SACHA Baron Cohen crashed a far-right militia event and led a racist sing-along about injecting politicians with the “Wuhan flu”.
The comedian infiltrated the Washington Three Percenters rally and encouraged some of the attendees to repeat his lyrics about infecting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Dr Fauci.
According to event organizers, Sacha Baron Cohen infiltrated a rally on Saturday organized by far-right group the Three Percenters, billed as ‘March for Our Rights 3’.
The far-right militia group has previously organized gun rights rallies and according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “The reference to 3 percent stems from the dubious historical claim that only 3 percent of American colonists fought against the British during the War of Independence.”
The actor took to the stage dressed as the lead country singer of the previous band.
In footage taken from the event, a man believed to be Cohen can be seen encouraging festival-goers to sing about injecting scientists, journalists and political figures with the ‘Wuhan flu’.
Some of the lyrics included: “Dr Fauci, what we gonna do?/Inject him with the Wuhan flu…/Hillary Clinton, what we gonna do?/Lock her up like we used to do.”
‘Wuhan flu’ could be a reference to COVID-19, which is believed to have originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Then, referring to the death of Jamal Khashoggi who was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Turkey in 2018, the man on stage got the crowd to sing about journalists and how they should “chop them up like the Saudis do”.
After the rally, Cohen is believed to have disguised himself as a journalist in order to get reactions from the crowd.
Yelm City Councilman James Blair wrote on Facebook after the event: “He came on stage disguised as the lead singer of the last band, singing a bunch of racist, hateful, disgusting shit.
“His security blocked event organizers from getting him off the stage, or pulling power from the generator.”
“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.
But as the video shows, some members of the crowd were more than willing to sing along with him for quite some time.
