President Donald Trump railed towards George Clooney on Sunday night time after the actor, filmmaker and longtime Democratic donor appeared on “60 Minutes.”
“Why would the now extremely discredited 60 Minutes be doing a complete ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second price film ‘star,’ and failed political pundit,” Trump wrote on his Reality Social platform. “He fought arduous for Sleepy Joe’s election after which, proper after the Debate, dumped him like a canine.”
Clooney wrote an opinion piece in July of final yr urging then-President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, considered one of numerous outstanding figures calling on him to give up after a poor debate efficiency towards Trump.
Biden initially dismissed it as a “unhealthy night time,” however Clooney stated his personal dealings with the president at one other occasion had been comparable.
“It’s devastating to say it, however the Joe Biden I used to be with three weeks in the past on the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘massive F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote in The New York Occasions. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the identical man all of us witnessed on the debate.”
Biden in the end give up the race, and then-Vice President Kamala Harris took over the ticket, which Trump on Sunday night time stated was “beneath orders” from former President Barack Obama:
Later, I assume beneath orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ solely to quickly understand that that was not going to work out to properly. 60 Minutes even fraudulently inserted Faux solutions into her disastrous interview, aired simply earlier than Election Day, in probably the most embarrassing and dishonest occasions in broadcast historical past…And now George Clooney once more? His press agent must be making a fortune!!!
Trump’s rant comes as he’s suing “60 Minutes” for $20 billion after claiming the present deceptively edited an interview with Harris throughout final yr’s presidential marketing campaign.
CBS has referred to as the allegation false and moved to dismiss the swimsuit as “an affront to the First Modification.”
Clooney referenced that in his “60 Minutes” interview.
“We’re seeing this concept of utilizing authorities to scare or nice or use firms to make journalists smaller,” he stated. “Governments don’t like the liberty of the press. They by no means have. And that goes for whether or not you’re a conservative or a liberal or no matter aspect you’re on. They don’t just like the press.”
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Clooney is ready to make his Broadway debut subsequent month in a stage model of “Good Night time, and Good Luck,” his 2005 movie about TV journalist Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.).
See the complete “60 Minutes” interview under: