoman, told Yahoo News Guest Anchor Paul Beban. “[Candidates] put forth what they want to see happen in the country, they put forth their policies, and their vision essentially of what they want to see happen in America. At the end of the day, Congress is going to have to go along with the program.”
Since he first issued a press release in December “calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,” Trump has continued to defend his stance on Muslim immigration. Pierson is not worried that calling them suggestions will change voters’ minds.
“What they do know is that Donald Trump will fight for his policies, which is something we haven’t seen a Republican do in a very long time,” said Pierson. “We have seen Republicans campaign on issues, they get elected and they capitulate to the opposite.”
Pierson also responded to a recent Washington Post article that reported that the real estate mogul pretended to be a Trump spokesperson named “John Miller” back in 1991. Trump has said that the released recording “was not me.”
“It doesn’t sound like Mr. Trump to me,” said Pierson. “It sounds like definitely a New Yorker, but it doesn’t sound like Mr. Trump. If he says it wasn’t him, then it wasn’t him.”
Though Trump has recently hired a finance chairman and is working with the Republican Party to start fundraising, Pierson said, “He is going to continue to self-fund, but the RNC will be participating as well.” She continued, “We want to be one entity moving into the general election, and in order to do that we should be helping each other.”
