Jacob Wohl. Photo: John Middlebrook/CSM/Shutterstock

By Bridget Read Jacob Wohl. Photo: John Middlebrook/CSM/Shutterstock Sparkling-water enthusiast and recent fitness influencer Jacob Wohl is simply unparalleled in the field of failed smear attempts. He's best known for staging slapdash, surreal press conferences, ostensibly to unveil proof of some outlandish claim against a prominent Trump opponent, which never materializes. Along with his partner-in-crime Jack Burkman -- literally, the pair is likely under investigation by the FBI -- the MAGA-loving freelance "intelligence" operative has tried and failed to take down Robert Mueller, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren and more in the last year alone. So far, the duo have only managed to expose themselves as two men with the know-how and subtlety of two children in a trench-coat trying to buy a dirty magazine. Sign up for the One Great Story newsletter The one story you shouldn't miss today, selected by New York's editors. Sign up Top of F Bottom of FomFor their most recent stunt, the pair reportedly hired a woman to say that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had attempted to assault her in a hotel in 2014. This scheme fell apart, in a typically Wohlian fashion, after the woman in question reached out to a journalist to say Wohl and Burkman had paid her to make the claim, and that it was untrue.