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Rudy Giuliani’s fall from grace smashed
through bedrock when it was revealed on Wednesday that he stuck his
hands down his pants during an encounter with a woman he believed
to be a reporter. She was actually an actress in the new
Borat sequel, which will be released Friday on Amazon.
The news lit up Twitter as soon as the
Guardian reported the “indiscrete scene” featuring
Giuliani and Maria Bakalova, who plays Tutar, the daughter of the
movie’s title character, Borat — played, of course, by Sacha Baron
Cohen. The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, who previously
saw the moment in the film, described it as “beyond cringe.”
It’s the biggest prank pulled yet by Baron
Cohen, who first started his shtick as pseudo-rapper Ali G but
rocketed to international stardom as Kazakhstan reporter Borat
Sagdiyev, pranking Americans from coast to coast in 2006’s smash
movie.
It’s also a new low for Giuliani — the
mob-busting U.S. Attorney turned New York City mayor turned
“America’s mayor” turned failed presidential candidate turned
Donald Trump’s hatchet man turned possible useful idiot of Russian
intelligence.
Here’s everything we know about what
happened.
The Setup
On July 7, Giuliani arrived at the Mark Hotel
on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for an interview with a woman he
thought was a conservative reporter about the Trump
administration’s COVID-19 response, he told the New York
Post that month. Giuliani said he was offered money, but
asked that the money to be donated to a 9/11 charity instead.
Once there, he met an Eastern European version
of Tomi Lahren, as the Daily Beast put it, played by the Bulgarian
actress Maria Bakalova. In Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, as
the sequel is called, Bakalova portrays Borat’s 15-year-old
daughter, Tutar. Though in the scene with Giuliani, she portrays an
adult woman.
The Sting
Giuliani and Bakalova are alone in a hotel
suite together, save for a brief appearance by Baron Cohen posing
as a sound technician. According to Showbiz 411, Baron Cohen
observes Giuliani’s infatuation with Bakalova, who is wearing a
body-hugging dress, and remarks, “You should stick to marrying your
cousin” — a jab at Giuliani’s first marriage to his second
cousin.
Bakalova tells Giuliani she’s nervous during
the interview. “I’ll relax you,” he tells her while drinking
whiskey. After blaming the coronavirus on China, he makes a
remark about eating bats (an apparent reference to one theory of
how humans contracted the virus) and asks Bakalova, “Have you ever
eaten a bat?” She bats her eyelashes and invites him into the
adjoining bedroom for a drink. Unbeknownst to him, the room is
wired with hidden recording equipment.
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Giuliani, apparently thinking the interview
has ended and a romantic session has begun, sits on the bed and
removes Bakalova’s microphone from her person, and asks for her
phone number and address. That’s when Giuliani starts “patting her
backside,” as the Daily Beast put it. Then Bakalova “pushes him
down on the bead and starts unbuckling his pants to remove the
microphone,” according to Showbiz 411.
Finally, the big moment: Giuliani sticks his
hands down the front of his pants — maybe to remove the mic, maybe
to do something else.
At that moment, Baron Cohen bursts into the
room wearing a woman’s wig and underwear and tells Giuliani: “She’s
15! She’s too old for you!”
Giuliani said on Wednesday evening he wasn’t
exposing himself, but tucking in his shirt after Bakalova removed
his mic.
After baselessly claiming the scene was part
of some plot to help Joe Biden, he said he would commence further
leaks from the purported hard drive of Hunter Biden that he claims
to have in his possession.
The Fallout
Giuliani bolted from the suite and called the
cops, he told the Post in July: “This person comes in
yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a
shake-down, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away.”
“I only later realized it must have been Sacha
Baron Cohen,” he said. “I thought about all the people he
previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t
get me.”
Giuliani apparently didn’t realize that he
had, in fact, been tricked.
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