RUDY Giuliani told a female reporter she "looks pretty" as he was tricked into sitting down with her for an interview in the latest Borat movie, released on Friday.
Giuliani met the “honey trap” reporter at a hotel in July for what he thought was an interview about the Trump administration's coronavirus response.
Wearing a mask, Giuliani walks into a hotel room and sits down in a chair across from the reporter – who is, in the film, Borat's daughter, named Tutar.
Giuliani and the 24-year-old actress Maria Bakalova, from Bulgaria, sit down as Tutar explains to him she’s very nervous for the interview.
“Nice to meet you,” she tells the former New York City mayor, as they shake hands. “You are one of my greatest heroes of all.”
“I will try my best but because I’m super excited and nervous,” she starts, to which Giuliani replies that he’ll ask her the questions instead if she were to get nervous.
“I’ll relax you, OK?” Giuliani, who is President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, says as the two laugh.
“I feel like I’m living in a fairy tale,” Tutar tells Giuliani, who then holds the reporter’s hands and tells her: “You’re gonna do great, OK?”
At this point in the film, Borat rushed into the hotel and tells security, who asks for his ID, that he “must defend my daughter’s vagine from America’s mayor” – referring to Giuliani.
In the hotel room, Tutar asks about national security and what Giuliani thinks “we can do forward forward to prevent [coronavirus] from happening again.”
“Well China manufactured the virus and let it go, and they deliberately spread it all around the world,” Giuliani said. I don’t think anybody was eating bats.”
Giuliani then asks her: “Did you ever have a bat?”
The two laugh as she says she doesn’t think she’d ever eat a bat, but Tutar then says: “If you eat a bat with me…”
“OK, yeah, I’ll eat a bat with you,” Giuliani says as the two laugh before Tutar reaches over and touches Giuliani’s leg, telling him he’s “so funny.”
Borat is seen running through the service entrance of the hotel trying to access his daughter in the hotel room.
There, Giuliani says he thinks Trump has “saved a million lives” and could’ve saved a million more.
Giuliani coughs a bit but says he’s “good” as the two cheers their glasses that have a light brown liquid in them.
Tutar explains she’s always been behind the camera, rather than in front of it as an interviewer.
“I think you can look pretty, you’re gonna look pretty good,” Giuliani says as he flashes a big smile.”
“It’s because of you,” Tutar tells him. “I really feel like Melania right now.”
Borat then walks into the hotel room carrying a boom mic and complains that the sound is bad.
He plays around with Giuliani’s mic and asks if Tutar is “asking too many questions,” but Giuliani says Tutar is “doing great.”
Borat and Tutar walk off and when Tutar returns, she apologizes for the interruption but ends the interview and asks, “Shall we have a drink in the bedroom?”
They head to the bedroom with their glasses and Giuliani sits on the bed as Tutar works to take off his mic.
Giuliani tells who he thinks is a reporter that she can give him her phone number and address and pats her left side near her waist a few times.
Then the film changes to the mirror shot of Giuliani laying on the bed as he readjusts his shirt in his pants – the moment that has been claimed to show Giuliani in a questionable situation.
Stills released from the movie earlier this week showed Giuliani with his hand down his pants, which Giuliani has denied being anything other than him tucking in his shirt.
At this point, Borat runs in dressed in what appears to be pink lingerie and shouts: “She’s 15, she’s too old for you.”
“Why are you dressed like this?” Giuliani asks. “She’s my daughter, please take me instead,” Borat says as Giuliani leaves the hotel room.
On Friday morning, Baron Cohen said on Good Morning America that is Giuliani "found what he did there [was] appropriate behavior, then heaven knows what he has done with other female journalists in hotel rooms."
"I urge everyone to watch the movie. It is what it is, he did what he did," Baron Cohen said.
"Make your own mind up. It was pretty clear to us."
After the bizarre scene over the summer, Giuliani called the NYPD to report a man wearing a "crazy" outfit.
“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Giuliani said in July, according to Page Six.
“It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.
“This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shakedown, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away."
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“I only later realized it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.”
Giuliani said in response to him being in the new Borat film: "At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate. If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar.
He also said his part in the film is retaliation for his involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
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