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(Apparently it was a spoof, but still, the fact that for a minute we could imagine its true is pretty sad)
Just read on HuffPost that a caller who sounded an awful lot like TSF, and going by John Barron, TSFs pseudonym from the past, read SCOTUS the riot act. It would be hilarious, ok it kinda is, if he didnt have the nuclear codes.
Dave Bowman
(6,988 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(2,988 posts)True Dough
(26,242 posts)CSPAN
@cspan
Because so many of you are talking about Fridays C-SPAN caller who identified himself as John Barron, we want to put this to rest: it was not the president. The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered, in-person White-House meeting with the governors. Tune into C-SPAN for the actual president at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.
MustLoveBeagles
(15,497 posts)I was skeptical of it being him.
ybbor
(1,733 posts)Unfortunately, its a shame that we could even imagine our president doing such a sadly, ridiculous act.
But thanks for providing the info!
✌🏻
IzzaNuDay
(1,271 posts)Barron is his sons name
John is his middle name
what a fool!
MustLoveBeagles
(15,497 posts)In this instance it wasn't him. See post 3.
Jack Valentino
(4,743 posts)I didn't hear the actual thing myself---
although the perpetrator, as I read from news quotes,
seemed to have gotten the 'Trump thing'
about not being able to finish a single complete sentence
just about right !!!