Sacha Baron Cohen hits back at Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani in hotel room scene from Borat 2

The man behind Borat said Donald Trump’s personal lawyer “did what he did” in a cringe-inducing scene from the provocateur’s latest film.

Sacha Baron Cohen doesn’t buy the defence of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani claimed he was merely tucking in his shirt when he put his hand down his pants while alone with a woman he thought was a foreign reporter on the set of Cohen’s new film.

“I would say that if the President’s lawyer found what he did there appropriate behaviour, then heaven knows what he’s done with other female journalists in hotel rooms,” the Borat creator told Good Morning America on Friday.

In the video, the personal lawyer to Mr Trump and former New York City mayor sits down for an interview with 24-year-old actor Maria Bakalova, who is playing Borat’s daughter and posing as a conservative TV journalist.

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Maria Bakalova removing a microphone from Rudy Giuliani.

Mr Giuliani “tucking in his shirt”.

At the end of the interview, Ms Bakalova removes the pair’s microphones and Mr Giuliani lies down on the bed, touching her waist before putting his hand down his pants.

The interaction is interrupted when Cohen bursts in wearing lingerie, informing Mr Giuliani that “she’s 15, she’s too old for you”, and pleading with Mr Giuliani to take him instead.

“I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me,” Mr Giuliani told the New York Post in July.

Mr Giuliani’s communications director quickly backed up his claim that he had foiled Cohen’s prank.

On Tuesday night, Mayor @RudyGiuliani foiled Sacha Cohen’s attempted scam-interview, ultimately ending in a stupefied Cohen.

— Christianné L Allen (@Christianne_L_A) July 9, 2020

Un-fooled and placid, Mayor Giuliani notified security to call the police. It was then, upon hearing the word police, Cohen turned from a screaming banshee into a fleeing hyena.

I hear he was last seen running down the street in his bathrobe.

Better luck next time, Sacha!

— Christianné L Allen (@Christianne_L_A) July 9, 2020

Cohen and Ms Bakalova running down the street.

On Friday, Cohen said the scene “is what it is” and Mr Giuliani “did what he did”.

He encouraged viewers to “make your own mind up” but stated “it was pretty clear to us”.

The thrust of the film revolves around Borat offering his daughter to Vice President Mike Pence (the extended title of the film is “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”).

The scene in question takes up about four minutes of the recently released satire, which is streaming now on Amazon Prime.