George Clooney, the Oscar-winning actor who once dismissed Donald Trump’s chances at the presidency, now finds himself under fire from his own party’s supporters after Kamala Harris’ disappointing 2024 election defeat, as reported by Daily Fetched.
Clooney’s vocal support for alternatives to President Joe Biden, especially in a critical op-ed published in The New York Times, has stirred up a hornet’s nest among liberals, who are now pointing fingers his way for the recent loss.
At 63, Clooney has been a dedicated advocate for the Democratic Party, contributing both time and money. In fact, he helped raise a staggering $30 million for Biden’s re-election campaign, only to openly question Biden’s viability shortly after.
His call for new Democratic leadership just months before the election is now being widely blamed for sparking doubts within the party. An insider close to Clooney revealed, “George feels that the backlash he is getting for Kamala losing is not at all warranted. He thinks it’s completely unfair to try and make him a scapegoat for her loss.”
🚨🇺🇸GEORGE CLOONEY: F*CK POLITICS – I'M OUT
Clooney is reportedly stepping away from politics after feeling like the “scapegoat” for Kamala's loss to Trump.
Clooney, who initially raised a whopping $30 million for Biden, later penned a fiery op-ed urging the president to step… pic.twitter.com/wiPCljp0yZ
Clooney’s recent struggles with the party have left him contemplating a step back from political involvement. According to the same source, he’s feeling “very disheartened,” particularly after investing so heavily in the party’s goals and witnessing the swift backlash after the election.
Speculation around Clooney’s op-ed further heightened when rumors suggested that former President Barack Obama might have ghostwritten or heavily influenced his words.
While Politico noted that Obama didn’t explicitly encourage Clooney to speak out, he reportedly did nothing to stop it, creating an air of suspicion around their partnership. But whether or not Obama was involved, the larger story is clear: Hollywood’s political clout is rapidly fading.
This incident has forced a spotlight on the effectiveness of celebrity endorsements. Even paying high-profile figures like Oprah Winfrey millions to endorse candidates seems increasingly futile when core policy issues—such as gun rights, free speech, and economic concerns—hold much greater sway over voters.
As Clooney prepares to pull back from his once-enthusiastic political role, he faces the reality that Hollywood’s sway over politics may not be as powerful as it once was.
Despite the millions spent and the famous faces brought forward, the loss of Harris in the 2024 race seems to have spotlighted a deeper disconnect between the entertainment industry’s values and the everyday concerns of American voters.
The Michigan Supreme Court expanded its liberal majority in 2024, with the help of massive cash infusions from billionaires including George Soros, dark money groups, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Dark money groups not required to disclose donors contributed more than $5 million to help elect incumbent Justice Kyra Harris Bolden and law professor Kimberly Ann Thomas to the state’s highest court, an amount that exceeds the total raised by all four candidates for the two seats by more than $1 million, Bridge Michigan reports. The donations included nearly $4.4 million through mid-October from a shady Massachusetts-based nonprofit called The Justice Project Action, the largest donor to Supreme Court candidates this year.
Those donations went to a Justice For All super PAC backing Bolden and Thomas that has spent nearly $10.7 million on Democratic nominees to the high court since 2020. In 2024, $5.25 million out of $7.9 million raised by Justice For All came from dark money groups, which also included the Michigan Civic Action Fund and the Strategic Victory Fund. Other funding included $1 million from former billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and $560,000 from the George Soros funded super PAC State Victory Action, according to Bridge’s review of campaign finance records through mid-October.
Oprah Winfrey‘s production banner, Harpo Productions, has publicly denied that the Kamala Harris campaign paid the billionaire TV host a $1 Million fee despite records from Federal Election Commission filings showing otherwise.
A Harpo spokesperson told Variety, “The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a live-streaming event that took place September 19 outside Detroit, Michigan.”
“Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee, nor did she receive a fee from Harpo,” the spokesperson added.
Oprah was also confronted by a reporter about the payments.
“Not true,” Oprah quipped when confronted by the reporter. “I was paid nothing, ever.”
The Oprah denies receiving $1 million from the Harris campaign to "endorse" Kamala Harris.
Campaign finance records show that her studio, Harpo Productions, was paid $1 million by the Harris campaign.
A recent Washington Examiner article, titled “How Kamala Harris plowed through $1 billion,” cited federal findings showing that Harris’s campaign “paid more than $15 million” to companies for expenses related to “event production.”
FEC records—which we cited—show Oprah's production company Harpo was paid the money pic.twitter.com/1j49nNDRgh
$1 million from those expenses went to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, the outlet reported.
Harpo Productions failed to disclose how much the Harris campaign paid for the production costs related to the a virtual town dubbed “Unite for America” which featured Meryl Streep, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Julia Roberts.
Other celebrity endorsements include:
Megan Thee Stallion: Paid $5 Million
Beyoncé: Paid $10 million
Lizzo: Paid $1 Million
After plowing millions into celebrity endorsements, the Harris campaign was left in $20 million in debt.
Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers are being offered a four-year residential cruise to avoid the next four years under the 47th President.
The Tour La Vie program, offered by Villa Vie Residences, gives rich liberals the chance to visit over 140 countries while avoiding the US so they don’t have to face political reality.
Mikael Petterson, the company’s chief executive officer, said, “We came up with this marketing campaign before we even knew who would win. Regardless of who would have won, you would have half of the population upset.”
“Quite frankly, we don’t have a political view one way or the other. We just wanted to give people who feel threatened to have a way to get out.”
However, escaping Trump doesn’t come cheap.
The Tour La Vie program starts at $40,000 per year, offering four different packages for raging leftists to escape:
“Escape from Reality” for a year
“Mid-term Selection” for two years
“Everywhere but Home” for three years
The full experience to “Skip Forward” at four years
The “Skip Forward” option costs $256,000 for single occupancy or $320,000 for two, according to the company’s website.
Meanwhile, the one-year cruise is significantly cheaper, at $80,000 for singles or $50,000 per person for more.
That first package could be the best option when TDS finally realize Donald Trump is fixing America, not destroying it.
The company has already reported a “huge uptick” in ticket inquiries and expects to sell out
Travelers will still be able to cast their votes while on board for the midterms and presidential election in 2028, with mail sent to the corporate office and then to the ship.
“They didn’t want to talk to one another,” Petterson said.
“They wanted to stay away from one another. At the end of the day everyone there isn’t there to talk politics. They actually have similar lifestyles. There weren’t any sort of issues or anything.”
Petterson said the cruise attracts “distinct groups” from retirees to semi-retired and digital nomads.
“It’s really cool how the community, old and young are coming together,” Petterson said.
“I think the world cruising market is growing and growing and having the ability to completely disconnect from the world and still be connected with our internet and Wi-Fi and invite your friends on board,” Petterson said.
“It really helps your ability to really live this lifestyle and still stay connected with your friends and family.”
A second Trump term with thousands of raging TDS sufferers fleeing the country sounds good to me.
Despite an overwhelming wave of support from Latino voters and major concerns over illegal immigration, CNN commentator Maria Cardona insisted they’ll regret their support for President-elect Donald Trump.
The Republican secured major gains across the Latino and Hispanic community, and won a majority of the Hispanic male vote. Former Democrat strongholds such as Miami-Dade voted in favor of Trump, breaking decades of precedent.
Trump’s performance among such a crucial demographic prompted debate between Spanish speakers Cardona and Giancarlo Sopo – Trump’s campaign director for Spanish Language Media in 2020. The latter cited immigration as a key issue for Hispanic voters.
“Immigration was cited as one of the top 5 issues for Hispanics for voting against Kamala Harris. So I think it’s very clear, no matter which polls you look at, favor a very strong border policy because it’s just common sense,” Sopo said. “And we simply cannot have millions of people rolling around this country most of whom have not been vetted, many of them have criminal backgrounds, and I agree most of them just come here because they want to work and they want to have a better life, but we don’t know that because we don’t know who these people are. So, I actually do not anticipate any kind of major backlash to any kind of border enforcement.”
Cardona was less convinced, and insisted the former Trump staff knew “so much better than what [she was] spouting right now.”
“Our community is going to go through pain, our community is going to go through cruelty, that is not what anyone voted for,” the CNN broadcaster retorted. “And in fact, I will tell the American electorate, if the incoming Trump administration goes through this, here’s the people they’re gonna go after. They’re gonna go after your kids’ classmates, they’re gonna go after the delivery guy, they’re gonna go after the guy who take care of your kids, they’re gonna go after the people who work in restaurants, they’re gonna go after the business owners in your community.”
Watch the full exchange:
WATCH: @GiancarloSopo TRIGGERS Maria Cardona on CNN in debate over mass deportations. Cardona says Trump will go after your local “delivery guy,” the people who serve as nannies for America’s children, restaurant workers, and people who “pick fruits and vegetables”!
Many on social media sided with Sopa in response to the clip.
He handled her histrionics nicely. Calm rational responses is the best tactics when they go on their rants. People have grown weary of their emotional blackmail and it's creating a backlash.
Comments like Cardinas are so displaced from reality. I work in the construction field and can tell you that while most of the workers and tradesmen are immigrants, what they're worried about vis a vis illegal immigration is undocumented workers taking their jobs.
She is correct. Those big corporations in the service industry and construction are going to march right up to those governors offices and get meetings with the president to slow this process down or don’t do it at all.
Left-wing meltdown program “The View” was predictably terrified by Donald Trump’s appointment of Tom Homan as the new border czar.
The daily ABC show has struggled to cope since Trump was elected last Tuesday, and his appointment of Homan to protect the nation’s borders went down like a lead balloon with the leftist hosts.
Ana Navarro took particular offence to a clip where Homan said families “can be deported together” when he was asked about illegal alien families being “separated.” She hysterically interpreted this to mean that U.S Citizens would be deported, despite Homan making no reference to such a policy – and the fact that deporting U.S. citizens is illegal.
“What he is saying is, if the parent is undocumented and they have U.S. Citizen children or U.S. Citizen spouses, and you don’t want to separate them, then let’s deport the U.S. Citizens,” Navarro said.
It’s needless to say that Homan was quick to respond when questioned about the comments later that day on Fox News.
“No, exactly not,” Homan laughed when asked on whether he planned to deport American citizens. “Look, ‘The View’ is like an island of misfit toys. They don’t know what the Hell they’re talking about.”
“President Trump has made it clear we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats first,” Homan continued. “If you’re in the country illegally, you shouldn’t feel comfortable, absolutely not. I won’t feel comfortable if I’m in the country illegally. If I’m in some other country illegally, I’m not going to be comfortable.”
NEW: Border Czar Tom Homan roasts ‘The View’ calling them “an island of misfit toys” after Ana Navarro falsely claims President-elect Trump will deport Americans.
Hannity: “Are you planning on deporting American citizens?”
Newly obtained documents show that Dr. Anthony Fauci received $15 million in taxpayer-funded security after his retirement, according to a report by independent journalist Jordan Schachtel and Open The Books.
The arrangement, detailed in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provided security for Fauci from January 4, 2023, to September 20, 2024.
The protection included a security detail and chauffeur.
The U.S. Marshals Service, which operates under the Department of Justice, confirmed to the Daily Caller that they provided protective services to Fauci from January 2023 to August 2024, one month less than indicated by Schachtel’s report.
The $15 million security arrangement did not include the costs of Fauci’s previous protection, which began in April 2020 and continued through December 2022.
According to the MOU, the $15 million covered transportation, law enforcement equipment, and the salaries and benefits of Fauci’s security team. The agreement also included the option to renew or extend the contract in the future if deemed necessary.
The report highlights the unique nature of this extended security arrangement, noting that it could not find other examples of a former federal employee receiving protection at this level.
Fauci, who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) until his retirement in December 2022, was among the highest-paid federal employees, with a salary surpassing that of then-President Donald Trump in 2019.
The allocation of taxpayer funds for post-retirement protection has drawn comparisons to similar arrangements for former public officials.
Former presidents receive Secret Service protection for life, per federal law, and some high-level officials have also received extended security due to potential threats.
For example, two former national security advisers in the Trump administration were provided with taxpayer-funded security after leaving office due to threats from Iran, at a cost exceeding $12 million, according to a 60 Minutes report from CBS News.
Separately, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his campaign, reportedly lost his Secret Service detail.
The Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed that Kennedy was initially denied Secret Service protection multiple times and only received protection after an attempted assassination of President-elect Trump in July.
The report on Fauci’s security funding has reignited scrutiny of his time as head of NIAID.
Fauci’s agency previously faced criticism after the White Coat Waste Project revealed that it funded controversial animal testing, including experiments on beagles.
The Daily Caller reported in August that the Biden administration was aware of NIAID’s alleged attempts to cover up these experiments.
This latest revelation about Fauci’s security funding adds to the growing discourse on how taxpayer dollars are allocated for security measures post-retirement, particularly for high-profile figures in government service.
I agree!
I told Dr. Fauci to his face that he should be in jail and prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
General Michael Flynn urged caution ahead of Donald Trump‘s Inauguration on January 20, warning the President-Elect’s inner circle to expect another assassination attempt.
During a long discussion with Steve Bannon, Flynn reminded Americans that if Trump had lost on November 5 he would be in prison.
Not only were the stakes high, the future of America literally depended on Trump’s win.
But the Deep State isn’t going to hand over the keys that easily.
As Flynn warned, Trump’s victory is part of winning the battle, but it is by no means winning the war.
The fact that Democrats are still pushing to make Kamala Harris president before January should set alarm bells off.
While their election fraud failed this time around, that doesn’t mean they don’t have one last trick up their sleeve.
Here is what Flynn said:
“Most people in America have no idea what’s called a HQE or highly qualified experts that are people that are hired. And this administration is going to hire a bunch of people just like Obama did, stick them into key slots, and they’re going to block and tackle every single day. Those people have to be eliminated. I mean, taken out at the knees, dismissed, take their clearances away, take their badges away, and tell them, Thank you for your service. You’re done. And that has to happen literally on the Friday of Trump taking over. Never mind just starting the deportation campaign. It’s going to take some time to get through all that. That’s not going to happen over a three-day weekend…”
“…Steve, We’ve seen this movie. You and I have been part of it. We’ve been victims of it, and we do not have to go through these scenes again. We can eliminate a lot of this nonsense by being prepared for what we know the enemy is going to do. Right now, talking to you, I do use that word enemy precisely because had Trump lost last night, he’d be in prison. He’d be in prison on November 26. His family would be destroyed. His business enterprise would be destroyed. Guys like Elon Musk would be destroyed. They’d come after you.”
“They’d come back after me because I know they already are. So these are all things that we can’t sit here and pretend like, well, we’re going to be the nice people. We will be effective with the use of the rule of law. We’ll do it properly, but it must, accountability must happen. I’m telling you, Steve, I’m looking at the world of social media, and this is my world. Information and intelligence is my world.”
“I have a lot of people that I’m still in contact with in the government, outside the government, overseas, and people want to see Trump succeed. They want to make sure that he has the right team of people around him, and they definitely want people to be held accountable. Comey comes out recently, I think today, and he starts talking about what Trump is going to do to the DOJ and the FBI.”
“You’re damn right, Jim Comey! You committed crimes against this country. You committed treason as far as I’m concerned. I mean, never mind cutting my legs out. Guys like him did so much damage to our country, never mind Obama and some of the others. That’s why at the end of that tweet there, that I say, Sorry, not this time, Obama. Fool us once, shame on us.”
“Try to fool us again, shame on you. And you can tell from the tone of Obama in the last couple of days and what he is saying, these people are up to no good. I want to remind people, and I’ll say it again. I hate repeating myself on this, but I’m going to say it. Had Trump lost, it would have been Katie bar the door. They would have been salivating to throw a bunch of us in jail or worse. We have got to get there.”
“If we had lost yesterday, they already had that 168-page report was a superseding indictment. Jack Smith was going to walk in a court and file against a bunch of people and file more charges against President Trump and take two or three years to get a rigged jury here in DC and send President Trump to a federal prison for 20 years. It’s obvious.”
“Now, today, Jack Smith is talking about unwinding his office. Hey, Jack, unwind all you want. We’re coming after you. I want to go the angle of attack, the The angle of attack, you think, is it the CIA, is it FBI, is it the legal? You got to start with some motive force first. Where do you go? I’ll tell you, and this is my fun I think that the person behind this is the tactical commander of all this is John Brennan. I really believe that. Yes, 100%. There are people inside that are really good.”
“We have We have decent people, but I think John Brennan is one of the most evil people on the planet. And that man, he’s the tactical commander. Obama is still in the play, and there’s some of these globalist characters. But what we’re facing, Number one, Trump needs to be very, very certain of the security around him. So this is not like, I’ll just depend on my secret service detail. No, you have got to make sure that he feels, and now I’m talking directly to Trump, you have got to feel so confident that there’s always going to be a risk, but that the people around you are going to protect you with their lives. And there’s not going to be any shenanigans with the quality of the people or the numbers of resources that you’re going to need. I don’t care whether it’s aircraft, whether it’s air defense systems, or whether it’s human bodies.”
“That’s number one, because they have already tried it a couple of times. They’ll try it again between now and inauguration. That, to me, is job number one. It’s up to Trump to stay alive. I mean that. I hate to say that in our country, but I’m not making this stuff up. These are already things that have happened Number two, the people that Trump brings around him, these have got to be warriors that are ready to go after the government and really reform. I like this idea about what Elon Musk is talking about and the kinds of things with this government efficiency a task force. I do believe that there are going to be requirements for entire departments like Millei down in Argentina. We have got to get rid of entire departments, like the Department of Education, as an example.”
Watch:
Flynn’s remarks echo that of Conservative commentator Dan Bongino, who warned earlier this month of an “inside threat” within the Secret service.
Bongino said Trump was being targeted by professionals who have likely have infiltrated the Secret Service as part of a broader effort to stop him from returning to the White House by any means necessary.
He noted the word “hunted” was deliberate in order to hammer home the seriousness of the situation.
“I use that word deliberately. Some people will know what I mean if they’re listening, some people who really care,” Bongino said.
“Listen to me. Trump is being hunted by professionals who know exactly what they’re doing, and because I hate teases, is the Secret Service compromised?” Bongino asked.
While everyone is celebrating Trump’s victory, there is still a long way to go until the inauguration. Bongino’s warnings should serve as a reminder not to become too complacent.
Watch:
💥💥💥 Dan Bongino @dbongino says that the whole communications of the Secret Service is likely COMPROMISED‼️ “President Trump Is BEING HUNTED…he’s being HUNTED right now‼️” 👇 💥💥💥 pic.twitter.com/uAiEUm0A7o
Megyn Kelly delivered a fiery message for the liberal celebrity elite following Donald Trump’s historic election win, reminding them that their political opinions do not matter to the average American.
As Kelly pointed out, the American people do not care what Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Jimmy Kimmel, or Mark Hamill think.
From Swift’s cringey Instagram post praising Harris and Walz to Beyonce’s “As a mother, I demand the right to kill children” speech at Harris’ rally, none of that made any difference.
The fact that Trump won in a landslide victory with the entire system against him should remind those celebrities where they should put their opinions in the future.
Megyn Kelly’s hilarious message for celebrities encapsulated this notion.
“One of the big losers? The celeb crowd,” she began.
“We would like to know what happened between you and Ben Affleck, what happened between you and P. Diddy, exactly what you’re doing to your butt, and how you keep your skin so glowy.”
“That will end the list of things we care about,” Kelly said regarding Jennifer Lopez.
But Kelly delivered a more brutal message for Swift
“Taylor Swift, sorry you effed around and found out. You do not have unlimited influence,” she said.
“The young girls love you because you sing songs about men who break up with you, and they can all relate to that.”
“No one gives two s**** about your political opinion, so you should take it and stuff it,” she added, hilariously adding that Swift’s next song should be “Stuff It.”
Kelly also criticized Julia Roberts for narrating a Harris-Walz ad about women secretly voting against their husbands’ political views.
“Maybe don’t be the voice of the ad in which we talk about women betraying their husbands,” Kelly noted.
Dave Rubin, who played the clip of Kelly’s hilarious message, chimed in saying, “Of course she’s right,”
“We’ve had it with the celebrities; we don’t care about these people.”
“You want to talk about your skin regimen or your Botox or whatever, fine, fine. But stop bludgeoning us with your bulls*** because you’ve been to parties with child molesters.”
We modern Westerners have a famously short memory whose span has become even smaller since the internet became a part of most people’s daily lives about 30 years ago. That probably surprised a few people reading (there’s that short memory). Yes, indeed, the internet is blink-of-an-eye-recent.
We forget news stories in about a day, irrespective of how momentous an event may be. Leftist media hatred for Donald Trump and for half the country’s citizenry accounts for most of this, but the shortened attention and memory span somehow managed to make an assassination attempt on live television seem like something that “maybe happened?” Did you notice that? How a former president was shot on live TV and by the next week it was like it never happened?
Our cultural memory problem doesn’t just lead to us forgetting consequential events. We also very quickly adapt to new creations of government and policy with precious little pushback, then we promptly forget that these new government agencies have not existed since Moses ascended Mt. Sinai to receive the stone tablets.
So it is with the U.S. Department of Education. Many of you reading this were alive before it was created; that means many of you were in school and getting an education long before anyone believed the federal government had to be involved in every classroom across the country. In only 100 years, we went from a 15-year-old Laura Ingalls teaching farm boys the three R’s (and doing it well) to a nation that requires teachers to have college degrees (more on that below).
It was President Jimmy Carter who created the Department of Education in 1979, and we can all see the depths to which “education” has plummeted for U.S. students. The DOE seems unconcerned with the extraordinary rate of illiteracy and innumeracy among American students, but very concerned with “helping” confused and abused children realize that they were born into the wrong sex’s body.
Why do we have this department? Does it do a better job than states and towns did before 1979? President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t think so, and he’s vowed to tear down the DOE on several occasions. Whether he will get this far remains to be seen, and the opposition from the credentialed class (liberals) will be histrionic and fierce.
But Trump is already making a start on reforming education by taking aim at the obviously broken college accreditation system. In a new video, Trump laid out his plan to target the left’s influence in higher education.
Trump’s plan to dismantle the U.S. indoctrination system (college) by seizing funds from schools that refuse to comply with his accreditation system.
“Our secret weapon will be the college accreditation system.”
“Fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics.”
“We will then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again.” “These standards will include defending the American tradition and Western civilization, protecting free speech, and eliminating wasteful administrative positions that drive up costs.”
“Remove all Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats, offering options for accelerated at low-cost degrees, providing meaningful job placement and career services, and implementing college entrance and exit exams to prove that students are actually learning and getting their money’s worth.”
“Direct the Department of Justice to pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination.”
“Schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity will not only have their endowments taxed, but through budget reconciliation, I will advance a measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment.”
“The seized funds will then be used as restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies.”
Trump's plan to dismantle the U.S. indoctrination system (college) by seizing funds from schools that refuse to comply with his accreditation system.
1. "Our secret weapon will be the college accreditation system."
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