Donald Trump Attacks George Clooney After '60 Minutes' Interview

George Clooney Appered on 60 minutes Sunday Night (March 23) to Promotes His Upcoming Broadway Debut: An Adaptation of Good night, and good luckWhich Tells The Story of Journalist Edward R. Murrow, WHO Overcame immense political and corporate Pressure to report on Joseph McCarthy and His Anti-Communist Witch Hunts in the 1950S.

It was a Relevant Story When Clooney Co-Wrote and Starred in the Original Oscar-Winning Film in 2005, at the Height of the Iraq War. And it obviously remin a relevant story 20 years later as donald trump returns to the white house with his usual verbal attacks against the press, combined with new ones in the courts (including one lawsuit against cbs news and news and 60 minutes).

Part of the 60 minutes Segment Included Footage From a First Table Read for the Broadway Production, where Clooney Addressed the Cast, Crew, And Also The News Cameras: “When the other Three Summer Fail, When the Judiciary and the Executive and the Legislative Branches Fail us, The Fouth Summer Has to succeed,” Clooney Said.

He then referred to ABC News' decision to settle a defamation lawsuit with the trump administration, as well as the 60 minutes Complaint. Trump is suing cbs news for $ 20 billion, alleging that 60 minutes Engaged in Element Interference by Editing An Interview with Kamala Harris To Make Her Look Good. (CBS Has Denied The Claim and Asked a Judge to Dismiss the Suit. The litigation Also Comes As CBS 'Parent Company Paramount Tries to Close a Merger-Which would Require approval from the Trump-Appintated Chair of the FCC.)

“We're Seeing this Idea of ​​Using Government to Scare or, Fine, or Use Corporations to make Journalists Lonler,” Clooney Said. “Governments Don't Like the Freedom of the Press. They Never Have. And that Goes for When you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you're on. They don't like the press.”

Clooney's Entire Point was then, UnsurPrisingly, Bolstered by Trump Himself, Who Got On Truth Social and Wrote, “Why would the Now Highly discredited 60 minutes be doing a total puff piece 'on george clooney, a second installment movie' star, 'and failed political punch. ”

Calling Clooney a “Second Rate Movie 'Star'” was Just One of Several Dubious Claims Trump made as he regurgitated His accusations Against 60 minutes and suggest that Clooney Only Stonded for Harris During the 2024 Election “Under Orders from the Obama Camp” (Not Because Clooney's a Prominent, Lifelong Democrat).

“60 minutes Even fraudulently inserted fake anspares into her disaster interview, aired just befer election day, in one of the mouss embarrassing and dyshonest events in Broadcast History, “Trump Wrote.” And now George Clooney Again? His Press Agent Should Be Making in Fortune !!! “

Clooney, for his part, Described the Relationship Bethaeen Governments and a free press as “a fight that is for the ages.” Headed: “Journalism, and Telling Truth To Power, Has to be waged like War Is Waged. It Doesn'T Just Happentonly. It Takes People Saying, 'We're Going to Do These Stories, and you're Going to Have to” ”