Mr. Trump, meet Ms. Nicole Mincey (chuckle)
How Trump fell for fake news
On August 5, a Twitter account with 146,000 followers, belonging to somebody named Nicole Mincey, posted this message: “Trump working hard for the American people…..thanks❤????????” Trump gave it his official stamp of approval: a retweet. “Thank you Nicole!” he added. Trump’s retweet got 49,000 likes and 10,000 retweets of its own.
Trump was had. There is no Nicole Mincey, and Twitter suspended that account a day later.
“Nicole Mincey was a fake character,” a woman calling herself Lorraine Elijah, believed to have run the Twitter account and a web site associated with it, told Yahoo Finance in an email. “We obviously went to [sic] far. I joined twitter to make money and now this is a nightmare gone wrong.”
Further investigation reveals that “Nicole Mincey” — whom Trump also highlighted in a June 5 post on his Facebook page — is a fabricated Internet persona based loosely on a real person who was most likely recruited by scammers through social media. But rather than some sophisticated operation run by a foreign intelligence service, as the imagination might suggest, Nicole Mincey appears to be the creation of a couple of hucksters with a more mundane plan in mind: simply selling some hats and T-shirts.
Anybody with a social-media account or email address knows the Internet has a bottomless dark side filled with scams, phonies and worse. “Nicole Mincey” is now part of that sinister funhouse.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-fell-fake-news-121052569.html
read the whole article at the link and see his twitter responses to "her" 
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