Sacha Baron Cohen disaster: How Donald Trump’s former lawyer tried to get ALI G arrested
DONALD Trump's former lawyer and US mayor tried to get British actor Sacha Baron Cohen arrested after a spoof interview went horribly wrong, it has been revealed.
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Mr Cohen – the British actor and satirist who played Ali G and Borat – invited Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York, to an interview which was supposed to have been a prank.
Mr Giuliani, who is also a former personal attorney to the president, said he thought the interview was serious.
Mr Giuliani told the New York Post's Page Six gossip site that Cohen’s team had contacted him claiming the interview was about Mr Trump’s coronavirus response.
The former presidential aide added he had been offered payment for the interview.
According to Mr Giuliani, a female interviewer started the conversation as normal, before Mr Cohen, 48, “comes running in”.
Mr Giuliani alleged Mr Cohen was wearing a “pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top”.
The 76-year-old Trump official immediately rang the police, causing Mr Cohen to flee the scene, Page Six adds.
It is thought the interview was held in New York’s Upper East Side hotel, where Meghan Markle held her 2019 baby shower.
According to other sources, Mr Cohen was seen running from the hotel and down the city streets wearing a bathrobe.
He was not apprehended by the police. Neither the New York Police Department or Mr Cohen’s representatives responded to Page Six’s requests for comment.
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After the incident, Mr Giuliani told the site he was “a fan of some of his movies”, citing Borat as one of them.
It is not the first time that Mr Cohen has attempted to involve president Trump in one of his spoof interviews.
Mr Cohen interviewed the president himself in 2003 as part of his series ‘Da Ali G Show’.
In the spoof interview with Mr Trump, Mr Cohen asked the future president such questions as: “How long has there been businesses” and pitched an idea involving ice cream-proof gloves.
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Mr Trump claims he left the interview “immediately”.
Mr Trump addressed the interview in a 2012 tweet, writing: “I never fall for scams. I am the only person who immediately walked out of my ‘Ali G’ interview”.
More recently, reports claim Mr Cohen crashed a right-wing rally in Washington at the end of June this year.
Mr Cohen allegedly appeared at a March for Our Rights 3 rally dressed in dungarees and a straw hat.
The Guardian reports the actor then attempted to get the audience to sing a song about COVID-19 being a hoax, before leaving the scene in a private ambulance.