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LOS ANGELES, May 26 (UPI) -- Donald Trump admitted to using aliases in real estate transactions but continued to deny he impersonated a spokesman during an interview with a People magazine reporter in the 1990s. "To me, that didn't sound like my voice," Trump said on Jimmy Kimmel Live of the interview recording, which surfaced earlier this month in a Washington Post article.
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"Nobody sounds like themselves when they hear themselves," Kimmel replied. "If it was you, I think it was a very funny thing to do, to call a guy up and take him through the ringer like that."
After that, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said he has used an alias in previous real estate deals because if people would have known it was him "you had to pay more money for the land."
"If you tried to buy land, you used different names," Trump said.
Trump said he used the name Barron, which was one of the aliases questioned in the Post article, which some of the reporters quoted in the article said was the name Trump would use when pretending to be a spokesman for himself.
Trump told Kimmel he "made a very good deal using that name," which he has since given to his 10-year-old son.
Kimmel also will host Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders later this week and allowed Sanders to submit a question in advance for Trump. Sanders asked whether Trump would be willing to debate him prior to the June 7 California primary.
Trump said he would, provided the event was used as a fundraiser for "a worthy charity."
