George Clooney has piled on U.S. leader Donald Trump, blaming him for the horrors of the Capitol siege last week.
Trump supporters took over the building as politicians were officially certifying the results of November’s general election, which the President lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
The procedure was halted and those inside were forced to barricade themselves in offices as domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol, stealing items of interest, vandalising historic artefacts, and creating havoc.
One activist was shot dead during the siege and a police officer has since died from injuries sustained during the hours-long fracas. Three other deaths have been linked to the event.
Many celebrities have already slammed Trump, and politically-active Clooney appeared on KCRW’s The Business podcast over the weekend and revealed he found it “devastating” to watch “the people’s house being desecrated in that way”.
“It just seemed like that line just kept getting moved and moved and moved and outrage didn’t even matter anymore, even to the point of calling the Secretary of State in Georgia and pressuring him (to find more votes for Trump in the election). None of that seemed to matter. This mattered,” George said.
“This puts Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka, all of them, into the dustbin of history. That name will now forever be associated with insurrection.”