I really, really fail to see anything to worry about in these transcripts. People do call others. I deal with 'frenemies' all the time. :-)

Susoni

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Donald Trump’s primary rivals for the Republican nomination, Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, have both called on Trump to authorize The New York Times to release a transcript or recording of an interview he conducted with the newspaper, a portion of which was off the record. They think the recording will reveal that Trump is not the version of himself he presents to Republican voters—politically incorrect and unafraid of offending liberal elites—but in fact that the authentic Trump is a creature of elite Manhattan society, who counts among his personal friends many members of the decadent liberal media, and whose natural habitat is an Upper East Side cocktail party. As Cruz has put it, Trump has “New York values.”

http://gawker.com/voicemails-appear-to-reveal-donald-trumps-cozy-relation-1762690660

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Donald Trump's campaign has fired a legal threat against a website that published voicemails hacked from one of the Republican front-runner's telephones, apparently left years ago by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, NBC News host Tamron Hall, boxing promoted Don King and NFL quarterback Tom Brady.

Hackers linked with 4chan, a chaotic online message board known most recently for publishing hacked nude photos of celebrities in 2014, plumbed the depths of a Trump cellphone that surfaced last April.

Gawker, the gossip website that first publicized that number, also published the voicemails on Friday.

A Trump campaign spokeswoman told the site that the voicemails aren't necessarily authentic because they came from 'a public phone, not a private phone.'

'As you know, it is illegal to break into phones. We will hold you and all other parties involved responsible.'

The spokeswoman declined further comment when contacted by DailyMail.com. But Trump is litigious and has sued – and counter-sued – many people over the years who erect roadblocks to his success.

He has argued in the past week during campaign events that he wants to 'open up the libel laws' in America so he can also sue media outlets that publish false information about him.

Gawker argues that the messages indicate Trump's coziness with 'liberal' news personalities – which would clash with his election-year image as a hard-charging conservative who bashes journalists as 'dishonest' and 'scum' on the campaign trail.

But if the voicemails date from 2012, they would be consistent with his self-groomed image as a former Democrat whose political transformation led him to run for office as a Republican.

Scarborough, co-host of the 'Morning Joe' program, has been criticized along with Brzezinski for being overly chummy with Trump, giving him a soft-glove treatment when he comes on their show.

The MSNBC anchor says in one of the messages that 'the kids want to scream "Thank you" to you, Donald.'

He then has a group of kids yell 'Thank you!'

'We are so, so grateful for everything, Donald, and we just want to call you and tell you how much it means to us,' Scarborough says.

Brzezinski chimes in: 'It was amazing. Thank you, Donald. Hope to talk to you soon. Bye.'