Just When You Thought Manti Te’o Couldn’t Be Any More Gullible

The most unbelievable detail of the entire Manti Te'o hoax has emerged.

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Yesterday news broke that Manti Te'o spent an inordinate amount of time — more than 500 hours — on the phone with the person he believed to be his fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua. According to the New York Daily News, the person Te'o was actually speaking to was Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the supposed mastermind of the hoax who impersonated a female voice

TO REPEAT: IT WAS (ALLEGEDLY) A DUDE IMPERSONATING A WOMAN ON THE PHONE FOR MORE THAN 500 HOURS.

Ronaiah's lawyer, Milton Grimes, said it's completely plausible Te'o would never have known he was actually speaking to a man:

"Come on, Hollywood does it all the time. People can do that."

Via: nydailynews.com


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