The Chicago president of the Young Republicans, a chapter of the Young Republican National Federation, decided that he was fed up with all of the talk about President Donald Trump’s tax returns and so he was going to embarrass the media if they continued to beat the topic to death.
He got a chance when his local CBS affiliate asked him for a quote on Trump’s tax returns. What followed was some of the greatest trolling we have seen in a long time.
The best part: The station never realized that they had just been punked.
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Jeff Halm tweeted about the incident in which he was asked about Trump’s tax returns and decided to quote a famous Hillary Clinton line she used during the Benghazi hearings.
“I wanted something that conveyed my disdain for the line of questioning,” Halm told Red Alert Politics. “I wanted to push a little to see if they knew I was messing with them.”
Spoiler alert: They didn’t.
Halm found the perfect line: “What difference, at this point, does it make.”
Halm was quoted by WBBM reporter Sandra Torres, and the station literally never caught on to the fact that this was an epic troll. See the video below:
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You guys. I trolled my local CBS affiliate. They were asking about Trump's tax returns, so I quoted Hillary. The reporter has no idea. pic.twitter.com/rZhSRXNToG
— Jeff Halm (@jeffhalm) April 16, 2017
You’ll remember Clinton’s quote during the hearings:
Halm also commented that this troll was intentional but not pre-planned.
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“Halm said he didn’t plan to troll the CBS affiliate,” Red Alert Politics wrote, “but grew tired with their line of questioning. He noted that the interview was not only a win for him, but a win for CYR.”
“If they paraphrased me, I’d get quoted saying the protest was immaterial (which it is); if they direct-quoted me, I was hoping the internet would run with it (which it has, to some extent),” Halm explained.
Absolutely brilliant!
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