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He pretended to be me, and I pretended to be him.
"I've never pretended to be a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," Trump said.
We pretended to be caterers, publicists, journalists, and other VIPs.
Since then Shias in Egypt have pretended to be Sunnis.
With robotic focus, Clinton even pretended to be Elizabeth Warren.
She pretended to be 15 so they could get married.
Riley allegedly showed up and pretended to be his friend.
I pretended to be more comfortable than I actually was.
The defendants and their co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists.
I could have gone up and pretended to be somebody else.
My heart broke a little, as I pretended to be unaffected.
" He admitted the president-elect "never pretended to be a theologian.
I'm a lawyer and I never pretended to be an economist.
While she held onto my passport, we pretended to be friends.
As kids, we all pretended to be different sorts of people.
Antinozzi reportedly pretended to be a slave auctioneer during the simulation.
They just happen not to be who they pretended to be.
"Reid just never pretended to be something he wasn't," Krone said.
We pretended to be sportscasters on ESPN, recapping highlights and embarrassments.
Among the few survivors were some who pretended to be dead.
I'm human and I have never pretended to be anything but.
He grabbed the flip-phone and pretended to be having a conversation.
Is it the Realist mirage that pretended to be revolutionary—and failed?
Wagner said she first pretended to be asleep, hoping he would stop.
Scott has never pretended to be anything more than a role player.
Instead, he gave into temptation and pretended to be someone he wasn't.
I pretended to be OK at school and fell apart at home.
Police said the men pretended to be customers before ransacking the store.
At first it pretended to be the world, and then it was.
He pretended to be different Americans or American grassroots groups on social media.
Participants held tripods and selfie sticks and pretended to be chasing a celebrity.
She pretended to be exasperated, but this former horse girl was secretly thrilled.
"Not even for a split second," Corden replied, jokingly pretended to be hurt.
In the early days of parenting I pretended to be confounded by swaddling.
Her own voice or the voice of the boy she pretended to be.
She'd pretended to be sick so that she could skip the following lesson.
Adam says the catfisher even pretended to be various members of Gabriella's family.
I could offer my opinion, but then, I never pretended to be a psychologist.
Someone even pretended to be him and called in bomb threats to his school.
Police said the bomber was a teenager who had pretended to be a worshipper.
Wiredu acknowledged that he had called himself Amara and pretended to be South African.
His way was not revolutionary, and I don't think he ever pretended to be.
In hindsight, I don't think he was as loyal as he pretended to be.
I pretended to be scared because I thought that's what I was supposed to be.
As part of the lesson, children pretended to be runaway slaves navigating the Underground Railroad.
At first he pretended to be okay with it, but it soon came between us.
She just pretended to be dumb to get a boy to keep talking to her.
I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not.
Maybe it would actually have been what it pretended to be for all this time.
Although wounded, "he pretended to be dead, escaped, and we spoke to him," she said.
They also pretended to be a New York Post reporter to share pro-Iranian propaganda.
So, I often pretended to be Spider-Man or Sherlock Holmes or even James Bond.
Graham said that he preached caution and that Trump became exasperated, or pretended to be.
Instead, Kris says he pretended to be Blake Griffin when he was out in public.
Other fake personas, though, pretended to be progressives or liberals, attacking Trump and praising Democratic candidates.
He pretended to be his own publicist back when he was just a real estate billionaire.
In 2014, someone pretended to be DeLillo on Facebook and said they were crowdsourcing a story.
I pretended to be everything from a low-level shoplifter to a middle-market drug dealer.
After all, who knows you better than all the people you pretended to be one time?
The German soldier who shot him kicked his head and Optatius Buyssens pretended to be dead.
The mashed potatoes were awful, but then Mr. Gokce has never pretended to be Spud Bae.
She pretended to be a German heiress, bilking Manhattan hotels, banks and a private jet operator.
The guy even pretended to be embarrassed at the end and threw his towel at James.
He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer.
From that lesson emerged a strategy: Democrats would prove themselves the fighters Trump only pretended to be.
" When asked whether she still loves her ex, Pulliam said she loves "who he pretended to be.
The NCRI said the couple arrested in Belgium had pretended to be supporters of the People's Mujahideen.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he begins.
" In addition to apologizing, Hill said, "I am not a perfect person and never pretended to be.
This shows a kind of intelligence, but not necessarily that of the wunderkind I've pretended to be.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said.
"I went to her office and pretended to be a flower delivery person," Greene, 67, tells PEOPLE.
They're very clever, Sauvé said, adding that the birds pretended to be injured during a news conference.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said.
News first reported, Fergie joined Hammer onstage, interrupting his speech as she pretended to be the actor.
" "Judd approached me when he was 16 and pretended to be an interviewer for a radio station.
"Jeremy had planned to have a photographer there and he pretended to be a fan," says Maldonado.
A month later, Watters pretended to be a big boy reporter and made an ass of himself.
Yet the president gave no signs of distinguishing the prankster from the senator he pretended to be.
I also pretended to be terrified of things Penelope would never fear, like her heart-patterned socks.
When they first telephoned her, she pretended to be her mother-in-law to put them off.
Elizabeth has pretended to be herself for so long that she's not entirely sure who "herself" is.
A fixer for the news organization pretended to be a wealthy Sri Lankan businessman, and potential client.
He was allowed to become Hooded Justice, a superhero, but only if he pretended to be white.
Are you saying you just pretended to be a racist to whip up support from racist voters?
The wounded police pretended to be dead as Taliban finished off anyone who appeared to be alive.
When asked about the referendum, he stopped in his tracks and pretended to be hard of hearing.
In October, the company took down Russian-backed accounts that pretended to be from political battleground states.
He argued that while Mr. Berlusconi pretended to be coarse during campaigns, he was really a sophisticate.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus pretended to be Questlove DJing, complete with his afro pick in her own straight hair.
Elliott was Charlotte's (Vanessa Ray) therapist, meaning Archer Dunhill has pretended to be Elliott for over five years.
I agree with the Volvo engineer who said Tesla's system pretended to be more capable than it was.
Pretend you're watching Thrones the same way you pretended to be into Lost or the Elena Ferrante novels.
Suspecting his intentions, Darel said she pretended to be dating her costar to get him to back off.
Remember that Titanic story about the guy who pretended to be a woman and snuck onto a lifeboat?
The problem with what you and your friend did wasn't that you pretended to be a lesbian couple.
BDSM or S&M is something you pretended to be into to compensate for your lack of personality.
Sitting in his car from across the street, Mitnick pretended to be a McDonald's employee, taking customers' orders.
In the past, I didn't think God would like me much unless I pretended to be someone else.
While his friends played with toy soldiers, he toted a leather briefcase and pretended to be a stockbroker.
Then he asked, "Why are you so cold?" and I pretended to be asleep because I didn't know.
Users have pretended to be infected, and harmful stereotypes about people of Asian descent are on the rise.
So I stood in the corner, pretended to be busy on my phone, and eventually left empty handed.
About an hour later, she woke up again to Preston beside the bed and pretended to be asleep.
Initially, the business "pretended to be the manufacturer," opting to be less transparent as a means to entice customers.
The ISIS fighters wore military uniforms and pretended to be members of the Iraqi federal police, manning a checkpoint.
You can use this sentence starter to help you answer the question: I pretended to be _________ when I was _________.
He pretended to be a soldier seeking asylum in Canada to escape anti-Semitic attacks in the United States.
She and her friend ducked into an alleyway, pretended to be smoking cigarettes when a regime thug spotted them.
Redditor EndlessLazer posted a handwritten note from a little girl, Lily, who cleverly pretended to be her dad, a.k.a.
That night, A. pretended to be asleep, and at 1 in the morning he climbed silently out of bed.
Worse, might it draw creepy men, like the ones who pretended to be widowers and stalked my Facebook page?
Then there was the 2010 stunt, in which his associates pretended to be telephone repairmen to sneak into Sen.
In the past, con artists from Nigeria often pretended to be princes in trouble to get your personal information.
Lester managed to stream for hours because he pretended to be playing the new UFC game from Electronic Arts.
Coleman says Allen's allegations that he pretended to be a woman to obtain "private information" about Ray are false.
One of the accounts even pretended to be the cousin of an African American who died in police custody.
Considering he allegedly once pretended to be his own publicist, Trump probably knew responding would create more press ruckus.
It rained here the night the president pretended to be an environmentalist during the State of the Union address.
Some even strapped tool belts to their waists and pretended to be craftsmen, disguising newspapers under their thick clothes.
Trump never pretended to be a man of the people; he bragged about his wealth on the campaign trail.
But "the Mooch" fell for the prank not just once, but twice, as the prankster also pretended to be Huntsman.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in the statement.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he began in the statement.
He tells us about a parody account that pretended to be him and stepped over the line of what's acceptable.
Benchmark revisions indicate this labor market isn't as youthful as it has pretended to be over the last two years.
She had tried to overlay her values and her views, he said, on the people she pretended to be helping.
Some members of Archimedes pretended to be local news organizations that "published allegedly leaked information about politicians," according to Facebook.
Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be a Native American in order to advance her career.
The attacker pretended to be CEO Evan Spiegel while asking for employees' payroll information, according to a company blog post.
Huang and D'Arcy of Poncho practiced for hours, and at one point, their colleagues pretended to be the different mentors.
She encountered Margaret, the Duchess of Montenaro, and the two women pretended to be each other and live different lives.
The Kremlin and its viceroys have pretended to manage, and the people on the ground have pretended to be loyal.
The supervisor pretended to be from the United States Pacific Command in a phone call placed to day-shift workers.
A YouTuber called out 2 TikTok stars for a prank where they pretended to be in a violent, abusive relationship
This has made it easy prey for charlatans like Paul Ryan, who pretended to be serious about his fiscal principles.
Always opposed to what he has called "politically incorrect nonsense," he never pretended to be your Sensitive New Age Guy.
Sanderson Farms, the third-largest chicken producer in the U.S., has never pretended to be against feeding antibiotics to its birds.
Clearly, he pretended to be dead after the "You're Mine" thug shot him, eliminating the possibility of any more bodily harm.
Bill Clinton never pretended to be some kind of cultural conservative who claimed that everyone should live by certain personal standards.
The first group date was "wedding photos," where the women pretended to be taking shots to commemorate themed matrimonies with Nick.
The base has already hosted a reality television show, in which six celebrities pretended to be astronauts facing life-threatening challenges.
While John pretended to be a doctor, Dr. Duntsch is, amazingly, the real deal — just, it seems, a very bad one.
This is the same girl who pretended to be Alice Webster, framed the innocent Kristian Hertz and faked her own death.
But he also observes that "the crown prince has never pretended to be a political reformer," which is not entirely true.
Sarah Palin The former vice presidential candidate said Cohen pretended to be a wounded veteran during her interview with the actor.
Blue Apron CEO Brad Dickerson told Axios' Dan Primack that the company pretended to be a technology business when it wasn't.
If not for my precarious reproductive situation, I probably would have pretended to be ambivalent about kids for 10 more years.
To enhance the feeling of intimacy, Mr. Chiu pretended to be a host and spoke to the audience about each piece.
Mr. Broome said the girl pretended to be a transfer student and knew class schedules and instructors' names at the university.
They gathered and pretended to be monkeys, lions, slugs, and other members of the animal kingdom straight up doing the deed.
After all, this is a man who, in the 1980s, pretended to be his own spokesman on phone conversations with reporters.
A YouTuber called out a questionable prank by two TikTok stars where they pretended to be in a violent, abusive relationship.
She's pretended to blow dry her callers' asses, counselled them through their wives' infidelity, and even pretended to be a squirrel.
Eventually, Ferrara pieced together the truth: He learned that Biegler was not nearly as polished and rich as he pretended to be.
At some point in your life, sat in front of a computer screen, you have almost definitely pretended to be a hacker.
He also pretended to be a veteran who worked for Apple, persuading a Beverly Hills dentist to do $28,000 worth of work.
" On Saturday, Trump released a statement saying: "I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not.
I was weaker at the time and pretended to be fine with her going to live on a sailboat for a year.
He is white and He pretended to be a Japanese writer to get work at his publisher in violation of the rules.
We already know from a sworn deposition that Trump pretended to be his own spokesperson, "John Barron," in the 1980s and 90s.
Perhaps the strangest thing about it is that Trump pretended to be busy when his public schedule for the day was empty.
LONDON — The 26-year-old man pretended to be a teenage girl to meet boys and young men on online chat forums.
It's worth recalling that at his confirmation hearing in January he pretended to be unaware of what the "emoluments clause" even is.
And what's driving the U.S. economy now is the very deficit spending Republicans pretended to be horrified by during the Obama years.
And in this instance, my own professional career took inspiration from a 1980's actor who pretended to be an FBI agent.
Just to add a little sauce on it, I pretended to be devastated so he didn't suspect he had granted my wish.
Republicans never actually cared about debt; they just pretended to be deficit hawks as a way to hamstring President Barack Obama's agenda.
They were, however, predicted on the assumption that Fred Rogers was a completely different person than he pretended to be on PBS.
It wasn't until she spoke to the New York Times that Swinton finally admitted that she pretended to be Ebersdorf to play Klemperer.
Mark&aposs son, 24-year-old Marcus Ling, even approached the woman and asked her to move, but she pretended to be asleep.
The Times reported last week that AET funneled money to a project that used a Facebook page where people pretended to be conservatives.
As for why they pretended to be in Puerto Rico when they were actually in Mexico, we're not even going to touch that.
Have you ever acted in a play, pretended to be a famous athlete when you play sports, or imagined yourself in a movie?
He slyly pretended to be a part of Mayweather's entourage, and no one asked questions, checked his ticket, or noticed he didn't belong.
A Texas man reportedly pretended to be a police officer to get to the front of a Whataburger drive-thru line in 2015.
The woman said she was stunned and pretended to be asleep because she feared what would happen if he knew she was awake.
He pretended to be confused by the British actor's British accent, and at one point asked Holland if he could lick his shoe.
The group allegedly used the Grindr app and pretended to be a lone gay man, who arranged to meet at the victims' homes.
And by that I mean called the dude whose name was on the Gumtree listing and pretended to be interested in the flat.
The agents reportedly pretended to be Garcia's cousin, sending text messages from her cellphone indicating that she had been in a car accident.
He used the same apology statement as the Dobre Brothers, and pretended to be stony faced and miserable when a fan walked in.
Asrary then pretended to be Bieber, and demanded the girl send nude photos of herself and threatened to hurt her if she refused.
When Tywin finally joined the rebellion, he pretended to be Aerys's ally one more time in order to gain entry to the city.
She wasted time waiting to be discovered, chased after empty material success and pretended to be someone she didn't even want to be.
So she had seven fugitives hide under the bed and then got in, pulled the covers over herself and pretended to be sick.
A stripper and porn star by trade, she has never pretended to be someone she's not and has a reputation for demanding respect.
Republicans were never the patriots they pretended to be, but at this point they've pretty much crossed the line into being foreign agents.
"  In an Instagram story, Turner pretended to be an influencer and said, "Hey, guys, just kind of going for my influencer look today.
The bomber was dressed in a police uniform and pretended to be disabled, infiltrating the crowd before detonating his explosive, Mr. Hassani said.
Meanwhile, Kris dressed as Khloe in a long bleached-blond wig, and Kendall Jenner pretended to be Kylie showing off her makeup range.
Lawrence also said she believes Chapman pretended to be Feden while communicating with her family, using Feden's Facebook account to message with them.
In his opening statement, Spodek argued the system is "easily seduced by glamour and glitz" so Delvey pretended to be wealthy to get ahead.
She forged emails, staged an embarrassing incident at a karaoke bar, and then pretended to be engaged to her gay pal George (Rupert Everett).
"I have never pretended to be pretty or look good in clothing, I have never tried to be flashy or show off," she wrote.
Image: YouTube ScreenshotEarly this year, we all pretended to be shocked when we saw a video of monkeys having sex with deer in Japan.
For one night as he delivered his State of the Union address, Donald Trump pretended to be the president Republicans wish he really was.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in regards to the tape being released.
"I find it offensive that Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be Native American to get in Harvard," Trump tweeted.
Instead, their companies chucked motorized scooters on the city sidewalks, without the city's permission, and then pretended to be shocked when children rode them.
He allegedly said he pretended to be an ICE agent "to show everyone that he was 'somebody' and had done something with his life."
Nazi collaborators who pretended to be picking mushrooms in the forest, looking for Jews to betray to the Germans, were arrested, interrogated and shot.
Cohen never pretended to be a disabled vet, Showtime insists, echoing what Cohen's character already wrote in an open letter to Palin last week.
To gain entry in the home, Kvitová said he pretended to be a workman inspecting her flat's hot water system, according to The Guardian.
Besides, any novel pretended to be true, and a good "open" text would spur the reader to judge and interpret that truth for himself.
The woman who pretended to be mentally ill and threw crickets over an entire D train car in August calls herself a performance artist.
Though the producers "pretended to be very remorseful," Paige told me that all the footage she asked to be cut was, in fact, used.
She pretended to be a mental patient for an article, "10 Days in a Madhouse," that led to reforms to a women's mental institution.
In one, they pretended to be older Mexicans, falling and injuring themselves as they tried to navigate the city's many rundown sidewalks in wheelchairs.
"Russia's trolls pretended to be American people, including political groups and candidates," Ms. Kim wrote in a post for the Brennan Center for Justice.
For years, Ms. Sorokin pretended to be Anna Delvey, a German heiress with a trust fund that paid for a life of glamorous ease.
In 1990, two thieves pretended to be police officers and robbed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, taking what's worth an estimated 500 million dollars.
Mr. Malek once even pretended to be a sales representative for one of the companies, giving his name as "Judy Jones," the suit said.
"I still am very comfortable playing female roles, because I pretended to be a woman for thirty years of my life," Bouk went on.
Anyone who's ever been to a dinner party that pretended to be friendly while feeling like open-heart surgery will read this in awe.
However, you could only get fired if you were actually not unable to work because of your sickness but only pretended to be sick.
The "Titanic" star has pretended to be American, Australian, Polish-Armenian and in her latest film, crime thriller "Triple 9", a Russian-Israeli mafia boss.
So I used "Help a Reporter Out," which I think is probably the most embarrassing open secret in media, and pretended to be an expert.
In a bid to prove she wasn't racist shortly after, she revealed she had pretended to be "a half-caste African" a few years prior.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in a video statement back in October 2016.
In this case, a young operative sitting at a computer in Canberra successfully pretended to be a senior terrorist fighting in a faraway war zone.
Over the last few weeks, Lee has pretended to be blissfully ignorant about his casual dog whistle racism when it comes to wrestler Kenny King.
But Anna Faris decided to go a different route and bond with the women who've pretended to be intimate with her famous husband, Chris Pratt.
Police in India this week arrested 70 people allegedly involved in a scam in which some pretended to be IRS agents, according to media reports.
My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.
In a court filing, prosecutors declined to reveal what agency or department may or may not have employed the individual who pretended to be Ghaada.
Also calling him Daddy while he pretended to be holding her as a sex slave in a crawl space underneath her own East Hampton kitchen.
The fellow model then became the victim of a pretty tame prank, in which Kennedy pretended to be an Uber driver who'd found Baldwin's phone.
I pretended to be everyone from a 34-year-old male Filipino software salesman to the 57-year-old female head of a production studio.
To do so, she pretended to be a mother seeking a school, an out-of-character assignment that appeared to be a moment of awakening.
In Iran, his relatives pretended to be Muslim to avoid harassment, performed religious rites in secret and were denied access to higher education, he said.
"President Trump has never pretended to be a Bible-banging evangelical," said Penny Young Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, a Christian conservative organization.
But Barr — who also served as attorney general during the George H.W. Bush administration — has pretended to be painfully ignorant about Trump's conflicts of interest.
Rather than Russians working in St. Petersburg posing as Americans, this time Democrats — most of them far from Alabama — pretended to be conservative state residents.
In the Lower East Side and Harlem, children pretended to be bride and groom, wore masks for Halloween or drew with chalk on the sidewalk.
A mutual friend who had agreed to accompany the groom on an investigation pretended to be injured and asked the bride to take his place.
The same person is responsible for both forged nominations and had pretended to be someone qualified to make the nomination, Njolstad told The Washington Post.
And I think there is no rational answer for what has happened, except that we pretended to be what we were for fifty, sixty years.
One, Oleg Kulik, pretended to be a dog: naked, chained, he barked at passers-by in a reminder of the animality beneath our civilizational veneer.
One, Oleg Kulik, pretended to be a dog: naked, chained, he barked at passers-by in a reminder of the animality beneath our civilizational veneer.
Its as if those retro, cold, text-only chat rooms on the Internet that pretended to be coffee-shops ended up inspiring physical coffee-shops.
The couple's 12,000-square-foot home features six bedrooms, or almost enough rooms for the eight-person crew team that Loughlin's daughters pretended to be on.
Meanwhile, her victims are just excited about working with Amy Pascal or Kathleen Kennedy — two of the many women she's pretended to be over the phone.
Photographer, Jan Hoek, became infatuated with a small group of men in Nairobi, who pretended to be pirates, even though they had never seen the ocean.
I could have just gone all-out, pretended to be mad and been dismissed, but the thing is I do want to serve in the army.
"I find it offensive that goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be Native American to get in Harvard," he tweeted last week.
First, the major issue: that YACHT pretended to be victims of a sex crime, further complicating the challenges of real-life victims to be taken seriously.
Another reason: Donald Trump is more popular than they are among the GOP base, and Trump is not nearly as conservative as they pretended to be.
And I think a lot of people pretended to be people they weren't on social media, and intentionally stirred up fights and ganged up in mobs.
When Mary Drake (Andrea Parker) pretended to be her twin sister, Jessica DiLaurentis, and hooked up with Peter Hastings (Nolan North), Mary got pregnant with twins.
Rogen tweeted some screen grabs from the exchange, in which he riled up Mitchell and then constantly pretended to be in a meeting when he replied.
The pressure to be chill is the reason I pretended to be cool with an open relationship, even though that shit is really not for me.
Playing to the crowd of thousands gathered to cheer him on, the president pretended to be Dr. Blasey testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday.
The breakthrough in the case came after they created a fake profile with a sample retrieved in 1980 and pretended to be someone researching family history.
It's hypocritical for Trump to be today's avatar of hostility to immigrants, since his own family suffered from anti-German sentiment and pretended to be Swedish.
This case sounds very similar to the story of Frederic Bourdin, the French man who pretended to be a missing 16-year-old boy from America.
A Pennsylvania man who allegedly kidnapped his girlfriend and pretended to be her while communicating with her family and friends has been arrested, police said Friday.
According to Facebook, Iranians pretended to be located in the U.S. and Europe, and used fake accounts that impersonated legitimate news organizations in the Middle East.
Jong Un is known to have been educated at an international school in Berne, Switzerland, where he pretended to be the son of an embassy chauffeur.
Russian hackers pulled off another successful—at least for a while—false flag when they pretended to be a patriotic hacker group called the Yemen Cyber Army.
Some people are saying they fibbed about the number of languages they speak, while others are saying they really aren't the team players they pretended to be.
Pratt appeared as part of a new segment titled "What Do You Have to Plug," and Kimmel pretended to be completely unaware of the first hit movie.
The impostor pretended to be in the US military and after gaining the woman's trust began asking for money to help with a series of fake emergencies.
The Virginia school's students were asked play a Black History Month "game" where they pretended to be runaway slaves navigating the Underground Railroad as they encountered obstacles.
BEFORE he ran to be president of Guatemala two years ago, Jimmy Morales pretended to be a presidential candidate in a television sitcom called "Moralejas" ("Cautionary Tales").
A tweet went viral claiming that a photographer said Tweeden had asked him to take a staged photo while she pretended to be asleep and Franken posed.
In the shot, Hyland held up her ring finger and stuck her tongue out while the Bachelorette alum pretended to be surprised by the giant diamond ring.
The Buffalo News is a real newspaper, and Rex is a huge football history buff so he pretended to be a former Bills lineman from the 1970s.
There was Vandenburg's roommate, Mack Prioleau, who pretended to be asleep while the woman was being raped and didn't call police or check on the victim afterward.
"Small-town sheriffs would begin telling their friends about the tourist who pretended to be the Dutch prime minister," said Erica Terpstra, a former Dutch sports official.
It's that time in the presidential election season when Donald Trump has to say he has never pretended to be his own spokesperson in interviews with reporters.
Prudence wore a disguise (also known as a glamour on the show) and pretended to be a woman from New Orleans named Miss Dubois, portrayed by Boltt.
A career con artist who often pretended to be a military veteran while engaging in schemes across the country was convicted on Wednesday for a recent charade.
She even planned a gender reveal photo shoot where she pretended to be pregnant and then wrapped Brown in a blanket as if he was a baby.
In an interview with New York's 92.3 AMP Radio, Sheeran revealed that he once pretended to be Calvin Harris to get into a party at Madonna's manager's house.
An older girl, someone who pretended to be her friend she says, was actually preying on Little, first luring her with drugs and then trafficking her for sex.
Authorities said a Florida man pretended to be famous on Instagram to lure a 17-year-old Texas girl to his Orlando home, where he raped her repeatedly.
Just when it seemed the Roy Moore sexual assault scandal couldn't get more unbelievable, someone went ahead and pretended to be a Washington Post reporter in a robocall.
To regain her good will, her husband has pretended to be enfeebled by a heart attack, but when Maude says she forgives him, he confesses that he's fine.
This feeling of being imposter haunts her — and it's a result of her time at Homecoming, where she knows deep down she pretended to be a good person.
So when Kristen Wiig pretended to be an elderly woman misreading her cue at Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards, many thought she was making a joke at Dunaway's expense.
The character reminded viewers of Rachel Dolezal, the real life former NAACP leader who made headlines in 2015 when it was revealed that she pretended to be black.
"I never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be something that I'm not," Trump said in a brief videotaped statement released shortly after midnight via Facebook.
In an apparent attempt to sound credible, some Lorde fans pretended to be underwhelmed by Lana Del Rey, an artist for whom they wish nothing but the best.
While I mixed the slime and pretended to be a mad scientist, Loftus tore up pages of Infinite Jest and prepared to add them to the slime mixture.
The speech pretended to be a thoughtful, relatively objective appeal for bipartisanship, but time and again, he presented a one-sided view of reality that was deeply partisan.
Netflix offered money to Anna Delvey — the woman who pretended to be a German heiress to swindle banks, hotels, and socialites — to make a TV series about her.
Palin, a 2008 vice presidential nominee, says she was duped into participating in an interview for the satirical show after Baron Cohen pretended to be a military veteran.
The trend has now culminated in the nomination of Donald J. Trump, a presidential candidate who truly is the know-nothing his Republican predecessors only pretended to be.
In the calls, the pranksters pretended to be Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, the Sun said, although it was not exactly clear how they had fooled the prince.
I see him as a guy who pretended to be all about balanced budgets but was really always just going for the tax cuts and screw the deficit.
At an ice cream shop, he pretended to be a clueless American tourist -- using affected Spanish, asking to see tourist attractions on the other side of the island.
During a news conference with Mr. Hollande, Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's prime minister, said the suicide bomber had pretended to be a man seeking to hire day laborers.
His lawyer said the victim was not Muslim or of Middle Eastern descent and he believed that the assailants pretended to be Middle Eastern to "scare" the victim.
White House special counsel Ty Cobb was duped by the same prankster in early September, who pretended to be the White House head of social media Dan Scavino.
Two journalists pretended to be travel bloggers to enter Xinjiang, the western Chinese province where police are intensely cracking down on the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority.
She has been quoted making racist comments and for claiming that she wasn't racist because she pretended to be "a half-cast African" in an iTV1 interview in 2004.
In the unedited version of Zamperini's statement she says that Pfeiffer, "... pretended to be my friend, she came to my home for an exclusive interview," Zamperini said in court.
Logic is a rapper who reportedly once pretended to be a high schooler working on a class project to avoid paying some costs involved in a music video shoot.
Authorities in Florida believe a man who is accused of murdering his in-laws also murdered his wife last year and pretended to be her to cover the crime.
In a popular television show Sergei Kuryokhin, a composer and artist, pretended to be a historian, arguing that Lenin ate psychedelic mushrooms and in the end turned into one.
Just a few months ago, we saw video of an Uber driver blowing through red lights, though it remains unclear if that guy also pretended to be a cop.
Kardashian pretended to be a tourist from Albuquerque, making friends with the driver who even highlighted the restaurant where Kim Kardashian West gets her go-to chinese chicken salad.
The hackers placed a fake message on the site that pretended to be the newspaper apologizing to PewDiePie, and claiming the newspaper fired journalists who had reported on him.
" The comedians in 2016 also pretended to be "undecided" voters during the presidential election and spoke with presidential candidates on the campaign trail in their Amazon Prime movie "Undecided.
Yesterday, a little girl's father tweeted out that his daughter pretended to be FaceTiming with Solange, only to have the artist respond herself wanting to make it a reality.
That November landing at SAS Institute wasn&apost the only time Desgroux pretended to be a general despite never serving in the U.S. military, prosecutor Barbara Kocher said Tuesday.
For example, in North Carolina, prosecutors refused to pursue charges against a woman who pretended to be her dead mother so that she could vote for Donald Trump twice.
For example, in the 103s, David (he prefers to go by his first name) pretended to be Alex Von Fürstenberg, the son of famed fashion designer Diane Von Fürstenberg.
Usually the most we can expect is a poignant end-credits glimpse of the real people our favorite movie stars have pretended to be for the previous two hours.
Though they were fantasies in so many other ways, most of Donald Trump's scams — from bankrupt casinos to phony universities — never really pretended to be in the public interest.
One of the best things about Loudon Wainwright III, who was raised among the country clubs of Westchester County, is that he's never pretended to be anything he isn't.
Past impostors, known as catfish in social media parlance, have switched gender or sexual orientation, pretended to be their sons or girlfriends, and even invented babies and dead pets.
One assailant had even dropped his gun and pretended to be an officer ushering panicked recruits into the apparent safety of the dining facility, one of the officials said.
Sarah Palin went on a Facebook tirade alleging that Cohen had pretended to be a disabled veteran and that his crew had dropped her off at the wrong airport.
He continued appearing on TV into the noughties, with cameos on Little Britain Abroad and Ricky Gervais' Extras, where he pretended to be caught taking drugs at the Bafta awards.
One pretended to be Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, and the newspaper says Johnson spoke to them for 18 minutes, discussing topics including the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal.
This wasn't the prankster's first major endeavor — they previously pretended to be Howard Stern and executives at Citibank and Goldman Sachs — but this one apparently came from a personal place.
For them, there seemed to be an important difference: Mr Trump was what he was, and made no bones about it, whereas she pretended to be a noble public servant.
Clinton's campaign said that three women in Iowa, including one named Allison Holmes, pretended to be supporters in an apparent effort to catch the campaign participating in an illegal activity.
During the 22008 World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, when Meloon was 22008, he climbed into her bed and digitally penetrated her while she pretended to be asleep, the lawsuit says.
"[Trump] used to be kind of like the boob of New York that pretended to be wealthy, or we thought was wealthy, and now he's just a psychotic," Letterman said.
Stout of frame and sweaty of brow, he looked more like a workaday suburban dad, which he is, than a celebrity chef, which he has never exactly pretended to be.
Mr. Nuttall, the judge wrote, "demonstrated a naïve, childlike demeanor right from the start" of his dealings with the undercover officers, who pretended to be bent on launching an attack.
For a year starting at age 4 he pretended to be a dog and padded around the house on all fours, woofing, which may have been his first acting experience.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," said Mr. Trump, a 70-year-old real estate developer and former reality television star.
So Homeland Security officials looking to evaluate the agency had a clever idea: They pretended to be terrorists, and tried to smuggle guns and bombs onto planes 7373 different times.
Jean-Raymond's family didn't think he could handle it, so every once in a while, they'd put him on the phone with an aunt who pretended to be his mother.
The tapes, recorded by an ally of Keiko Fujimori who pretended to be toying with the idea of switching sides, appeared to trace graft to the highest levels of government.
But as he sat with other believers in his high school auditorium, watching his mentor prowl the same stage where Foster had pretended to be Thoreau, he saw only artifice.
To avoid persecution and be accepted as naturalized citizens, many pretended to be Bengalis who migrated from East Pakistan before the 1971 war of independence, after which it became Bangladesh.
While members of Congress currying favor with the president by patronizing his businesses is pretty close to the textbook definition of corruption, McCarthy has pretended to be oblivious about it.
I sneaked inside a hotel lobby, hid in the bathroom for 45 minutes, pretended to be a guest as I re-emerged, and had the doorman hail me a cab.
Scientology honcho David Miscavige had reason to fear a guy who threatened to kill him, because we've learned the guy was armed with ammo and pretended to be a cop.
Anyone who's ever performed a mini concert in the comfort of their shower or pretended to be a guest on Carpool Karaoke knows that singing out loud, without restraint, feels amazing.
Johnson talked international relations and rude poetry with a hoax caller who pretended to be the Armenian prime minister in an embarrassing new gaffe for one of Britain's most prominent politicians.
On the July 29 episode, Moore sat down with Cohen who pretended to be an Israeli security expert named Erran Morad to discuss the development of a machine that detects pedophiles.
She had never been archetypal, or average – to play the "good" political wife, she merely pretended to be – and perhaps she now had the potential to be out and out extraordinary.
The Taliban sent out a 6-year-old girl, who unconvincingly pretended to be herding her goats while really reporting the location of the US soldiers by radio to the Taliban.
On the July 29 episode, Moore sat down with Cohen, who pretended to be an Israeli security expert named Erran Morad, to discuss the development of a machine that detects pedophiles.
EgyptAir's security procedures last came under scrutiny in March when a passenger on a domestic flight pretended to be wearing an explosive vest and forced the plane to land in Cyprus.
Mind you, mine was not plugged in because I was a child, not a teenager, but I 100% had one and definitely pretended to be making important phone calls on it.
She found her models on Tinder, just like in her last photo series, Lifeconstruction, in which she pretended to be in long-term relationships with people she had recently matched with.
We can talk about it for what it is, not what it pretended to be for so many decades, which allows us to criticize it in new, fun, more honest ways.
One assailant had pretended to be a wounded soldier, replete with an intravenous drip bottle attached to his arm, officials said, as the trucks passed through seven checkpoints toward the base.
We haven't seen the real Gargoyle King's face yet, though several people have pretended to be him, and he has appeared as a vision to plenty of people high on fizzle rocks.
The infamous hack of the cheaters' hook-up site revealed that it enticed men through an army of chatbots—more than 70,000 in all—that pretended to be women looking for flings.
I interpreted this as Mae becoming the true zealot the Circle's leaders pretended to be, turning on both the rebel and the establishment to lead the Circle toward a post-privacy world.
The man who pretended to be Justin Bieber, trolling the Internet looking for the singer's fans and strong-armed one of them to send nudes, will spend some serious time behind bars.
Instead of simply hiding food in their pockets, a group of creative friends in California taped half watermelons to their stomachs and pretended to be pregnant when they went to the movies.
While still a teenager she pursued her dream of being an artist, studying at 21950 (she pretended to be 505) at the National Academy of Design, and then the Art Students League.
Podcast host John Melendez, better known as "Stuttering John," pretended to be the Democratic senator from New Jersey last week by calling the White House and asking to speak to the President.
It was the first time I wasn't held a silent hostage by the hopes for the man I wanted him to be or the lies of the man he pretended to be.
The lesson to be learned from this is that President Trump is not the fighter he pretended to be during the campaign, but that he's actually someone who folds when credibly accused.
Last year, Google revealed how the company had used YouTube videos of the Mannequin Challenge (where people pretended to be frozen in place) to train a tool to predict depth in videos.
They pretended to be showing off their dramatic chops, declared they were passionate about production design and broke into a terrifically precise little musical medley to introduce the best costume design nominees.
Those who weren't immediately executed, like Ngor, a physician who pretended to be a taxi driver, were sent to detention camps where they died from being starved, worked to death and tortured.
Luckily, I had draped part of my comforter over the side of the bed where my boyfriend was, and I pretended to be half-asleep as my mom came into the room.
Though it started as a parody of straight-edge hardcore bands, as time has gone on, the a capella duo has become the reverently worshipped hardcore act they always pretended to be.
That's where a wannabe scammer pretended to be Emin Gün Sirer, a professor at Cornell University, and asked people to send him Bitcoin, promising to give them a stake into the Tezos platform.
According to an arrest affidavit previously obtained by PEOPLE, Lopez said that after spotting the alleged Craigslist ad in late December, he contacted the victim and pretended to be an experienced hired killer.
It originally pretended to be a dupe of Malwarebytes' Adware Medic app, and Apple removed it from the App Store until it changed its name to Doctor to bypass the exact name copy.
A 14-year-old boy allegedly pretended to be a police officer as he stole a blind man&aposs wallet at a New York City subway station last week, police said on Sunday.
The targets: Actress Rose McGowan: Two investigators from Black Cube, one of whom pretended to be a women's rights advocate, met with actress Rose McGowan, who publicly accused Weinstein of rape last month.
Sources close to the couple tell us once the baby's name was revealed, One Direction fans started creating bogus social media accounts with Freddie's name, and pretended to be associated with the family.
I was on Greta Van Susteren's show to talk about a story I was chasing about a couple who pretended to be Scottish royalty, though they were actually living off of entitlement programs.
The only people besides the carabinieri who knew about the substitution were the priest of the church and the local mayor, and in the hours after the theft, they pretended to be distraught.
The ex-wife of Moynan's ex-boyfriend told police she had also pretended to be Moynan on the phone with her property manager and that she had a copy of Moynan's driver's license.
Perhaps Trump can delegate his executive authorities in the same way as he used to license his name, pretending to be president just as he once pretended to be a real-estate tycoon.
Teigen and Legend were dinner guests at the Kardashian-Jenners&apos home on Wednesday, and jokingly pretended to be inconsiderate and rude to their hosts in other videos posted to Jenner&aposs story.
And nobody should mistake Prince Mohammed for the benign reformer he once pretended to be, or to let him believe he has closed the chapter on the barbaric extermination of a troublesome critic.
Drake got punked by an impostor who pretended to be his manager and put the word out the rapper was putting his incredible estate on the market ... and the media took the bait.
Pretended to be pregnant When Wilkins came to Lane's house in Longmont, about 40 miles north of Denver, Lane beat and stabbed her, cutting into her uterus and removing the fetus, according to prosecutors.
The little girl made it past security checks by taking "advantage of her small size" and pretended to be with a group of adults boarding an EasyJet flight at the Geneva Airport, police said.
Spencer embarrassed the hell out of himself on Sunday's episode of "Who Is America?" when he appeared in a segment where Cohen pretended to be an ex-Israeli military officer offering anti-terrorism training.
For the prank, Cohen, 46, pretended to be an Israeli self-defense and anti-terrorist expert who visited Smiley, 44, and Rossi's home to teach them how to defend themselves against a home invasion.
He told the Detroit Free Press that the idea was to remind people who pretended to be Irish for a day about what life was really like for Irish immigrants in the 19th century.
"He used to be kind of like the boob of New York that pretended to be wealthy, or we thought was wealthy, and now he's just a psychotic," the former late-night host said.
Black Cube spied on these women, using agents who pretended to be journalists or other interested parties, in a wide-ranging and expensive campaign of dirt-collecting for the purposes of intimidation and suppression.
In another instance, a hacker pretended to be a New York Times reporter by the name of "Lucy Leung" asked their target to click on a link, claiming it led to a news article.
Though she was certain she would soon be killed, Solis pretended to be dead on the carpet, waiting as many as 20 minutes before ultimately summoning the bravery to rise from that church floor.
The foul misogynists on Reddit never pretended to be anything other than foul misogynists; it was the genteel chauvinism of the enlightened elites at Kleiner Perkins that carried with it the sting of betrayal.
Trump's comments after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton weren't the first time he's pretended to be interested in background checks, only to reverse course after the issue fell from the front pages.
SOLOMON L. WISENBERG, deputy independent counsel: Hickman Ewing, our deputy from the Little Rock office, who's from Tennessee, pretended to be Bill Clinton to give us a flavor of what was going to happen.
WARREN BUFFETT: Well, people have pretended to be me on both Facebook and Twitter, I mean— BECKY QUICK: Have you guys gone after the people who— WARREN BUFFETT: We did it for a while.
Bowling Green, Kentucky (CNN)Hillary Clinton impersonated Donald Trump at an event Monday, mocking the presumptive Republican nominee during a speech where the former secretary of state pretended to be in a general election debate.
Justin Bieber fans and their parents are being urged to be extra careful when using the internet after a man pretended to be the pop star in order to commit hundreds of child sex offenses.
A Florida man police believe killed his ex-wife and then pretended to be her in text messages to her parents allegedly murdered his former in-laws and their adult son when they expressed suspicion.
A 4-year-old Missouri girl who heard gunshots pretended to be asleep and survived while her father fatally shot and killed her mother, her half-brother and then himself, according to multiple media reports.
Earlier this week, the prankster pretended to be Kushner and wrote to Kushner's real attorney, Lowell, about the (fictitious) adult content of emails he had shared with White House officials, as covered by Business Insider.
Meanwhile, the Trump-Ailes axis of abuse raises another question: Is sexual predation by senior political figures — which Mr. Ailes certainly was, even if he pretended to be in the journalism business — a partisan phenomenon?
One of the callers pretended to be new Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and the newspaper said Johnson spoke to them for 18 minutes, discussing topics like the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
But while other reporters, like Neil Sheehan, never pretended to be otherwise, Herr writes in a way that sucks you in, makes you feel that he, and maybe you too, are in the combat zone.
In January the hosts, "Romper Room"–style, even pretended to be watching Potus, showing a video feed of the White House and asking him to flash the lights on and off if he was watching.
We did the same thing with The Dirties—we pretended to be high school students making a film about us planning a school shooting—I talked with students, teachers, and friends in the exact same capacity.
Kratz previously told PEOPLE that when Avery called the magazine the day of the murder, he pretended to be his sister, Barb Janda by providing her name and number to lure her over to his house.
Other commenters pretended to be predators themselves, using time stamping — a tool that bad actors use to signal parts of a video that in turn sexualizes a child — in an attempt to get a video removed.
Facebook said Thursday that it has removed hundreds of pages and accounts that pretended to be real news sites from places in Eastern Europe, but were actually operated employees from Russian state-owned news company Sputnik.
Porn performer and activist Arabelle Raphael told me about one person who pretended to be her husband on Twitter, using their account to tweet nasty insults and cruel comments about her supposed inadequacies as a wife.
But officials say Watters pretended to be Backstreet Boys member Howie Dorough, ex-MLB star Johnny Damon and former Orlando Magic head coach Scott Skiles -- among many others -- in order to scam them out of money.
When I first got to the city, I met these drag queens who were throwing this party called Mall Goth—basically they dressed up and pretended to be these two girls who work at the mall.
In one case, an undercover agent pretended to be a 216-year-old Muslim woman, sending flirtatious messages to a Michigan terror suspect that implied she wanted to be his ISIS bride, according to court records.
Australian police ran one site for six months and pretended to be the owner, posting from his account; the FBI did the same when they briefly operated the dark web child pornography site Playpen in 2015.
In my home state of Arizona, voters have slowly discovered that Kyrsten Sinema is not really the centrist she has pretended to be and are turning toward the Republican candidate, Martha McSally, a former fighter pilot.
At the same time, by the end of the week Trump was dealing with a controversy over whether he had at one time falsely pretended to be his own publicist in a call to a reporter.
Trump, on the other hand, pretended to be a populist — he even claimed that he would raise taxes on the rich — and waited until taking office to reveal himself as just another reverse-Robin Hood Republican.
Then, under a profile named Blinky Bill, he pretended to be an employee of their label who was begging for fans not to tell his boss, even though the album came out on MacKenzie's own label.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talked international relations and rude poetry with a hoax caller who pretended to be the Armenian prime minister in a new gaffe by one of Britain's most prominent politicians.
In an effort to intimidate and vex their enemies, Ukrainian troops have at times pretended to be members of US Navy SEAL Team 6 and give orders over the radio in English, The Daily Signal said.
BuzzFeed News looked at retweet counts and found that the most viral tweets were posted by accounts that Linvill and Warren called Left Trolls, and which pretended to be liberal black Americans tweeting about black identity issues.
In order to protect its massive store of the substance, Wakanda has pretended to be a primitive nation throughout its history, hiding its advancements from the rest of the world with the aid of a force field.
The lawsuit alleges Hickey pretended to be a woman named Deja Stwalley, who claimed to live in Las Vegas where she ran a number of talent companies, including New Seattle Talent, West Coast Talent and FMH Modeling.
The strategy: Russian hackers pretended to be friends of friends of people in Macron's circle, ostensibly to gain personal information, plant malicious software, or gain access to their electronic accounts — an objective that seems to have failed.
His success was consolidated by 2009's Close-Up, a radically inventive "docufiction" about a man who pretended to be a real filmmaker, and tricked a family into thinking they were the subjects of his supposed movie.
William received Thomas' first call in which Thomas pretended to be "Mega Millions" and told William he won $15.5 million and a Mercedez-Benz, but needed to send Thomas $50,85033 to pay for taxes, according to CNN.
A 2013 Tumblr post from literary editor Sarah Weinman points out that not only was this far from Tomasso Debenedetti's first hoax involving legendary writers—it's not even the first time he's pretended to be Don DeLillo.
Obvious Twitter jokes that get mistaken for the truth can get you suspended, as happened with VICE contributor Krang T. Nelson, when that user pretended to be a violent leftist in the process of overthrowing the government.
When she failed to get that apartment, she joined forces with Mr. Douglas, who pretended to be her boyfriend during her next apartment visit in the West Village, which she had arranged through another real estate agent.
The president viciously mocked Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, acting mentally confused as he pretended to be Ms. Feinstein responding to a question about whether her staff had leaked information about one of Judge Kavanaugh's accusers.
It wasn't wheelchair-accessible; it was accused of overcharging its customers; and, as VICE reported, the shop's publicist pretended to be its first customer in a television interview, during which she raved about the service she received.
"That would have been the mass-shooter&aposs final joke against society: to trick all journalists into writing inaccurate and stupid copy and going after certain individuals who pretended to be influencing him," Higgins told First Draft.
"Al Franken, Giant of the Senate" is, in part, the story of how Franken became a giant phony — how he pretended to be a serious person in public even as his inner comic monologue never stopped running.
The lawsuit also says that Eugene's half-sister Rachel Jeantel pretended to be Eugene when she was interviewed by prosecutors and provided false statements to incriminate Zimmerman based on coaching from others in court during his trial.
Some have even created best practice guidelines for using virality to push Le Pen to a win, while others have more deviously pretended to be French in order to better spread their partisan memes, as reported by BuzzFeed.
The scalps that followed included British politicians, an Uber executive (targeted after stories about the company's improper acquisition of a passenger's medical records), and actor Kevin Spacey in a gag in which Linton pretended to be Hugh Jackman.
According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Darin Schilmiller of New Salisbury, Indiana, pretended to be someone named "Tyler" in online conversations with 18-year-old Denali Brehmer, who is accused of planning the killing of Cynthia Hoffman.
Specifically focusing on children, the researchers reported that movies were turning young viewers into "delinquents," with girls becoming promiscuous and boys aggressive (or at least they pretended to be, when playing) thanks to what they'd seen on film.
Delvey — real name Anna Sorokin — perpetrated a years-long swindle where she pretended to be a German heiress, and tricked banks into giving her more than $22 million in loans, as well as tricking bankers, hotels, and socialites.
Dozens of people have been indicted for their involvement in a scam in which call-center operators in India pretended to be IRS and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials, the Justice Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday.
The Florida high school had multiple guards at the school yet he still got in the school, pulled the fire alarm, shot multiple students/ teachers, AND pretended to be one of the students that were trying to escape.
A week ago, Jamaican authorities arrested Mr. Faisal in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, after he was indicted in New York on charges that he assisted an undercover officer who pretended to be trying to join ISIS in Syria.
In 20123, he called up the Bakersfield Condors, a team in the East Coast Hockey League, and pretended to be his own agent, claiming he had this tough, gritty kid named Nello Ferrara the Condors ought to see.
I wouldn't mind if you took the easier path and cooked the pork shoulder in the kitchen in a standard oven all afternoon and just pretended to be out there maintaining a steady 300 degrees in the Weber.
Editorial During a New Year's Day speech, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda pretended to be humbled by the outcome of a constitutional referendum that paved the way for him to seek a third term and, conceivably, rule until 2034.
One of her friends pretended to be Chyna as the two tried to shield their faces away from the videographer — in an attempt to get away from the "paparazzi" who were asking what their unborn daughter's name will be.
This was the late 1990s and early 2000s, when 56k modems were fast — nearly a decade before social media gurus would shed their gills and learn to breathe on dry land, where they've pretended to be human ever since.
In 1991, Trump pretended to be a publicist named John Miller so he could present his side of his divorce from his first wife, Ivana, and also spread the false story that he was dating the model Carla Bruni.
On Easter Sunday 1977, while humming the words to a classic Irving Berlin song, I pretended to be Judy Garland: In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade.
If you've ever sat through a school assembly where an actor pretended to be some great man or great woman of history, you will know the style well, and Valentina Fratti, directing for The Acting Company, doesn't invigorate it.
The worker grew "increasingly suspicious" of Deas, 29, after visiting him "on at least ten separate occasions" and soon discovered that he had pretended to be his "mentally and physically handicapped 18-year-old brother named Cory," police allege.
Washington (CNN)A former Forbes reporter claims that Donald Trump, before he was president, pretended to be a Trump Organization executive speaking on Trump's behalf and then lied about his wealth in order to crack the Forbes 803 list.
Some of the callers in the operation also pretended to be offering grants or payday loans linked to a borrower's paycheck, prompting victims to pay a fee upfront before they could receive the fictitious loan, the 2016 indictment says.
They played at street fairs and charity events, never for money; at home, they pretended to be the Spice Girls (two Sportys, and Este was Ginger) and dissected the classic rock songs and disco numbers their parents listened to.
He also explained how he had stolen a corporate credit card from a mailbox at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he pretended to be an instructor, and used the card to buy thousands of dollars' worth of equipment.
A New York father has pleaded guilty to federal pornography and exploitation crimes after he pretended to be a 15-year-old boy and tricked his own daughter into an online relationship in which she sent him explicit photos, PEOPLE confirms.
There's also a stunning, frenetic sequence in which Lorraine is being chased around in her home by a portrait that Ed painted: It was an image he dreamed, and it looks something like a land shark pretended to be a nun.
"I remember when we were taught at a young age about the French colonialist occupier, when the [Syrian] regime pretended to be a champion of national sovereignty," one of the protesters, a USAID-funded project manager, Abdul Rahman,* told me.
Clutching her 65-day-old daughter, a young Honduran woman pretended to be a window washer at the border crossing in Hidalgo, Texas, following the line of cars until she was on US soil and able to ask for asylum.
Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who made national headlines in 2015 after she pretended to be black, is back in the spotlight thanks to a new memoir titled In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.
Scenes From Mark Zuckerberg&aposs First Big Stump SpeechFacebook founder and domestic travel enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg pretended to be a politician at his …Read more ReadZuckerberg is about as far from a man of the people as a person can get.
It's sad that I will never see her again, but I find it comforting to know that we had seven years to unite around a little cat that pretended to be bad, so we could all have a bit of good.
Hoping to get a little inside information on the Patriots' game plan, Rex pretended to be "Walt Patulski from The Buffalo News," and asked Edelman, a college QB turned professional wide receiver, if he was going to play quarterback Sunday.
Sarah Palin is calling on Sacha Baron Cohen to donate all the profits from his upcoming Showtime series to military veterans' groups after saying she was duped into an interview with the comedian when he pretended to be a wounded warrior.
And once, in a phone call, Mr. Wildstein said he pretended to be a representative of the actor Alan Alda, to try to convince an adversary that Mr. Alda wanted to run for the United States Senate in New Jersey.
Joanna: In this hippie harem, kisses are so abundant, but today marks the first occasion that I get to pash two tongues simultaneously [Nahaal has a split tongue], and I'd be lying if I pretended to be opposed to that.
In their backyard, Luke and John had pretended to be Mark McGwire and Albert Pujols, and Luke had imagined what it would have been like to be David Freese, a Wildwood alumnus who became a World Series most valuable player.
When the family gathered for lunch later at the only restaurant in the village, Rodrigo popped out of his seat and pretended to be a bullfighter, swaying a paper napkin back and forth, tilting his head theatrically to the side.
In 2016 Trump pretended to be a different kind of Republican, but in practice almost all of his economic agenda has been G.O.P. standard: big tax cuts for corporations and the rich while hacking away at the social safety net.
Raised in Palo Alto by an aloof biologist father and a mother who played Chopin on the piano but could offer comfort only when her daughter pretended to be ill, Pagels rebelled by embracing evangelical Christianity when she was 15.
Walgreens paid $7.5 million to settle a complaint alleging one of its employees pretended to be a licensed pharmacist for over a decade while working at multiple Walgreens pharmacies around the Bay Area, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced.
He said that he had stolen a corporate credit card from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he pretended to be an instructor, and that he acquired two fake passports and a driver's license from a prop company in New York.
My mom was keeping a close eye on the book to make sure no one read ahead, so in order to sneak it away, I swapped the dust jacket with another fantasy novel and pretended to be reading that one instead.
Matt and Mercedes Schlapp become the toast of the American right by walking out of a Michelle Wolf comedy routine that they pretended to be offended by, scattering tweets feigning disdain toward media elite, all while en route to the MSNBC after-party.
This prankster pretended to be Kushner and engaged in a fake email correspondence with Kushner's actual attorney earlier, Abbe Lowell, earlier this week about some (nonexistent) adult content the fake Kushner alleged was in the emails he sent to the Senate Committee.
There were people who were passable enough that no one would ever catch on, and then there was everybody else who was in the closet and didn't want to go outside, and pretended to be the other gender to try to fit in.
"According to a preliminary investigation, 51 Credit Card entrusted third-party debt collecting services that pretended to be from the government, and used intimidation and nuisance tactics to collect debts," Hangzhou police said in a post on their official Twitter-like Weibo account.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's crackdown on online rumor-mongers and fraud has snared a fresh target - a 17-year-old junior high school dropout who pretended to be a billionaire, gave himself fake titles and posted Photoshopped pictures of himself with world leaders.
The season so far has ably balanced Issa and company figuring themselves out without the presence of a major romantic story arc, but the end of "High-Like" reveals that the show isn't as done with Lawrence as it pretended to be.
In his recent court case, the police said Mr. Rini had pretended to be a prospective home buyer so that he could gain access to a $400,000 custom-built house in a Cleveland suburb and give a party that he promoted on Facebook.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) said his office had heard of scammers who pretended to be from a hospital where a victim's grandson was being treated for the coronavirus; the scammers asked for money to ensure the grandson got a ventilator.
According to tribal membership documents from 1900 reviewed by The New York Times and High Country News, Cherokee Nation lawyers fought the tribal enrollment of Mr. Stitt's ancestor, Francis Dawson, who they claimed pretended to be a Cherokee and bribed Cherokee commissioners.
Of course, some fans still prefer the rookie Benson who seemed to never shy away from dangerous situations—the one who went undercover in prison, infiltrated a dangerous environmental group, and once even pretended to be gunned down by a group of kidnappers.
None of the 10 jurors could reasonably find that the story as a whole implied that Eramo "was a false friend to Jackie who pretended to be on Jackie's side while seeking to suppress sexual assault reporting," Conrad said in his ruling in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Nichole Ellen Carver, 35, allegedly pretended to be an Anderson police officer to get access to phone records of husband Charlie Carver, 32, who was reported missing in August along with his girlfriend, Kala Brown, 30, Anderson police spokesman Captain Mike Aikens tells PEOPLE.
Ms. O'Riordan never pretended to be someone else: She did not adopt an American twang, but sang in the bold brogue of her hometown, a place later viewed internationally through the prism of Frank McCourt's memoir "Angela's Ashes" as a rain-soaked, gritty place.
"For over seven years the defendant has pretended to be a registered architect, deceiving hundreds of New Yorkers — including families and senior citizens — with the sole goal of enriching himself," Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement about what his office called Operation Vandelay Industries.
During the 1968 student protests at Columbia University, he and his fellow humorist Paul Krassner (who died in July) pretended to be students and said they had taken over the station; some listeners who didn't get the joke are said to have called the police.
Russian trolls who used social media for their operations in the US around the 2016 election also targeted influential people and news outlets, successfully getting them to effectively draw attention to — even sometimes through negative attention — the accounts with which they pretended to be Americans.
The best view of the pool was from the Prefects' Room—you could see almost every pore from there—but the prefects, rare beings in their cream blazers, their sleeves striped with sporting colors and academic honors, pretended to be too sophisticated to watch.
Merkley said the woman who pretended to be a window washer told him she was fleeing death threats from gangs and didn't want to wait for days for a chance to apply for asylum on the bridge that connects Hidalgo and the Mexican city of Reynosa.
Showing that people of color also have full romantic lives would have made a such a difference in making the show not thinly "politically correct" but a show with a much deeper accuracy to everything it pretended to be about: love, sex, friendship, and New York City.
But there is no pretense that her use of pseudonym masked a case of dishonest deception—as was true of, say, J.T. Leroy, the persona assumed by a woman who pretended to be an abused boy writing memoir about his outrageous life as a child prostitute.
Some people will do anything to avoid confrontation—take for example, this woman who pretended to be ill while on a hiking date and ended up being helicoptered off a mountain because she didn't know how to just tell her date she was having a bad time.
Around the corner, on Fordham Drive, a pinkish granite boulder with a plaque marks the vicinity of the Temple of Music, where an unhinged anarchist named Leon Czolgosz pretended to be reaching to shake President McKinley's hand and instead brought out a gun wrapped in a handkerchief.
The trial of a career con artist who pretended to be a military veteran to lease a luxury car with stolen funds from a counterfeit check scheme came to a close on Monday, as the two sides offered sharply different interpretations of the evidence during summations.
A soccer referee in Norway who pretended to be a teenage girl to meet hundreds of boys and young men online, some of whom he later raped, was sentenced to 16 years in prison last week, a lawyer for some of the victims said on Sunday.
"I was on this dating site called One Scene for a while, until I met this girl who pretended to be interested in going out with me... but turned out to be a close family friend who just wanted to use my being gay to extort money," she says.
It was only a few short years ago that the nation's most keen-eyed observers of fashion were examining the term "lumbersexual," which denoted men who pretended to be adept at chopping wood when in reality their jobs mostly consisted of sending emails to one another, then attending meetings.
IRA staff sitting in St Petersburg (the one on the Neva rather than on Tampa Bay) pretended to be Americans on social media and staked out divisive positions on either end of the political spectrum, passing themselves off as supporters of Mr Trump, or of Black Lives Matter.
When they took a break, their idea of fun was to play a round of "Game of Clones," in which a small group of scientists pretended to be cancer cells trying to persuade the maximal number of other researchers bouncing around the room to be their malignant clones.
Poland figures big in "Dimitrij": its noblemen give unofficial backing to the so-called False Dmitry—the first of three consecutive rogues who pretended to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible—allowing him to invade Russia and, after the unexpected death of Tsar Boris Godunov, assume power.
And it brought out people who, while fully versed in the Bulger legend, seemed to look past the murders, the drug dealing and the corrupt relationship with the F.B.I. — and instead saw the harmless retired couple that Mr. Bulger and Ms. Greig pretended to be for 16 years.
Instead of borrowing a friend's DirecTV password or shouting at a shitty, endlessly buffering stream, he allegedly called Charter Spectrum, pretended to be the manager of a local restaurant, and tried to upgrade its cable package to include the PAC-12 channel so he could watch the game.
Mr. Davis, who is around 30, got his performing start as a New Jersey teenager prank-calling Tom Scharpling's "The Best Show" — he pretended to be a rapper named MC Steinberg — and he still owes a debt to the conversational, slow-burn comedy of that influential radio program.
Perhaps leveraging the public's expectation that the Petro token would be on Ethereum, at least three different Ethereum tokens calling themselves the "Petro" (two of them—one on Twitter and one on 4chan—actually pretended to be Venezuela's Petro) seized the opportunity to ask people to send them digital coins.
She has also spearheaded a global fund to support female entrepreneurs that—goals aside—has all the trappings of a pay-to-play scam of the sort that her father pretended to be offended by on the campaign trail, and that would make the founders of the Clinton Foundation blush.
Donald J. Trump, who has admitted in the past to sometimes employing a pseudonym in which he pretended to be a spokesman for himself, insisted in an interview with NBC's "Today" show on Friday that an audiotape from 1991 featuring a man claiming to be Mr. Trump's spokesman was not him.
Her boyfriend at the time, Geoff Knoop, posed as a musician named Astor, and his half-sister, Savannah Knoop, pretended to be JT LeRoy, showing up at public events in oversize sunglasses and a blond wig that looked as if it came from the prop department of a B movie.
This reminds us of yet another time Trump faked something in order to brag about himself — when he pretended to be his own publicist on phone calls with outlets like People Magazine, where, posing as "John Baron," he spun heroic, albeit fake stories about his professional achievements and dating prowess.
When the footage did, in fact, end up getting published across "many popular free services," website owners reportedly hired people to serve as fake "references" and pretended to be models who could "vouch" for the website's legitimacy to help promote its claims that the videos would never be posted online.
But the 73-year-old president of the United States attacking a teenager with Asperger's is a very bad look — especially considering that just last week, Trump and his defenders pretended to be outraged when Stanford University law professor Pamela Karlan merely mentioned Barron Trump's name during an impeachment hearing.
Today's superstars have to get a lot more creative to cause a stir around new work: Rihanna launched a bizarre haunted house app; Beyoncé looped in HBO and pump-faked a billion-dollar divorce; Taylor Swift has been dropping cyphers in Instagram Live comments; Young Thug pretended to be dead one time.
Whatley, who told Vice he believes his photo was used because it's one of the first results when you google "average man" (he directed a play called An Average Man), visited the hotel and pretended to be Banksy, taking photos with fans, some of whom had "Banksy was here" painted on their faces.
During his innocence hearing in Raleigh, North Carolina, Allison Redlich, a false confession expert at the University of Albany, explained to the jury how a police officer had used Blackmon's mental illness against him; pretended to be his friend; and convinced him to confess to the dormitory murder, reported the Associated Press.
One Eats Everything super fan scammed his way into free guest list for life from the DJ. In a video the producer posted to his Facebook page, a man only identified as Zac walked to the front of the line of an Eats Everything show and pretended to be part of the press.
In 280, Gignac traveled to Hawaii, where he pretended to be a prince and scammed tourists out of nearly $2000,22019 to cover his stay at a luxurious resort by falsely claiming he could offer them a stake in an oil field in Saudi Arabia, according to Vanity Fair, which cites court documents.
Among the files he'd tied to the Olympic Destroyer bait, Matonis found two other bait documents from the collection that dated back to 2017 and seemed to target Ukrainian LGBT activist groups, using infected files that pretended to be a gay rights organization's strategy document and a map of a Kiev Pride parade.
Ms. Stroh would stand outside the family's six-bedroom Spanish Mediterranean home in the manicured Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe in 1973 as her father, Eric Stroh, pretended to be a stranger as he drove by in his silver Chrysler, waving a chocolate bar as temptation and beckoning her to the car.
She had pretended to be busy with the boxes, but her hands were shaking and she hardly knew what she was packing, and Toby's ranting behind her was terrible because it was so uncharacteristic, as if something in him that should never have come to light had been broken open and exposed.
Here are a few cases: JUAN PUJOL Spanish chicken farmer Juan Pujol, codenamed Agent Garbo, played a key role in the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. He pretended to be an agent of Germany, but was really working for Britain&aposs MI21993, feeding the Nazis misleading information about Allied war efforts.
There were lower-stakes scams, such as the thieves who attempted to steal a shark from the San Antonio Aquarium by putting it in a baby stroller; YouTube creators Yes Theory who tricked the internet into thinking Justin Bieber was eating a sideways burrito; and Bonnie, a cow that pretended to be a deer.
Someone crook pretended to be Britney Spears' manager and got her record label to send a bunch of yet-to-be-released music ... TMZ has learned.. According to docs obtained by TMZ ... the suspect impersonated Larry Rudolph, Brit's longtime manager, and emailed RCA Records to ask for tracks that at the time were unreleased.
Ms. Palin, whose interview has yet to air (neither has Mr. Moore's), said in a Facebook post that Mr. Cohen had invited her to take part in a segment honoring veterans for a Showtime documentary, and that Mr. Cohen pretended to be a disabled veteran in a wheelchair — a characterization Showtime disputed in a statement.
I pretended to be an animal a lot (moose and zebra were my go to roles), but I always had to return to society at some point, go inside, sit at a table or a desk like a good human, and gaze out the window at the surrounding landscape, waiting to be out in it again.
Tyler, the Creator versus Seth Rogen is the meeting of minds you never thought you needed (probably because their other known collab is this mildly-to-mid-level disturbing Loiter Squad video where Rogen pretended to be a little girl) but this may actually be one of the most fascinating interviews we've seen in a while.
There is no real pity to be found, here, as Manziel has never really pretended to be anything but the lout that he has revealed himself to be; he has never been contrite, never even really feinted seriously at making any positive change, and never really evinced any interest in doing right by anyone but himself.
Things get even weirder: A seamstress in Kazan, one of the World Cup host cities, says she was framed by a police officer who pretended to be a customer with a very specific request to make a life-size doll of Zabivaka, the 2018 World Cup's mascot — and then charged her with violating FIFA's copyright rules.
The hackers used exploits and spyware developed for the iOS and Android operating systems, and attempted to deliver them through carefully crafted phishing messages sent via WhatsApp, from people who pretended to be journalists, staffers of NGOs, and volunteers to Tibetan human rights groups, according to the report, published by the digital rights group Citizen Lab on Tuesday.
A few days earlier he had gone into the store of Carlos Bringuier, a prominent anti-Castro Cuban exile, and offered his services as a guerrilla warrior against the Cuban government; he was apparently inspired by William Morgan, an American involved in the Cuban Revolution who once pretended to be an anti-Castro militant so as to foil a plot against Castro.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan upheld the convictions related to emails in which Mr. Golb pretended to be a scholar confessing to a university administrator that he had committed plagiarism, an act that the court pointed out is considered serious unethical conduct in the academic world and could result in significant damage to one's career.
No need to pretend like we weren't all playing Pokémon Go. And on another day, I saw a woman in her mid-30s having a grand smiley time playing Pokémon Go at the supermarket but as soon as she saw me walking by, her smile retracted and she quickly shuffled her phone into her pocket and pretended to be looking for canned black beans.
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Over the next 28 minutes, we meet a few of The Guy's most eccentric customers: a gay man in a toxic relationship that once pretended to be addicted to crystal meth in order to escape his best friend; and a duo of macho men working on their method acting skills by making The Guy as uncomfortable as possible — a stark contrast to The Guy's sales style, which is to be as nonthreatening and helpful as humanly possible.

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