{"id":480948,"date":"2026-10-30T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480948\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:06:13","slug":"el-paso-gop-chairman-says-hell-sue-sacha-baron-cohen-over-appearance-in-new-ali-g-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480948\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso GOP chairman says he’ll sue Sacha Baron Cohen over appearance in new Ali G film"},"content":{"rendered":"

The El Paso GOP<\/a> chairman is threatening to sue after appearing in a mockumentary that shows him abducting a pregnant woman and kidnapping her newborn child.<\/p>\n

In the satirical comedy “Ali G: Who Iz I?”, GOP leader Michael Aboud is recorded attending a staged anti-terrorism training where he then joins a mission to kidnap a pregnant woman and her newborn baby to prevent the child from becoming a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n

`However, the training session, the mission, the pregnant woman and the baby were all fake – which the film portrays Aboud as unaware of.<\/p>\n

The film was released on Oct. 23 and was created by actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who is best known for his role in “Borat.”<\/p>\n

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As first reported by The Guardian<\/a>, Aboud said he was “unaware of his participation in anything other than what he believed to be a nonfiction film” about illegal border crossings until the media outlet contacted him. He called Cohen and the film crew “liars” and said he planned to sue Cohen.<\/p>\n

In the movie, Aboud is also filmed dropping the baby as it’s being carried by a drone over the border “to save the white race” and prevent it from touching U.S. soil.<\/p>\n

Aboud was first elected chairman of the El Paso County Republican Party in 2025, and is currently serving a two-year term.<\/p>\n

In a radio interview on the Howard Stern Show, Cohen said part of the film was a social experiment about extreme behavior.<\/p>\n

“If we get conspiracy theorists – terrified of immigration, terrified of the other – can we turn them into terrorists, into murderers in a few hours?” Cohen said. “That was the experiment was I wanted to show the audience again, “Can you turn someone who’s rational into a murderer in a few hours?'”<\/p>\n

Aboud, along with the El Paso and the Texas Republican Party, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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