George Clooney Doubles Down on 2024 Decision to Pull His Support From Joe Biden | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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George Clooney is doubling down on his decision last year to stop supporting Joe Biden during the presidential election, prompting a brutal response by Donald Trump.

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00:00So George Clooney is now in Donald Trump's crosshairs

00:04over an interview he did last night,

00:06George Clooney, that aired on 60 Minutes.

00:09And he took what you might call a subtle dig

00:14at Donald Trump, he didn't go on the show for that.

00:17He has a Broadway play called Goodnight and Good Luck,

00:21which is actually a play about Edward R. Murrow.

00:25George Clooney did a movie about that previously,

00:27now he's doing a Broadway play.

00:29Edward R. Murrow was a very famous journalist

00:33who would stand up to McCarthyism,

00:36which way back in the day, in the 50s,

00:38was a big deal where Congress was trying

00:41to root out communists and went way overboard.

00:45So he obliquely talked about Edward R. Murrow's profession,

00:51the media, and the intimation was,

00:55look out for Donald Trump.

00:56ABC has just settled a lawsuit

00:58with the Trump administration,

01:00and CBS News is in the process.

01:03We're seeing this idea of using government

01:06to scare or fine or use corporations

01:10to make journalists smaller.

01:14Governments don't like the freedom of the press,

01:16they never have.

01:17We now are at a place where we've found

01:20that it's harder and harder and harder

01:22to discern the truth.

01:24Facts are now negotiated.

01:27I will say, we're gonna get into what Donald Trump said

01:31in a minute, but I just gotta say one thing,

01:34that when you look at the media right now,

01:37there is so much that is skewed one way or the other,

01:41both sides.

01:42Everyone's an activist now,

01:43you don't get any down-the-center coverage.

01:45But down-the-center coverage means full coverage,

01:49because there are very few issues

01:51where there are not weaknesses.

01:53There are strengths and there are weaknesses.

01:55On both silos, you see the strengths, not the weakness,

01:59the strengths, not the weakness.

02:00You can go, it's amazing, Harvey,

02:02you watch cable news and go to MSNBC,

02:04go to Fox News.

02:05Different worlds.

02:06Right, same story, completely different.

02:08And so the idea of saying that it's the government

02:12that's making the media smaller.

02:14In a way, the media made the media smaller.

02:17But Donald Trump is threatening that.

02:19Remember, he sued ABC and successfully got a settlement.

02:22Yeah, 16 million bucks.

02:23Suing 60 Minutes.

02:25For $20 billion, by the way,

02:27over the Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview.

02:29Which is that they allegedly edited this thing

02:32in a way that they didn't, but he's saying they did.

02:37So that's on the table right now.

02:38So this is what Donald Trump came out and said

02:41after the George Clooney interview.

02:44Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes

02:47be doing a total puff piece on George Clooney,

02:51a second-rate movie star, and failed political pundit?

02:56He goes on, he fought hard for Sleepy Joe's election

03:00and then, right after the debate,

03:02dumped him like a dog, pushed all out for Kamala,

03:06only to soon realize that was not going to work out well.

03:11So, you know, it is really interesting

03:17that you can say whatever you want about George Clooney.

03:19Yeah.

03:20He's not a second-rate movie star.

03:21Nah, probably not.

03:21I mean, you know, he's pretty big.

03:24He does two things.

03:25First off, when George Clooney's talking

03:26about the government trying to defund media,

03:29he's not talking about just CNN or CBS.

03:32He's talking about PBS and NPR,

03:34which the Trump administration is actively trying to do.

03:38And PBS is not a partisan network by any means.

03:41You can say what you want about NPR, not PBS.

03:44And then I think Trump is going after George Clooney

03:48because he's threatened by Clooney.

03:50He knows that if anyone can take him down,

03:52it's going to be a celebrity.

03:54And when you listen to that 60 Minutes interview,

03:57George Clooney sounds pretty good.

03:58Like, he has pretty good political chops.

04:01He's been involved in politics for a long time.

04:03And if you told me in a few years from now,

04:05the country rallied behind George Clooney

04:08as the Democratic nominee

04:10who eventually took down Donald Trump,

04:11I don't think that's that far-fetched.

04:14I don't know that that's going to happen.

04:15And I got to say,

04:18George Clooney had a really interesting take

04:20because ultimately the Democrats lost

04:22and George Clooney was part of that.

04:25But the whole Joe Biden debacle,

04:30which is what George Clooney called out after the debate.

04:33Yes.

04:34I have something to say about that.

04:35Here's what he said on 60 Minutes.

04:37Looking back on that, happy you did it?

04:40Yeah.

04:41I'll make it kind of easy.

04:42I was raised to tell the truth.

04:44I had seen the president up close for this fundraiser

04:50and I was surprised.

04:51And so I feel as if there was a lot of profiles

04:55and cowardice in my party through all of that.

04:59And I was not proud of that.

05:01And I also believed I had to tell the truth.

05:04So number one, look, I mean, he did

05:07and he made a difference,

05:09but he also waited until after the debate to do it

05:12because the fundraiser was before the debate.

05:14Oh yeah.

05:15So if you saw it, you know,

05:17you got to wonder why not call it out earlier.

05:19I was just about to give him credit

05:20as being the only person that actually stood up

05:23and said something, but you're right, Harvey.

05:25He only did it once it became clear

05:27that Joe Biden was not going to beat Donald Trump.

05:29Had that debate never happened,

05:31George Clooney was going to take that with him,

05:33you know, mouth shut,

05:34and he was not going to say a single word.

05:35And on that point, I had breakfast with somebody

05:39who is high, high up in the Democrat party,

05:4410 months before the debate.

05:46And this person was telling me that we,

05:50that Joe Biden, we tell him,

05:52do not do anything after eight o'clock at night because-

05:55I remember you saying that before the debate, by the way.

05:58Long before the debate.

05:59So they didn't do anything.

06:01So in terms of the profiles and cowardice

06:03that George Clooney is talking about, they knew.

06:05Right.

06:06They knew.

06:07And as George Clooney sits up there

06:08and laments about the media, I mean,

06:10where was all the media that was around Joe Biden

06:12day in, day out for four years and didn't say a single peep?

06:16That's why I have heart accepting

06:17what he's saying about the media.

06:18Hi, my name is Donnell Macklin from Manhattan, New York,

06:21currently in Las Vegas.

06:22And I agree with Mr. Clooney.

06:23I feel like whatever he saw at that fundraiser

06:26or that debate, clearly it was what us,

06:28the American people saw.

06:29And it was that President Biden's cognitive state

06:32looked very questionable.

06:33Had the Biden administration not been so selfish,

06:36we may have had our first female president last year.

06:39So I am gonna be with George and saying,

06:41I'm happy he's doubling down on his words

06:44because it means a lot.

06:46Yeah.

06:46Do you think Kamala Harris would have won

06:48if she would have had another two months?

06:49I honestly think if I don't,

06:52honestly, I don't think she would have won,

06:53but I think if she had a free chance

06:55or if he had that one election

06:56and then we started fresh with her,

06:58we may have had a fair chance.

06:59But the fact that we got to see Joe at that debate,

07:01the American people seeing him eating ice cream,

07:03seeing him walking upstairs, having a hard time,

07:05it was tough to, you know, get behind that.

07:09♪♪

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