George Clooney Gets In A Little Dig In Response To Hunter Biden’s ‘F**k Him!’ Comments

Posted on 04/11/2025 by Boris Clair

George Clooney has seen what Hunter Biden has said about him ― but he doesn’t want to spend his time “debunking” it line by line.

The Ocean’s Eleven actor is involved in a bit of a public feud with the former president’s son, as Clooney was one of the most public figures to call for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race ahead of the 2024 election.

At the time, Hunter Biden didn’t take too kindly to Clooney’s involvement, which he made known in a three-hour-long interview in July.

“Fuck him!” the president’s son said at the time. “Fuck him and everybody around him. I don’t have to be fucking nice. Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. Fucking George Clooney is not a fucking actor. He’s fucking like … I don’t know what he is. He’s a brand.”

“What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his fucking life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full-page ad in the fucking New York Times to undermine the president,” he continued.

Clooney had a less heated response to the artist’s outburst.

“I could spend a lot of time debunking many of the things he said because many of the things he said were just outright lies,” Clooney said in a new interview with CBS that aired over the weekend.

“But the reality is, I don’t think looking backwards like that is helpful to anyone ― particularly to him,” the Oscar winner added, before getting in a little dig.

“I don’t think it’s helpful for the Democratic Party, and so I’m just gonna wish him well on his ongoing recovery, and I hope he does well and just leave it at that,” Clooney shared. “I have many personal opinions about it, but I don’t find it to be helpful to have a public spat with him.”

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Though Clooney has said he doesn’t regret his Times op-ed and that he would write it again, he does think making Kamala Harris the presidential nominee was a “mistake”.

“I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary,” the actor told CBS.

“I think the mistake with it being Kamala is she had to run against her own record,” he said, adding that “it’s very hard to do, if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ It’s hard to do.”

“And so she was given a very tough task,” Clooney said.

Bill Clinton Says He Wishes Joe Biden Didn’t Do This Thing Before Pardoning His Son

Posted on 05/12/2024 by Boris Clair

Bill Clinton said on Wednesday that you “can’t take the politics out of” presidential pardoning decisions as he weighed in on Joe Biden’s recent pardon of his son Hunter Biden.

“I wish he hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it. I think it does weaken his case,” Clinton said of Joe Biden, who had vowed he wouldn’t pardon his son, who was found guilty in June of illegally owning a gun in 2018 and pleaded guilty in a tax case in September.

Clinton, in remarks to Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, said the president had “reason to believe” his son would likely face “far stronger, adverse consequences” than the average person.

On Sunday, Biden said in a statement that his son was “unfairly” and selectively prosecuted, adding that he was “singled out” due to his ties to his father. The move by the president has led to bipartisan condemnation in the days since.

Clinton dismissed comparisons of Biden’s pardon to his own 2001 pardon of his half-brother Roger Clinton Jr, who was convicted of cocaine possession and drug trafficking in 1985.

“The real question was, would he ever be able to vote again? Would he ever be able to have normal citizenship responsibilities?” said the former president, who noted that his half-brother had already served a 14-month sentence in federal prison at the time.

He continued, “And I’ve been sort of upset that there’s been almost no discussion about the larger problem, which is, does the pardon system we have work?”

Bill Clinton, who urged Americans to see Biden’s move in a “larger context,” then turned to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ (Democrat, New York) call for the president to also pardon those “in the federal prison system whose lives have been ruined by unjustly aggressive prosecutions for nonviolent offences.”

He said that Biden is “almost certainly right” that his son received “completely different treatments” than he would have otherwise.

But the issue over the pardon, he said, isn’t “way high” on his “hierarchy of things” he’s supposed to be upset about.

Sorkin later asked Clinton if Biden should pardon President-elect Donald Trump in what could be seen as a “balanced” move prior to the change in administrations.

“Well, I do think we should stop trying to criminalise politics,” Clinton said.

He later continued, “Both of them. … And the people like it when they are not going along with it from right to left. On the other hand, you have to ask yourself, if you do this as a blanket thing, is there anything a president could do that he or she someday would get in trouble for?”

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Right-Wing Pundit Hit With Brutal Reminders After Complaining About Biden Pardon

Posted on 02/12/2024 by Boris Clair

Right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza got some swift rejoinders on social media after he criticized President Joe Biden for pardoning his son Hunter this weekend.

“No one is above the law ― except my son Hunter!” the conspiracy theorist wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday.

As many people quickly pointed out, D’Souza got his own presidential pardon from Donald Trump in 2018, having pleaded guilty in 2014 to campaign finance law violations.

Biden pardoned his son on Sunday despite saying previously he would not do so. Hunter Biden was found guilty in June of illegally owning a gun in 2018. He also pleaded guilty in September to not paying his taxes. He was due to be sentenced later this month in both cases.

President-elect Trump, for his part, pardoned friends, allies and associates during his first term, but called Biden’s move an abuse of power. He has also vowed to pardon the people convicted of crimes for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that Trump incited.

Also on Sunday, D’Souza admitted in a lengthy statement on his website that various claims he made about “ballot harvesting” in “2000 Mules” ― his 2022 conspiracy film about the 2020 election ― were inaccurate. He apologized to a man, Mark Andrews, who sued him for defamation over his inclusion in the movie.

D’Souza was offered a few reminders after his Biden complaint:

Marjorie Taylor Greene Shows Photos Of Naked Hunter Biden At IRS Whistleblower Hearing

Posted on 20/07/2023 by Boris Clair

WASHINGTON — A pair of career IRS agents told the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that the Justice Department stifled their investigation into tax crimes by the son of US president Joe Biden and pursued weaker charges than they had recommended.

But some Republicans did not want to delve into the whistleblower allegations, including Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who used her question time during the hearing to display what appeared to be naked pictures of Hunter Biden obtained from his laptop.

“What’s even more troubling to me is that the Department of Justice has brought no charges against Hunter Biden that will vindicate the rights of these women,” Greene said, holding up pictures that appeared to show the president’s son making sex tapes with women whom Greene claimed were sex workers.

“Should we be displaying this, Mr. Chairman?” the committee’s top Democrat Representative Jamie Raskin asked committee Republican chair James Comer, who did not answer.

Naked pictures of Hunter Biden are exactly the sort of sordid material that Comer once said he considered “very counter to a credible investigation”.

Comer had called the hearing to hear from IRS whistleblowers who have claimed the Justice Department prevented them from taking investigatory steps they thought were warranted to bring charges against the president’s son.

The younger Biden has been open about his addictions to drugs and alcohol spiralling out of control following his brother’s death in 2015. He made questionable business deals with foreign nationals that earned him millions and created an appearance of conflict of interest because of his father’s government service. He’s due in court next week on misdemeanour charges relating to his alleged failure to pay tax on income he earned in 2017 and 2018.

The IRS whistleblowers said they recommended he be charged with felonies, but their recommendations were rebuffed by Justice Department officials in an unusual manner. And they said the federal prosecutor overseeing the case, US Attorney David Weiss, a holdover from the Donald Trump administration, told them he couldn’t bring charges outside of Delaware. Weiss and US Attorney General Merrick Garland have insisted Weiss had complete authority to bring charges however he wanted.

The hearing did not resolve the contradiction between the IRS agents’ previous allegations and the denials from the Justice Department. In their public testimony, the agents essentially repeated what they’d already told lawmakers in a private deposition.

“It appeared to me, based on what I experienced, that the US attorney in Delaware, in our investigation, was constantly hamstrung, limited and marginalised by DOJ officials as well as other US attorneys,” IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler told the House Oversight Committee.

The other whistleblower, Gary Shapley, a supervisory agent in the IRS criminal division, said he didn’t know if Garland had deliberately lied.

“I have never claimed to have evidence that Attorney General Garland knowingly lied to Congress,” Shapley said.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said Republicans would move to impeach Garland if the whistleblower testimony proves true. “We need to get to the facts, and that includes reconciling these clear disparities,” McCarthy said in June.

The allegation that the Justice Department went easy on a member of the president’s family has become a centrepiece of an overarching Republican message that there’s a two-tier justice system persecuting Trump and his supporters and protecting the Bidens. The former president has been indicted on federal charges related to retaining classified public documents and he could face additional charges for his efforts to undo the 2020 election.

Democrats suggested the discrepancy between statements from the Justice Department and the whistleblowers reflected their frustration with the common phenomenon of prosecutors not following through on investigators’ recommendations.

“I think you have a tough view on what you think the law should be. This is why we have a prosecutorial system,” Democrat Representative Ro Khanna said. “It turns out, often your recommendations on who should be charged differ from some of the other folks, and that’s what happened in this case.”

Shapley testified that such disagreements occur in “the vast majority” of cases but insisted the Hunter Biden case was different from any other he’d worked on.

Raskin said it appeared Hunter Biden had not received any favouritism.

“The fact that Hunter Biden faced a four-year criminal probe involving dozens of agents and prosecutors from the IRS, the FBI, the US attorney’s office in Delaware,” Raskin said, “demonstrates in my mind at least that he received no special treatment, but arguably tougher treatment than the millions of people who never faced criminal investigation for doing the same thing.”

Hunter Biden’s Lawyer Sends Cease-And-Desist Letter To Trump Legal Team

Posted on 14/07/2023 by Boris Clair

A lawyer for Hunter Biden sent a cease-and-desist letter to Donald Trump’s legal team on Thursday, warning the former president to stop spreading dangerous rhetoric online, ABC News first reported.

In the letter, attorney Abbe Lowell argued that Trump’s posts and language “could lead to [Hunter Biden’s] or his family’s injury”, citing several examples from recent months.

Trump has frequently targeted Hunter Biden — in fact, Lowell claimed in the letter that his name has appeared more than 20 times in Trump’s posts in July alone.

This week, Trump dragged in Hunter Biden’s name amid an investigation of a small baggie of cocaine found this month near a visitor entrance at the White House, suggesting the cocaine might have belonged to Hunter Biden, who is a recovering addict.

“You know, if Mr Trump does not, that Mr. Biden has neither committed nor been accused of the charges that your client is claiming … and that the Biden family was not at the White House (let alone in the vestibule) in the period when the cocaine was found,” Lowell wrote. The Secret Service concluded the cocaine investigation on Thursday with no suspect found.

A day later, Trump put up a post attacking David Weiss, the federal prosecutor who oversaw Hunter Biden’s tax investigation, according to the letter. Biden reached an agreement in June and will plead guilty to some federal charges. Trump called Weiss a “coward” and asserted that he “gave out a traffic ticket instead of a death sentence”.

“You may respond that this was a mere figure of speech. However, we have seen that what might pass as such a phrase when uttered by [rational] people is heard by too many in this country as some terrible injustice for which they must take physical and violent action,” Lowell wrote in the letter, referring to Trump’s alleged incitement of the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Throughout the letter, Lowell continued to cite notable examples of Trump using dangerous rhetoric and language to incite violence. Last month, Trump also posted on his social media site the alleged address of former President Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, residence, NBC News reported. The post was reshared by Capitol riot defendant Taylor Taranto, who was arrested June 29 after approaching Obama’s house while his van was parked nearby with weapons inside.

“This is not a false alarm,” Lowell wrote in the letter. “We are just one such social media message away from another incident, and you should make clear to Mr Trump ― if you have not done so already ― that Mr Trump’s words have caused harm in the past and threaten to do so again if he does not stop.”

Trump has faced legal repercussions for rhetoric he has spread both online and offline, which, as Lowell cautioned in the letter, has the potential to escalate if he doesn’t dial back on it. The attorney encouraged the former president’s legal team to explain to him “how his incitement can further hurt people and cause himself even more legal trouble”.

HuffPost reached out to Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina, who declined to comment.

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