George Clooney is taking on CBS and ABC for bending the knee to President Donald Trump and his administration.
The actor, in a Variety cover story published Tuesday, was “enraged” by the major TV networks settling lawsuits with the president over the past year and change.
CBS parent company Paramount settled Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against “60 Minutes” ahead of the company’s merger with Skydance, a move that required the administration’s approval. And ABC News reached a settlement with the president in a separate defamation lawsuit last December.
“If CBS and ABC had challenged those lawsuits and said, ‘Go fuck yourself,’ we wouldn’t be where we are in the country,” Clooney said.
“That’s simply the truth.”
