By ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Two Russian pranksters reportedly posed as Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg and her dad during a phone call with vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris and offered her damaging information about President Trump.
Audio of the January phone call, which was obtained by The Sun, indicates that Harris had no idea that she was being duped by the two jokesters – Vladimir ‘Vovan’ Kuznetsov and Alexey ‘Lexus’ Stolyarov.
During the three-and-a-half-minute call, Harris, the California senator who just weeks earlier had dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for president, is heard accepting the call from ‘Greta.’
‘Congratulations on all your leadership,’ Harris tells the pranksters.
Kamala Harris (left), the California senator and Democratic nominee for vice president, was pranked by two Russian hoaxers – Vladimir ‘Vovan’ Kuznetsov (seen left in the image on the right) and Alexei ‘Lexus’ Stolyarov (seen right next to Kuznetsov) – in January, according to a report
The two hoaxers posed as Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (left), 17, and her father, Svante Thunberg (right). The two are seen above in New York in August 2019
‘I’m so inspired by your courage and your voice.’
‘Greta’ then tells the senator: ‘Umm, it would be cool to support you in your campaign. What is the best way to do it?’
Harris replies: ‘The best way to do it would be to talk about my climate plan. You know what I can do is, I can ask my policy team to follow up with you with more detail on what exactly would be helpful and what is something you would like to do.
‘Then we can talk in more detail about how that can work and that would be very helpful, and I thank you for that.’
When ‘Greta’ and ‘her father’ tell Harris that they’ve written letters to ‘many politicians’ but that ‘not many people responded,’ the senator offered sympathy.
‘Well it just highlights the need that we have to be active,’ Harris says.
‘There are forces working against our movement and we have to fight for these things.
‘This is that moment, and you have been a great warrior in this cause.’
The pranksters then appear to try and use their ‘Greta’ persona to goad Harris into criticizing Trump.
‘I am so terrified of what Trump is doing, I even cannot eat or sleep when I see him on TV,’ Harris is told by ‘Greta.’
‘That terrible meeting in the UN building in September, I have nightmares.
