(CNN) A former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter alleged Saturday that Donald Trump called her the c-word back in the 1980s. Jennifer Lin, who was based in New York, wrote a story about Trump's business dealings in Atlantic City in 1988 when she received a phone call from Trump, she told CNN's Michael Smerconish Saturday. "The woman said hold for Mr. Trump. And then Mr. Trump began to yell at me. He told me I had s--- for brains. He told me I worked for a s----- newspaper and said what sort of s--- was I writing. I was stunned. He hung up."Jennifer Lin said she decided to share her story after watching Monday's presidential debateHer editor corroborated her account
"He remembers it exactly the way that you told it," _ said to Lin.