‘F**k him': Hunter Biden unleashes on George Clooney in obscenity-heavy tirade
The interview was conducted on the YouTube journalism platform 'Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan'.
Biden laid into actor George Clooney with an expletive-filled rant, belittling the actor's career, labelling him a brand.
During the interview, Hunter claimed his father was on the sedative Ambien during his infamous debate with Trump.
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Sky News AU
14 hours ago
- Sky News AU
Meet CJ Pearson, the MAGA power player and influencer who shifted the youth vote to Trump by making the Republican party cool again
CJ Pearson is a 22-year-old Republican power player – a viral firebrand on TIME's list of most influential online creators – and he is on a mission to challenge the left and rally a new generation of conservatives to the frontlines of America's culture wars. Social media sensation CJ Pearson is a self-described free speech absolutist. The 22-year-old conservative has transitioned from a 'Bernie bro' to a cardholding MAGA Republican and he has backed President Donald Trump every step of the way since he burst onto the political scene in 2016. Pearson, now the national co-chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council, received a letter from the leader of the free world thanking him for being a social media warrior who helped sweep the MAGA movement to victory at November's historic win. He keeps the framed letter on his mantlepiece. Earlier this month he landed in TIME's list of the most influential online creators. But his rise to prominence has been a long time in the making. He's been fighting on the frontlines of the conservative movement since he was 12 years old. Pearson has raised a tonne of money for black-owned businesses that were razed in the George Floyd riots of 2020, contributed to conservative media nonprofit PragerU for two years, has racked up millions of views of his own viral videos supporting Trump's America First agenda, and most recently took on the left-wing New York Magazine for slander. Pearson says his conservatism began in elementary school, when he participated in a mock election in the second grade to figure out who should be the next president of the United States – Barack Obama or John McCain. 'I remember reading every single thing I could get my hands on and watching so many YouTube videos from progressives, from conservatives, all these things. And what I realised was that the values that my grandparents had given me since I was a little boy, you know, the value of hard work, the importance of loving your country, working hard, playing by the rules, all those things, they were conservative values,' Pearson told in an exclusive interview. 'At that point, I was like, I'm a conservative. That's what I am.' From viral teen to political trend-maker Pearson is now one of the most influential online creators in the world, but he was getting millions of views on his videos before the word 'influencer' entered the lexicon. 'I just kind of went after Obama after he had made that iconic statement that ISIS was the JV (junior varsity) team and he was really big on redistributing wealth and all of these things. And I thought they were preposterous ideas even at 12 years old,' he said. 'And so I made a YouTube video, turned the camcorder on, which I had gotten for Christmas. It was probably the most regretful gift my parents had ever gotten me. I'm sure they wish they still had the receipt for that thing, but I uploaded the video and it got two million views overnight and I was on Fox News by the end of the week. 'The funny story about that is that I actually didn't tell my grandparents that I was going on Fox News, but they always loved to hate-watch Sean Hannity, so they'd always have him playing in the background. And so this particular night, you know, Sean Hannity goes, he says, 'up next, we're going to hear from a 12 year old boy from Augusta, Georgia, who has some words for president Barack Obama. Of course, I was the 12-year-old boy.' Tonight, CJ Pearson joins The Rita Panahi Show on Sky News Australia. Sky News is now available to watch online with a Streaming Subscription, or you can catch up on Rita Panahi's clips on YouTube. Pearson has 'always been an anti-establishment guy' and initially backed Senator Bernie Sanders at a 'super young age', attributing his support to wanting to make his Democrat parents proud. 'We would argue often about politics, about the videos I was making and the articles that I was putting out and I think that I just wanted to take the easy way out. When I did that, when I announced I was supporting Bernie Sanders, I think they were probably a little proud of that,' he said. 'But I also felt as if I was betraying one of the most important lessons they had taught me growing up – to always be true to myself. 'And so, quickly thereafter, it was a no-brainer for me to support President Trump. He was still the anti-establishment guy. He was a guy who realised the moment that we were in as a country, we didn't need political correctness. We needed brashness, directness, and someone who wasn't afraid to be a little bit of a bull in a China shop.' Trump's MAGA movement showed people not just how to 'fight the leftward drift', but how to win by making conservatism relatable and approachable and 'cool for the first time'. 'This is a man who understands culture like no other person. He understands that if you can win the culture war, the political wins will quickly follow,' Pearson said. 'Mitt Romney was impossible to make cool. John McCain was impossible. We are in a moment, unlike any other, that we may not ever have again – that we have someone as the face of our movement who is so undoubtedly cool.' Pearson said the distrust in corporate media was not just an American phenomenon but a global one. He said Trump's appearances on Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Andrew Schultz's shows highlighted the President's understanding of new media and how best to reach a younger audience. 'Oftentimes people who are very passionate about certain things just need an extra push to actually go out and vote,' he said. 'I've always been so amazed at just how relatable he is. This is the leader of the free world who carries the nuclear football and has achieved a crazy amount of success but he's just the most down-to-earth person you could really meet'. Black conservatism in the social media age Pearson said there was an emergence of young black conservatives who were embracing the Republican Party and voting on the 'actual feelings' that had always existed in their community, while older black people leaned Democrat as they were 'told that was the only way for them to vote'. 'I think identity politics will always be around, but I think identity-first politics is on the way out,' Pearson said. 'When you look at the emergence of black conservatives at the forefront of the movement now, these aren't people who are black first, they're Americans first. 'In the black community, for better or for worse, rappers have a lot of cultural capital. So, when they see folks like Kodak Black wearing a MAGA hat, when they folks like Soulja Boy doing it, Waka Flocka doing it and many of these other rappers that have come out and supported the president, it actually does move the needle.' When people ask him if such cultural wins actually matter, Pearson says he points them to the scoreboard: November 5. 'I think the Democrats are super worried about losing their grip on black voters, it's why they're importing illegal immigrants into this country because they know they're running out of black folks to manipulate,' he said. 'People are waking up and that is keeping them up at night and there's nothing that brings me more joy.' Pearson said for a long time the older generation were 'comfortable' with being the silent majority. 'We saw what happened when we became okay with that. The left use it as a permission slip to enact their agenda, push us out the way and treat us like second class citizens in our own country,' he said. 'My entire argument is now, no, I'm not going to hide the fact that I'm a Trump supporter. I am in fact, indeed the majority. 'We didn't just win the electoral college in November last year. We won the popular vote.' TikTok and the MAGA makeover The 2024 presidential election was a pivotal moment in how Americans engage in politics. Trump swept all seven swing states. More than half of men under 30 supported him, according to AP VoteCast, and the battle was fought and won on the internet. Pearson's personal thank-you note from Trump proves his impact on the considerable inroads for the MAGA movement on social media, particularly on the short form video platform TikTok where he sparked debate on a range of issues including racism, white supremacy (which he rejects as a leftist exaggeration) and illegal immigration. It was the first election that the MAGA movement took on the left at their own game, and they won. Pearson said he loved seeing the 'Dylan Mulvaney's of the world' react when he pointed out the biological differences between men and women, whether it was on X or TikTok. 'Yeah, we do a little bit of trolling and we have a tonne of fun doing it, but I do it to remind them of the fact that they don't run this country anymore,' he said. 'You know, for a long time, they relegated us to the shadows of history, try to put us in the dustbin of history … simply because of the conservative values we held. 'But now we control all three branches of government and we're rapidly expanding our cultural footprint in a way which they never could have predicted and worked for decades to prevent.' Pearson has embraced the mischievous nature of being a modern conservative in the MAGA movement because for a long time it was prohibited. 'We weren't allowed to say any of these things, or we would get banned from the internet, or your livelihood would be at risk,' he said. Pearson said his approach to countering the left's accusation conservatives were 'boring' and 'just terrible', was to throw parties and show that the movement was full of 'fun, happy people'. 'People come to these events and they see the aesthetics that come out of it, the photos, the imagery, all these things and are like, 'wait, I want to be there … I was told Republicans are all evil and ugly and scary and terrible, terrible people, why do I wanna be at that party?'' he said. 'It kind of makes them question these preconceived notions that I think that a lot of them may have just unfortunately and unwillingly been indoctrinated either by their professors or the media or social media.' Pearson said he found that after educating people on the left, particularly young men, they would discover they did not support the agenda they were signing up for. 'I really cannot understand how anyone can be male in this country and support the left,' he said. 'These people hate you. They don't want you to flirt with women. They don't want you to be a leader. They don't want you to be a protector. They don't want you to be any of these things. They want to literally neuter you and make you a shell of yourself.' The Cruel Kids' Table Pearson and a group of other young influencers celebrated Trump's victory at an inauguration party in Washington, DC. New York Magazine covered the event with a front-page story headlined 'The Cruel Kids' Table'. The feature image was a show of the crowd. But Pearson, along with other black conservative attendees, were cropped out. — CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) January 27, 2025 In the accompanying article, written by Brock Coylar, a non-binary gender and sexuality studies major from Tennessee, the aesthetics of the election party is described as being racially skewed. Coylar writes: 'Almost everyone is white. The men look like Pete Hegseth, in bow ties and black suits, with clean-shaven faces. The women are almost all out of their league.' Pearson hit back the day after it was published by sharing the unedited images including the black attendees online. He has sent a formal notice to the outlet and is considering all of the options available, including legal avenues. 'You know, it's a little bit more complicated being a public figure here in the states to sue for defamation because the standard for defamation is higher than it is for a private citizen. But the great thing about, you know, how sloppy they were is that on the cover of that magazine, many of those people are private citizens,' he said. Pearson said one of the girls on the cover of the magazine was worried about her prospects of attending law school and thought the picture of her would 'ruin her life'. 'Thankfully that didn't happen because people quickly called bulls**t on their narrative,' Pearson said. 'The left and the corporate media just view Trump supporters with such disdain that us having a good time should not be allowed. And so they ran with the narrative that they did.' 'I read one article about the party and they said, 'it's kind of crazy how pretty all the girls were there,' and I'm like, that's actually a really important detail because if you actually go to a leftist party, what do you see? You see women with penises and purple hair and hairy armpits. 'And you come to a conservative party, you come to a 'cruel kids party', what do actually see? Women who are actually women, thank God - so no apologies for that.' Pearson said the left had become 'mad at the world' because their radicalism had 'fallen out of favour' as more and more people rejected cancel culture, the obituary of which was written on November 5. 'When New York Magazine accused me of trying to create some movement of vying for dominance it's not an allegation, that is exactly what we're doing and we should be doing that and I wear it as a badge of honour,' he said. 'I don't throw receptions, I throw parties. The reason I throw a party is because I think that oftentimes the media wants to portray those on the right as sticks in the mud, self-righteous, people who are intolerable to be around, but really honestly, that is what they are.' Pearson said if you went to one of his events you did not have to 'walk on eggshells' or be afraid of making a joke or flirting with a girl out of fear of being 'cancelled and thrown out and your life ruined'. 'These are people who are fun to be around, who also share your values, share your passion for this country but are also eager to be a part and build community to reaffirm the values that we are all fighting so hard to advance,' he said. Aspirations beyond activism At the age of 13, Pearson, became the 'youngest black legislator in America' having promoted a constitutional amendment to lower the age restriction for assuming public office (to age 18 in the House and 21 in the Senate). In 2022, Pearson was the campaign manager for Vernon Jones during his Georgia gubernatorial campaign. And last year, in January 2024, Pearson put himself forward as a candidate in a special election for Georgia's House of Representatives in the 125th district but was ultimately defeated. A few months later he withdrew his candidacy ahead of a regular election. In February he signed with United Talent Agency, following his stint with PragerU, as part of its bid to bolster its roster of DC figures. 'I'm open to service in any way that I can. This country has given so much to me, and if I have the opportunity to give back to it one day, then I definitely want to do that. The average age of Congress, I think, is 58 years old, and I think it could probably be a good thing if it took a little bit of a dive,' he said. 'If young people don't fight for this country, who the hell will?' Pearson is committed to supporting Trump's America First agenda in whatever way he can but if there was ever an opportunity to run and serve that 'makes sense' he was 'definitely open to it'. Asked if he had a key pledge he would take on the road, Pearson said he would ensure young people had faith in the future by fighting for it as though they would lose it. 'I want to fight for my generation as I have been since I was 12 years old, it's the fight that I've never lost passion for, I kind of only get more passionate about it as the years go by because I think these issues are so fundamentally important,' he said. 'This is the greatest nation in the world. My grandfather served 20 years in the military. And he didn't do that for nothing ... That's why I'm so hell-bent that we've got to do all that we can to right this ship.' CJ's vision of the future of the GOP Pearson spearheads the growing movement of young Americans adopting conservatism as a response to the politically correct, woke mind virus which has permeated politics and culture in the last few decades and came to a climax during the Biden administration. In his own words, Pearson declared the 'only pro-American party' was Trump's Republican Party which upheld Christian values and unashamedly put America First. Pearson said his vision of the future of conservatism was 'young and vibrant'. 'I think the future of conservatism is going to be one of fighters. I think gone are the days of Mitt Romney and George Bush and all these people who don't know how to actually fight and win,' he said. 'We have incredible folks like Riley Gaines on our side. We have incredible people who are doing such great things and who have been at the forefront of many important cultural wins. 'It's going to be diverse not in the way the left uses the term but in a way of people just kind of realising that because of the colour of their skin and their gender like that shouldn't dictate their political beliefs 'I couldn't be more hopeful. MAGA isn't just here, but we're here to stay.' CJ Pearson joins Rita Panahi tonight on Sky News Australia. Watch online with a Streaming Subscription, or catch up with Rita Panahi's interviews on YouTube.
7NEWS
17 hours ago
- 7NEWS
Biden's son says Clooney undermined father in election
Former US president Joe Biden's son Hunter has criticised actor and Democratic Party donor George Clooney's 2024 decision to call on the elder Biden to abandon his re-election bid. In a three-hour online interview, Hunter Biden used a string of expletives to describe Clooney when discussing the actor with Andrew Gallagher of Channel 5. 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 Biden turned in a lacklustre 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. Biden ended up leaving the race a few weeks later and endorsed his vice president Kamala Harris, who later lost to Trump. In the wide-ranging interview, Hunter Biden questioned why anyone should listen to Clooney and said the Ocean's Eleve 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***ing 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***ing 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. Referring to Joe Biden's debate performance, 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 the elder Biden made him feel the president was not mentally capable. '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,' Hunter Biden said. 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. Anita Dunn, a longtime Biden senior adviser, has made '$US40 to $US50 million ($A61 million to $A77 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***king 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 the Pod Save America podcast are 'four white millionaires that are dining out on their association with Barack Obama from 16 years ago,' he said.
Perth Now
17 hours ago
- Perth Now
Internet star Trisha Paytas names newborn after superhero
Internet personality Trisha Paytas has revealed that she and husband Moses Hacmon have named their newborn son Aquaman. The coupe's third child— whose full name is Aquaman Moses Paytas-Hacmon — follows the arrivals of girls Malibu Barbie, 2, and Elvis, 10 months. Sharing images from her son's birth to Instagram, which took place on July 12, the YouTube star beamed as she and Moses cradled the newborn who matched in aqua-themed garb. Other photos depicted the couple's older children becoming familiar with their newest sibling. '💙AQUAMAN MOSES PAYTAS-HACMON💙 Born 07.12.25 @ 12:40 am 🙏,' Paytas captioned the post. The YouTube star had previously explained on her Just Trish podcast the inspiration behind Aquaman, suggesting they needed a 'movie poster' name to match those of Elvis and Barbie. Paytas also noted the baby's star sign of Cancer is a water sign, and that she's had an affection for Aquaman, played in film by Jason Momoa, for several years. The internet star has been flooded with well-wishes as fans revelled in the superhero connection. Jason Momoa as Aquaman. Credit: Aquaman Movie/IG / IG 'Yayayyyyy welcome to the world baby Aquaman!!!' one person commented. 'The Birthday parties are about to be off the unCHARTed waters 💦😍,' another said. Corners of the internet have noted the bizarre trend of Paytas' newborns being oddly timed with celebrity deaths, with some conspiracists believing her kids are the reincarnations of fallen stars. 'Ozzy, that you?' one fan posited, in reference to the Tuesday death of iconic Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osborne. In 2022, Paytas had advised followers she'd gone into labour with Malibu shortly before the Royal Palace had announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II. While the timing didn't quite align with her second child's birth, some sleuths drew a long bow when connecting the April 2025 death of Pope Francis with Paytas' May 2024 birth of Elvis. 'Is it just like any influential person that dies gets to come reincarnate as my baby?' she said on her Just Trish podcast at the time. 'I don't understand why my womb is carrying all these souls.' Despite sharing her baby photos ostensibly in coordination with the death of Osborne, the 37-year-old confirmed Aquaman's birth took place weeks earlier. Trisha Paytas with her three chidlren. Credit: Tirsha Paytas/IG / IG 'He came early,' Trisha told fans on her recent podcast. 'The original due date was July 29. Our scheduled c-section was July 18.' She continued to reveal the chaos of the 'traumatising' premature birth, saying she was forced to wait for three other c-sections to be completed at the hospital before she could be seen. 'I actually thought I was going to die—I was like, 'I don't know if I can handle this,' Paytas recalled. However, once delivery began, the YouTuber said she was introduced to her son in just 10 minutes.
