Mayor Andy Burnham says he exchanged messages with a person who was impersonating a top aide to US President Donald Trump, according to multiple reports.
The accounts describe how the person contacted Burnham while presenting themselves as the Trump chief of staff, leading to Burnham communicating with them before the situation was identified. The outlets refer to the messages as part of the discovery that the contact was not who it claimed to be.
While the reports agree on the core point—that Burnham communicated with someone posing as a Trump senior official—they vary in wording and emphasis. Some describe the contact as an “impersonator” while others frame it as a person “posing” as a top aide, but all present the episode as a case of mistaken identity that comes to light after the messages were exchanged.
