Radio Host Fired After Airing Fake Trump Interview

Trump’s lawyer Donald McGahn told the Atlanta Journal Constitution in an email Wednesday that McCoy pieced together a year-old interview with Trump and passed it off as new.

A long-time Atlanta-area radio host is in hot water for apparently airing a falsified interview with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Steve McCoy, now the morning show co-host at NewsRadio 106.7, claimed that he conducted a phone interview with Trump and broadcast it on air.

When a BuzzFeed reporter raised questions about the interview, including its odd lack of discussion about Trump’s current campaign for president, McCoy said that Trump’s handlers had nixed any policy questions.

A former Star 94 employee who declined to be identified since he is still in the business told me that at Star, repackaging or recycling old celebrity interviews to sound like they were fresh was perfectly acceptable during the time he worked there.

“This interview did not take place”, a furious Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.

“I got suspended and I’m taking my punishment”, he tells BuzzFeed News.

“It is a fraud and/or a spoof”.

On Thursday, according to BuzzFeed, McCoy copped to having recycled the old interview. The radio host admitted it was a fraud to our attorney, apologized and he is now hiding and not returning anyone’s call.

“There’s Donald Trump from yesterday our conversation with him”, he said at the end.

“For obvious reasons Steve McCoy no longer works at the station”, program director Greg Tantum said Friday.

Both Locke and the AJC’s Rodney Ho argued that McCoy is “not a journalist”.