Some of the interviewees' responses:
-Joe Walsh (on 7/11): "Dressing up as a wounded veteran is absolutely stolen valor, his tactics are disgusting [sic]-I know cause I too was duped."
-Christy Cones (on 7/12): "Sacha Baron Cohen owes me a face-to-face meeting as compensation for his underhanded tactics and his preying on the vulnerable, especially by pretending to be someone who suffered when he probably hasn't suffered a moment in his life. That's the least he could do after putting me through this. That, and buy a painting."
-Matt Gaetz (on 7/13): "It's very consistent with his model, beginning with a seemingly normal interaction and then the brilliance of his comedy is that he accelerates the awkwardness of it to some usually ironically humorous end."
-Dana Rohrabacher (on 7/17): "I love good satire, but good satire must reveal some basis in truth. This was fraud, a sick fraud at that, and its intention was to deceive the American people for political purposes."
Baron's character is seen getting the support of Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, for a plan to issue firearms to school children "down to 4 years old"; he then states "Now that I have this Pratt on board". In Baron's native UK, the homonym "prat" denotes a fool, particularly a smug fool; thus Baron's spoken phrase has a subtly insulting double meaning.