Former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, discussed many topics during a three-hour-long interview with Channel 5’s Andrew Callaghan, including a rant against major Democrat donor George Clooney.

Clooney infamously turned on Biden after his disastrous debate performance, urging him to drop out of the presidential race last July in an op-ed in The New York Times.

“F*** him,” Hunter said of the A-list actor. “F*** him and everybody around him. I don’t have to be f***ing nice. Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. F***ing George Clooney is not a f***ing actor. He is f***ing like… I don’t know what he is. He’s a brand.”

Hunter went on, “And by the way, God bless him. You know what? He supposedly treats his friends really well. You know what I mean? Buys them things, and he’s got a really great place in Lake Como, and he’s great friends with Barack Obama. F*** you. What do you have to do with f***ing anything? Why do I have to f***ing listen to you?”

“What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f***ing life to the service 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 at a time in which, by the way, what do people care about the most?”

“Why do you think that the Republicans have an advantage over us? Because they’re unified,” Hunter said.

Clooney’s op-ed called out Biden’s mental fitness, saying the former president could not “win” a fight against time.

“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote in part. 

“We are not going to win in November with this president,” the actor added.

Elon Musk announced on Monday that he would not cooperate with French authorities in their “politically motivated criminal investigations” against his social media platform, X.

The Paris public prosecutor’s office opened a probe against X in June in response to allegations by politician Eric Bothorel that the platform was performing “fraudulent data extraction” for “foreign interference purposes.”

A separate complaint said that X “now offers an enormous amount of hateful, racist, anti-LGBT+ and homophobic political content, which aims to skew the democratic debate in France.”

Musk has dismissed the allegations as “completely false” and says the probe “egregiously undermines X’s fundamental right to due process and threatens our users’ rights to privacy and free speech.”

“For these reasons, X has not acceded to the French authorities’ demands, as we have a legal right to do.”

“French authorities have requested access to X’s recommendation algorithm and real-time data about all user posts on the platform in order for several ‘experts’ to analyze the data and purportedly ‘uncover the truth’ about the operation of the X platform,” Musk wrote.

He claimed that two of the proposed experts are openly hostile towards X. One, David Chalaverias, leads a campaign called EscapeX, which calls for a mass exodus from the platform, citing a biased algorithm and “Elon Musk’s influence in European democracies.”

“The involvement of these individuals raises serious concerns about the impartiality, fairness, and political motivations of the investigation, to put it charitably,” Musk wrote.

He also noted that while X is “in the dark” about the exact nature of the allegations, French authorities have labeled the company as an “organized gang.” This designation, which is usually reserved for drug cartels or mafia groups, gives police greater investigative power, including the authorization to conduct searches, wiretaps, and surveillance against Musk and his employees. Noncompliance could result in an arrest warrant.

“Based on what we know so far, X believes that this investigation is distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda and, ultimately, restrict free speech,” he concluded.

This comes amidst a broader European movement to crack down on tech companies in the wake of the European Union’s 2022 Digital Services Act, and increasing disagreement between the United States and Europe on the limits of free speech.

The European Commission has already fined Apple and Meta millions of euros. It is in the middle of a drawn-out investigation into X, and has already found that X violated the Digital Services Act on three accounts, including “the transparency of its advertising; data access for researchers; and the use of blue check marks that connote trust but can be bought — which could constitute deceptive design.”

Musk said the EU tried to pressure X into censoring its users: “The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.”

“The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not.”