Almost hilariously the exact definition of a Logical Fallacy of a Loaded Question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

Ex. "When did you stop beating your wife?"

We need to educate more people against logical fallacies, and we need to educate and arm people with better critical thinking skills.

>We need to educate more people against logical fallacies

Definitely! And train them on how to identify and fend this sort of abuse, particularly on students (and youth in general) who often find themselves in situations where there is a huge power imbalance playing against them.

While I was studying at KAUST (Saudi Arabia's flaghship university), my daughter was kidnapped by the staff there and held hostage for a few weeks, all of this to try to get me to sign some documents I didn't want to [1]. Aside from other things, they were desperately trying to get some dirt on me using such tactics, so that part of the post resonated with me very well.

I am in the process of writing a book about this whole ordeal with the intent of letting other people learn from my experience and how to get out of this sort of thing in time, or better yet, never fall into it in the first place.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827524

That's called "leading the witness".

That sounds very much like defamation though. But US defamation rules are difficult for public figures to use.