Republican political strategist: Why I didn't fall for Sacha Baron Cohen's attempt to prank me

Politico

Michael Caputo recalls receiving an email invite earlier this year that seemed fishy -- so much so that he did some investigating and decided not to cooperate. "Regardless of which side of the political aisle you are on, the stakes are too high nowadays to book a TV interview with a complete stranger," he writes in Politico. "We easily dodged a bullet, and our candidate never even entered the discussion. But Cohen’s team does a fairly good job faking it, with a solid pitch, fake news webpages and social media accounts that were enough to fool a Georgia state legislator."