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-Richard Gere and wife eye US comeback months after moving to Spain
-George Clooney's wife Amal could be barred from future US visits due to Trump sanctions related to work: report
-Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa's autopsy shows she had 'fluid accumulation in her chest' at time of death
APART TOGETHER - Gwyneth Paltrow embraces trend of living apart from spouse as experts warn it can make or break a marriage.
MAKING A SPLASH - Christie Brinkley's 'National Lampoon' co-star Beverly D'Angelo saved her from going topless in film.
HARD PASS - Martha Stewart admits she's never ordered takeout despite being Uber Eats spokesperson.
COUNTRY HEAT - Sydney Sweeney cozies up to Blake Lively's co-star at Stagecoach.
PUPPY LOVE - Angie Harmon was 'saved' in unexpected way after delivery driver killed her dog.
FAMILY FIRST - Donnie Wahlberg says 'Blue Bloods' spinoff won't ever just be him, a Reagan will be 'a phone call away.'
TAKING THE PLUNGE - Valerie Bertinelli strips down as she experiments with trendy wellness routine.
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5 hours ago
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Hunter Biden lashes out at George Clooney, other Democrats, over Joe Biden's 2024 campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden's son Hunter, seen by some as the problem child of the Democratic Party for legal and drug-related woes that brought negative attention to his father, is lashing out against Democratic 'elites' and others over the way he says his father was treated during last year's presidential campaign. Hunter Biden spoke publicly in recent interviews about last year's election, when Joe Biden ultimately dropped his bid and Donald Trump won the White House. In a three-hour, expletive-filled online interview with Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5, he directed ire toward actor and Democratic Party donor George Clooney for his decision to call on the elder Biden to abandon his 2024 reelection bid. He also ranted against longtime Democratic advisers he accused of making money off the party and trading off previous electoral successes, but not helping candidates' current efforts. The lengthy screed made plain the younger Biden's feelings that his father was mistreated by those around him in the waning days of his candidacy and administration. He also laid bare critiques of the party's operation and operatives that, he says, aren't well-serving its opposition to Trump and the Republican Party. Here's a look at some of the moments in Hunter Biden's interview: He blasted George Clooney Hunter Biden spared no feelings in his assessment of the actor, questioning why anyone should listen to the 'Ocean's Eleven' star. Clooney supported Joe Biden's bid for a second term, even headlining a record-setting fundraiser for the then-president, but changed his stance after Biden's disastrous debate performance against Trump in June 2024. Clooney made his feelings known in an opinion piece in The New York Times, adding his voice to mounting calls for the then-81-year-old president to drop his presidential bid. Biden ended up leaving the race a few weeks later and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, who went on to lose to Trump. 'What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his f——— life to the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f——— New York Times to undermine the president,' Hunter Biden said before he trailed off to talk about how Republicans are more unified than Democrats. Los Angeles-based representatives for Clooney did not respond to an emailed request for comment. Screed against longtime Democratic advisers There were also weighty critiques of a number of longtime Democratic advisers. Anita Dunn, a longtime Biden senior adviser, has made '$40 to $50 million' off of work for the Democratic Party, Hunter Biden said. James Carville, adviser to former President Bill Clinton, 'hasn't run a race in 40 f——— years.' Former Obama strategist David Axelrod, Hunter Biden said, 'had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama — and that was because of Barack Obama.' Other former Obama aides who now host 'Pod Save America," are 'four white millionaires that are dining out on their association with Barack Obama from 16 years ago,' he said. One of the four, Tommy Vietor, Monday on social media applauded Hunter Biden's decision 'to process the election, look inward, and hold himself accountable for how his family's insular, dare I say arrogant at times, approach to politics led to this catastrophic outcome we're all now living with.' In a message Tuesday, Axelrod told The Associated Press, 'Never have the words 'no comment' felt more appropriate.' Dunn did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Biden's debate performance and Ambien effects As for the debate performance, the fallout from which ultimately led to the calls for his father to step down from the 2024 presidential campaign, Hunter Biden said his father may have been recovering from Ambien, a medication that he had been given to help him sleep following trips in the weeks before the debate to Europe, as well as the Los Angeles fundraiser at which Clooney said his interactions with Biden made him feel the president wasn't mentally capable. 'He's 81 years old, he's tired as shit,' Hunter Biden said. 'They give him Ambien to be able to sleep, and he gets up on the stage and he looks like he's a deer in the headlights.' A spokesperson for Joe Biden declined to comment on the interview. Another podcast with Jaime Harrison Hunter Biden also appeared Monday in an episode of 'At Our Table,' a new podcast hosted by former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison. 'Yeah, Joe Biden did get old. He got old before our eyes. ... But you know what? A few changes does not mean that you do not have the mental capacity to be able to do your job.' In that interview, Hunter Biden also talked about the calamitous presidential debate. 'And then they saw him at that debate. It was awful, and it was truly horrible,' he said, saying he was opposed to holding it, given Trump's recent convictions on 34 felony charges in a New York hush money case. To Harrison, Hunter Biden also addressed Clooney, saying, 'I love George Clooney's movies, but I don't really give a s—- about what he thinks about who should be the nominee for the Democratic Party.' Asked by Harrison about his father's decision to quit the 2024 race, Hunter Biden said 'I think that he could have won' but still made the right choice for Democrats broadly." 'I know that it wasn't a mistake in that moment,' Hunter Biden said, adding that his father 'chose to save the party' over saving himself. Why are these podcasts coming out now? The podcast drops come just days ahead of the expected beginning of court proceedings in a Los Angeles federal court. Hunter Biden is suing Patrick Byrne, alleging that the former CEO of falsely claimed that Hunter Biden was reaching out to the Iranian government in the fall of 2021 and offering to have his father Joe Biden 'unfreeze' $8 billion in Iranian funds 'in return for $800 million being funneled into a numbered account for us.' In the waning days of his administration, Joe Biden pardoned his son, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family. The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California. The move came weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax charges, and less than two months before Trump returned to the White House. ___ Kinnard reported from Chapin, S.C., and can be reached at ___ Follow the AP's coverage of Hunter Biden at
Politico
11 hours ago
- Politico
Hunter Biden's alternate history
BLAME GAME — Hunter Biden suddenly has a lot to say. In multiple interviews released this week, he addressed his drug addiction, his infamous laptop, his father dropping out of the race for president and media coverage of his family, with some particularly choice words reserved for CNN anchor Jake Tapper, the co-author of a recent book about Joe Biden, actor George Clooney and The New York Times. It's understandable that the president's son might want to defend the family in the wake of recriminations over Biden's legacy, as a wave of books and negative press accounts have come out about the 46th president's health in his final years in office. But the decision to air his grievances — and crowd out the news cycle at a moment when Donald Trump and his party are desperately trying to divert attention away from the Jeffrey Epstein saga — isn't being welcomed by Democrats. In Hunter's most notable interview, spanning over three hours with online documentarian Andrew Callaghan and his network Channel 5, the younger Biden pontificates at length on his own addiction and recovery, before tearing into the party apparatus that he believes pushed his dad to abandon his 2024 campaign. Hunter's lengthy comments, filmed a month ago, represent an unvarnished look into the collective psyche of the close-knit Biden family since the former president dropped out. What it reveals is a lack of awareness and accountability for Biden's own role in losing the 2024 election, in favor of an alternate history. One profanity-laced tirade stands out. 'Fuck [George Clooney]! Fuck him and everyone around him. I don't have to be fucking nice,' Biden said. 'Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney is not a fucking actor, he's a fucking — I don't know what he is, he's a brand … Fuck you, what do you have to do with fucking anything, why do I have to fucking listen to you? What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his fucking life to the service of his country, and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full-page ad in fucking The New York Times to undermine the president? Which, by the way, what do you think people care about the most? Why do you think the Republicans have an advantage? Because they're unified.' Hunter remains convinced that his father should not have dropped out of the race. He admits the debate was a disaster, but chalks it up to the time his dad had spent on a plane prior and an Ambien he was given in order to sleep. He says 'my dad grew old in front of everyone's eyes,' and that Americans need to reconsider 'how we handle people who age in front of our eyes,' while insisting he was politically viable because of the 81 million votes he received in 2020. At the time Biden dropped out, Gallup polling showed his job approval rating at an anemic 36 percent, the lowest of his presidency, and aides working on the campaign were consistently fretting about their chances to the press. One reportedly insisted, 'no one involved in the effort thinks he has a path [to victory].' Hunter, however, contends his dad had 'cleared every hurdle they set up for him.' On the post-debate Democratic collective freakout, Hunter says, 'He goes and does [ABC News' This Week with George] Stephanopoulos. Everyone says, 'that's not enough. We've got to see him give a press conference.' For what? You remember that, it was about a two-hour long press conference, and he gave a tour de force, around the world history lesson about the existence of NATO, Russian aggression and Ukraine.' President Biden became vulnerable again, according to Hunter's telling, after he got COVID, which was when he said the Democratic Party elite vultures descended and insisted they'd destroy the party if he didn't drop out. Notably, Hunter doesn't blame Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he calls very loyal. At another point, he insists she's still the future of the party. In whole, the interview is a view of history that is simply inconsistent with the facts. Biden was in position to suffer a historic loss, according to publicly available polling that kept getting worse. And Hunter Biden's account is full of contradictions — according to him, Americans need to learn to deal with a president who's getting old and who's undone by an Ambien, yet that same president also gave a 'tour de force' press conference and never should have dropped out. Most remarkable is the way in Hunter's mind, his dad is a victim. As he notes multiple times with pride, Biden was a leader in the Democratic Party for over half a century. He was a senator for decades, vice president for eight years and president for four. He had better relationships with congressional leaders than President Obama. But at the same time, somehow he's free of all responsibility for the party's current unpopularity. Instead, it is the fault of Democratic elites, which somehow does not include Joe Biden himself. The majority of the younger Biden's interview with Callaghan is consumed by questions of addiction and a lack of humanity in our politics. When he's speaking on those topics, he can be erudite and remind viewers of our collective fragility. His situation — much of the worst of his life exposed to a media and public hungry to devour it — is an unfortunate and ugly outgrowth of modern American culture (it's also won him a legion of fans). And he's able to directly diagnose a big problem for Democrats, a widespread perception that they are increasingly the party of only the elite. He's engaging insofar as he is willing to be impolite and unhinged in a political milieu dominated by evasion and artifice. He's likely channeling the true feelings of his family. But his beliefs also involve constantly shifting blame — to Rudy Giuliani, Tapper, Clooney, Pod Save America or whoever else is closest at hand. That makes his recent media tour seem at times like a public temper tantrum, a chance to excuse himself and his dad and lash out indiscriminately at everyone else. At the end of the interview, Callaghan, the documentarian, tells Biden about another project he's working on, involving interviewing adults who dress up and act like babies, wearing diapers, playing with childhood toys and sucking on pacifiers or their thumbs. It's a very funny and strange concept to Biden, who laughs heartily for the first time across the three hours. He concedes he knows the feeling. 'Some days I identify as a baby,' he tells Callaghan, laughing. He might have even more in common with this American subculture than he's ready to admit. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@ Or contact tonight's author at cmchugh@ or on X (formerly know as Twitter) at @calder_mchugh. What'd I Miss? — Epstein crisis forces Republicans to shut down House early: House GOP leaders are canceling Thursday votes and sending members home early for a month-long recess as the Jeffrey Epstein crisis deepens on Capitol Hill. The decision to move up summer recess came after Republicans lost control of the floor over bipartisan pressure to vote on releasing Epstein-related documents. House committees will keep working through the week, but there will be no further floor votes after Wednesday. — Deflecting Epstein questions, Trump urges DOJ to 'go after' Obama: President Donald Trump on Tuesday attempted to shift the public's focus away from the building crisis around the release of sealed documents detailing the Jeffrey Epstein case by urging his Justice Department to go after his predecessors. 'Whether it's right or wrong, it's time to go after people,' Trump said, accusing former President Barack Obama of 'treason.' As he took questions alongside Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos in the Oval Office, Trump dismissed the furor over the disgraced former financier, driven largely by Republican lawmakers and his own supporters, as 'a witch hunt,' claiming he 'didn't know' about the Justice Department's decision to seek a new interview with Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence for sex trafficking minors and other crimes. — China behind vast global hack involving multiple US agencies: Three China-linked hacking groups are among those responsible for a sweeping cyberattack against users of popular Microsoft server software that has already impacted dozens of organizations across the globe. Federal investigators believe multiple U.S. government agencies are among the early victims of the ongoing cyber exploitation campaign, though the full scope is not yet clear, according to two U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. Microsoft confirmed in a blog post today that three Chinese hacking gangs — known as Violet Typhoon, Linen Typhoon and Storm-2603 — are involved in the hacking effort. At least two U.S. federal agencies are among the roughly 100 suspected victims of the hacks thus far, said one U.S. official directly involved in the incident response and a second who has been briefed on it. — Trump books draw lackluster sales: President Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning — for now, it appears they are getting tired of reading about him. Trump's first term saw books authored by prominent journalists sell hundreds of thousands of copies each as the public rushed to learn the inside details of Trump's norm-shattering presidency. But similar books aren't exactly flying off the shelves in his second term, and the bar to getting onto the coveted New York Times bestseller list has been lowered as the overall nonfiction book market has dipped. — Judges oust Trump ally Alina Habba as New Jersey's top prosecutor: Federal judges declined to keep President Donald Trump's former personal attorney as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, exercising an arcane statute to rebuff the Trump administration's wishes. New Jersey district court judges voted to not let interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba stay on the job after her 120-day interim term expires, instead picking prosecutor Desiree Leigh Grace, according to a court order posted to the judiciary's website. Habba, who served as counselor to the president and as Trump's personal attorney, was Trump's pick to be New Jersey's top federal prosecutor — a position she assumed in March on an interim basis. The decision to pass on Habba at the 120-day deadline of her tenure sets up a potential showdown between the judiciary and the White House, since the Trump administration lobbied judges to give Habba the permanent slot. AROUND THE WORLD NO MORE RANSOM PAYMENTS — Hospitals, local councils and operators of critical U.K. infrastructure are among the organizations that will be banned from paying ransoms to hackers under new plans unveiled by the British government. The move — which will cover all public sector bodies as well as the owners and operators of critical national infrastructure — comes after years of escalating cyber attacks on parts of the British state. Many of these attacks on British institutions and infrastructure can be traced back to Russia-aligned hacking groups that are now the subject of sanctions. Estimates from Chainalysis, a blockchain data and analytics company, suggest ransomware payments globally generated $1 billion from victims in 2023 alone. 'UNBEARABLE' IMAGES — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reiterated EU calls for Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, as health workers warned Palestinians were facing 'forced starvation.' 'The images from Gaza are unbearable,' von der Leyen said. 'Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long. It must stop now.' In 24 hours, 15 people — including four children — died of starvation, Gaza's health ministry said Tuesday morning. The latest deaths bring the total figures, according to local hospitals, to 101 people in Gaza, including 80 children, who have died from hunger since the start of the war. Nightly Number RADAR SWEEP PLASTIC-FREE DINING — Shia, a Korean fine dining spot in Washington, D.C., is saying no to plastic. As the restaurant industry looks to become more sustainable, the restaurant replaced cling wrap with reusable muslin cloths and ditched squeeze bottles used for plate design for metal barista pitches. Owner Edward Lee is partnering with OpenTable to research and share what they have learned about the costs and benefits of the higher costs of going plastic-free on restaurants and customers. Will it work beyond small, upscale restaurants like Lee's? Ana Campoy reports for Bloomberg. Parting Image Jacqueline Munis contributed to this newsletter. Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here.
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18 hours ago
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Biden's son hits out at George Clooney for ‘undermining' his father
Former president Joe Biden's son Hunter has hit out at actor and Democratic Party donor George Clooney's decision to call on the elder Biden to abandon his 2024 re-election bid. In a rare online interview, Hunter Biden used a string of expletives to describe Clooney when discussing the actor with Andrew Gallagher on YouTube. Clooney supported Democrat Joe Biden's bid for a second term and even headlined a record-setting fundraiser for the then-president. But the actor changed his stance after Mr Biden turned in a disastrous debate performance against Republican Donald Trump in June 2024 and added his voice to mounting calls for the then-81-year-old president to leave the race. Clooney made his feelings known in an opinion piece in The New York Times. Mr Biden ended up leaving the race a few weeks later and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris. She lost to Mr Trump. In the lengthy and wide-ranging interview, Hunter Biden questioned why anyone should listen to Clooney and said the Ocean's Eleven actor had no right to 'undermine' his father. 'What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his f****** life to the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f****** New York Times to undermine the president,' Hunter Biden said before he trailed off to talk about how Republicans are more unified than Democrats. Joe Biden served 36 years in the US Senate and eight years as Barack Obama's vice president before he was elected president in 2020. Los Angeles-based representatives for Clooney did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on Tuesday.
