Boris Johnson annihilated by Emily Maitlis and Brian Cox in jaw-dropping US election scenes

While the votes for convicted criminal Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were being counted, Channel 4's Emily Maitlis and Krishnan Guru-Murthy invited a rotating series of guests onto the programme to discuss the US election

Boris Johnson was completely annihilated by newsreader Emily Maitlis and Succession star Brian Cox during the Channel 4 coverage of the US election.

While the votes for convicted criminal Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were being counted, Channel 4's Maitlis and Krishnan Guru-Murthy invited a rotating series of guests onto the programme to discuss the unfolding US election and the country's politics. Other guests included Stormy Daniels and Boris Johnson.

Former Prime Minister Johnson was on the show as a Trump supporter but was shut down when Maitlis questioned him about his "Trump-like behaviour" he "started importing" while he was the prime minister. Maitlis said: “You essentially started importing some of that Trump-like behaviour in Britain when you were prime minister.

"His disregard for institutions, his disregard for the rule of law, his denialism, which I think, I guess, was mirrored in your response to the privileges committee, your response to the parliament standards committee, your proroguing of parliament. This is all Trump-like behaviour.”

Johnson laughed before telling Maitlis that he "disagreed profoundly" with her statement before promoting his book several times. She told him: "I don’t know why it’s funny" and Johnson told her he didn't "accept" her analogy "at all" and added that it was "very dangerous" to compare UK and US politics.

He attempted to talk about Brexit before Maitlis told him: "I don’t know why you’re talking about Brexit, you know precisely what we’re talking about." Maitlis talked about how he rejected the Owen Paterson affair, where he was found to have broken standard laws. He said he was wrong to have done so and tried to talk about what he thought was an appropriate response to the coronavirus.

“It’s nothing to do with that, you know it’s not to do with that – it’s about how you respond to institutions and people calling out your lies," Maitlis told him. Succession actor Brian Cox was also on the programme calling Trump a "monster", but Johnson was quick to defend the Apprentice star.

Cox said: "We have to make sure that he doesn’t get in because he is a monster, he really is. He’s crazy, he’s insane, he wants to be a dictator. I think he’s lost it, quite frankly. I think he’s deeply mentally unstable and I think he has been for some time. This is not a man who should be the president of the United States, absolutely not. He’s unreliable, he’s a convicted felon, I’m horrified.”

Johnson said he didn't think fears about Trump becoming president (again) and his comments on "giving away" Ukraine to Russia were accurate. Cox shut him down and said: "It’s ridiculous – of course he will. He’ll do what suits him. He’ll do what suits Donald Trump. The man is completely self-serving. He is totally self-serving. He is only interested in one thing, and that’s Donald Trump. He doesn’t give a damn about America, he really doesn’t.”

Speaking about what Trump would do about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Johnson said: "I think he will come to it and he will see that if he surrenders, if he allows [Vladimir] Putin to win – for his pride, for his ego – it’s a disaster for America, it’s a disaster for the world. You can say that I’m wrong and I’m starry-eyed, and it’s not going to work out like that, and he’ll find a way of surrendering to Putin that somehow protects his reputation, his legacy. I don’t see how you do that – it’s a pretty unpolishable turd to be frank.”

Cox answered: "I don’t buy it. I don’t buy any of it.”

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