Former Alabama Judge and failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is attempting to keep his $95 million lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen and Showtime alive by claiming the network committed fraud when it swindled him — along with several other politicians — into getting scanned for pedophilia on Cohen’s “Who Is America” show, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Moore and his attorneys claim that the consent agreement he signed to appear on the show is invalid because the pretense for appearing on the show were fraudulent. Moore reportedly thought that he was going to appear on Yerushalayim TV and accept an award for his support of Israel.
In the Moore episode, Cohen pretended to be an Israeli anti-terrorism expert who interviewed Moore and ultimately pulled out a fake pedophile detector instrument to point at Moore. Moore — who was accused of molesting teenage girls when he was in his 30s — eventually stopped the conversation.
“There are at least two primary misrepresentations at issue,” Moore’s attorney Larry Klayman said in the complaint, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “The first misrepresentation was that Judge Moore was being flown to Washington, D.C., to receive an award for his support of Israel, when in actuality it was so that he could be falsely portrayed as a pedophile on national television. The second misrepresentation was that the television segment was being produced by Yerushalayim TV, and not Defendant Cohen, Showtime, and CBS.”
Watch the video of Moore getting duped below:
Well, that’s pathetic.
“The first misrepresentation was that Judge Moore was being flown to Washington, D.C., to receive an award for his support of Israel, when in actuality it was so that he could be falsely portrayed as a pedophile on national television."
So, essentially, his defense is he’s dumb as a box of rocks.
Sure. Right.
FFS. Does anyone who is not Larry Klayman think Sacha Baron Cohen forgot, in all these years of pranking public figures, to check with a non-Klayman lawyer on the legal issues involved? He’s been sued a number of times, and the suits are dismissed. He does this for a living, Larry. You should try finding a profession yourself one of these years.
And he’s pretty good at it.