Fake Twitter account trolls Texas State Rep. Poncho Nevarez hard

Texas State Representative Poncho Nevarez got into a heated Twitter exchange with a parody account for the fictional Georgia congressman Steven Smith on Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Texas State Representative Poncho Nevarez got into a heated Twitter exchange with a parody account for the fictional Georgia congressman Steven Smith on Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Photo: Rep. Poncho Nevarez On Twitter Photo: Rep. Poncho Nevarez On Twitter Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Fake Twitter account trolls Texas State Rep. Poncho Nevarez hard 1 / 23 Back to Gallery

Donald Trump’s supporters have been accused of using social media to troll his critics, but one Texas state representative on Wednesday got a lesson in not believing everything you read online.

Rep. Poncho Nevarez, a border Democrat who supports Hillary Clinton, tweeted his daughter’s response to Clinton’s historic rise as the first woman slated to be the presidential nominee of a major American party: “It won’t be the last time.”

What followed was a tweet, at 3 a.m. Wednesday, from @RepStevenSmith, whose Twitter bio says he’s a Republican U.S. representative from Georgia’s 15th district. “Tea Party Patriot: Constitutionalist : Partisan,” it reads.

The online exchange went on for about 3 hours with Nevarez apparently not noticing the account was not real.

“Did you tell your daughter that Hillary is the first felon nominated for president?” Smith responded. Or, at least, that’s what the Twitter troll behind the account wrote.

Last year, PolitiFact Georgia exposed the account as fake. There are, in fact, only 14 congressional districts in the Peach State, which a simple Google search confirms.

Nobody told Nevarez that, though. He responded to the troll account’s attacks on Clinton, who has not be indicted. “That would be untrue. I assume a guy like you probably ate his kids so I won’t you what you ask them.”

Another Twitter user later alerted the Maverick County lawmaker to the hoax, to which Nevarez replied, "Those folks whoever they are just feed off this. Hopefully this fills them up for awhile so they leave folks alone."

He shouldn’t feel that bad. The fake account has fooled several national journalists over the years, including CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Vox.com’s Ezra Klein.