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In what may be the weirdest story of this campaign year, the Washington Post reported that in the 1980s and 1990s, Donald Trump frequently spoke with reporters while claiming to be someone else — a public relations man named John Baron, who didn’t actually exist.

It turns out that “Baron” worked as a PR man for Trump’s team in the United States Football League, the New Jersey Generals. And football reporters at the time were skeptical that Baron actually existed, and convinced it was Trump on the phone when they talked with Baron.

Although the Washington Post story made waves when it was published this week, it’s actually old news in the football world. The Bergen Record published a story in 1985 saying that when the New Jersey Generals spokesman going by John Baron talked to reporters on the phone, “The guy sounds just like Donald, the same voice,” and noting how odd it is that while Baron is available to talk on the phone, “Baron never shows up at General games.”

Trump is denying that he ever pretended to be Baron or another spokesman who went by the name John Miller, but the 1991 recording of an interview with the spokesman, published by the Washington Post, removes any doubt: It was Trump. No matter how much he might wish now that he could say it was someone else making the decisions that led to the downfall of the USFL.