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Sacha Baron Cohen crashes right-wing Olympia rally with epic prank


Sacha Baron Cohen (Photo by Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Photo by Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images)
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Actor and professional prankster Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off his latest stunt Saturday - at a right-wing rally in Olympia - taking the stage and getting some people to sing racist lyrics about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the "Wuhan flu."

The rally, titled “March for Our Rights 3,” was reportedly organized by the Washington Three Percenters, a right-wing militia organization.

According to social media posts from event participants, Baron Cohen disguised himself as the leader of a political action committee, Back-to-Work-USA, who wanted to help sponsor the rally with a large donation.

He brought his own security team who prevented organizers from kicking him off stage once he began singing and turning off the power to his microphone.

Once on stage and in disguise, Baron Cohen and his band performed a song with racist lyrics and had members of the crowd repeat words back to him. One verse of the song went like this:

“Obama, what we gonna do? Inject him with the Wuhan flu. Hillary Clinton, what we gonna do? Lock her up like we used to do. Fauci don’t know his head from his ass. He must be smoking grass. I ain’t lying, it ain’t no joke. Corona is a liberal hoax. Dr. Fauci, what we gonna do? Inject him with the Wuhan flu. WHO, what we gonna do? Chop ’em up like the Saudis do."

Yelm City Councilman James Blair, who was there, wrote on Facebook after the event that Cohen "came on stage disguised as the lead singer of the last band, singing a bunch of racist, hateful, disgusting (expletive)."

“After the crowd realized what he was saying, and turned on him, his security then rushed the stage and evacuated them to a waiting private ambulance that was contracted to be their escape transport,” Blair added.

Some event participants also said it appeared that several of the people singing along to the racist lyrics were "plants" hired by Cohen who were wearing earpieces, costumes and straw hats.

The Washington Three Percenters have denounced Cohen for his stunt, and one participant tells KOMO News that some of the rally organizers have received death threats since the incident.

Cohen, who has created such memorable characters as Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard and Admiral General Aladeen, currently hosts the political satire show “Who Is America?” He has made a career out of tricking unwitting victims into doing or saying embarrassing things on camera.

It's not clear whether Cohen plans to use his Olympia stunt on a possible future second season of "Who Is America?"

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