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Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical seven-episode Showtime series “Who Is America?” has made headlines for tricking celebrities and politicians including Ted Koppel, Roy Moore, Joe Arpaio and more. <\/p>\n
But not everyone Cohen has tried to dupe fell for the liberal comedian’s antics. In fact, many of his marks easily saw through the now-decades-old act, and avoided becoming Cohen’s punchline.<\/p>\n
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was able to avoid becoming a mockery when invited onto Cohen’s Showtime series.<\/p>\n
Lewandowski kept to his talking points as Cohen continuously prodded him with ridiculous questions, such as asking him about the far-right conspiracy theory that PBS is owned by the “Rastafarian lobby.”<\/p>\n
“I wouldn’t know anything about that,” a cool Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n
Cohen posed as “Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr,” a right-wing conspiracy theorist and “citizen journalist.” He also asked the former Trump staffer to speak on a variety of sensitive topics such as his stance on neo-Nazis and if Trump is racist.<\/p>\n
“I had the privilege of standing and sitting next to candidate Trump — and now the president— for thousands of hours over my tenure running his campaign. Never, ever, ever did I ever hear him utter a racist word in his life. Ever,” Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) also didn’t fall for the comedian’s tricks when he was interviewed by Cohen, in character, as an Israeli anti-terror expert named Col. Erran Morad.<\/p>\n
Cohen as Morad was trying to convince Gaetz to endorse a fictional program called “Kinderguardians,” which would arm America’s children to help prevent school shootings.<\/p>\n
“You want me to say on television that I support 3 and 4-year-olds with firearms?” Gaetz asked Cohen. “Is that what you’re asking me to do?”<\/p>\n
Cohen replied, “Yes.”<\/p>\n
“Typically, members of Congress don’t just hear a story about a program and indicate whether they support it or not,” Gaetz said.<\/p>\n
Gaetz spoke to “Fox & Friends” about being on the show, and said he was skeptical because his mother taught him to be that way.<\/p>\n
“Good makeup artistry, good acting by Sacha Baron Cohen,” Gaetz said. “They catch members of Congress at the end of the day, a little frustrated, a little tired. And I think they got some of my colleagues to say things they likely regret.” (FoxNews)<\/p>\n
In February 2017, Warrior One Guns & Ammo agreed to participate in a documentary about a Hungarian immigrant wanting to buy a gun in the United States. But when the store’s owner, Norris Sweidan, saw the film’s subject, he quickly realized he was getting duped.<\/p>\n
(FoxNews)<\/p>\n
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