On Sunday's Who Is America?, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen taught Republican donor and businessman Shaun McCutcheon, most famous for successfully weakening campaign finance laws, how to repel a Muslim terrorist attack in the office. McCutcheon, a supporter of and 2016 delegate for President Trump, is not as public a figure as other Cohen subjects like Sarah Palin or Roy Moore, and he isn't a (former) elected official like Jason Spencer. But he is the latest conservative shown willing to do ridiculous things in the tutelage of Cohen's Israeli commando alter-ego, Col. Erran Morad.
And McCutcheon does some truly absurd things to practice and spread Morad's purportedly Israeli "hide, infiltrate, and violence" (HIV) strategy:
McCutcheon appeared to take the segment in stride, retweeting the Who Is America? videos of him acting foolish and tweeting to someone laughing at him: "Free speech bud! Hope you like it. We knew the guy was full of it."
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