RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said he doesn't believe that voters care about seeing Donald Trump's tax returns. | AP Photo Priebus: Trump as own spokesman 'a little bit odd'

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday dismissed reports that Donald Trump had once posed as his own spokesman as a “little bit odd,” and not something that’s going to change voters’ minds.

“It’s a little bit odd, but I’ll tell you that I think of all the things facing our nation right now … and that particular issue isn’t going to move the electorate,” he told John Dickerson on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”


The Washington Post reported last week that Trump may have gone by the names "John Miller" and "John Barron" while speaking to reporters in decades past. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has denied those claims, despite admitting in past interviews that a call from "John Miller" was a "joke gone awry."

“There’s going to be lots of stories,” said Priebus, who went on to say that he believes voters are more concerned about someone who can bring change to Washington.

Dickerson pressed Priebus on Trump’s unreleased tax returns. Trump remarked last week that his tax rate is no one’s business, seemingly shutting the door on the possibility that voters could see those records before November, if at all.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if people don’t care,” Priebus said about the returns. “I don’t think that’s something that’s going to move the electorate.”

With regard to the longstanding history of candidates releasing tax returns, Priebus did say that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — who has sharpened her attack on Trump as she has pivoted toward the general election — should be “careful” not to throw stones in glass houses.

“She’s not going anywhere in that regard,” he said.

