In a newly published interview in the Guardian newspaper, actress Susan Sarandon claims that when she dropped her support for Hillary Clinton in favor of Bernie Sanders in 2016, she received vulgar and threatening messages from Clinton supporters.
From the Guardian:
During the last election, Sarandon supported Bernie Sanders, then wouldn’t support Clinton after she won the nomination, and now all the moderates hate her, to the extent, she says, that she had to change her phone number because people she identifies as Hillary trolls sent her threatening messages. “I got from Hillary people ‘I hope your crotch is grabbed’, ‘I hope you’re raped’. Misogynistic attacks.
“I did think she was very, very dangerous,” Sarandon said of Clinton. “We would still be fracking, we would be at war [if she was president]. It wouldn’t be much smoother. Look what happened under Obama that we didn’t notice.”
When interviewer Emma Brockes said it was “absurd” to claim that issues like healthcare, childcare, taxes and immigration wouldn’t be far different under a Clinton presidency, Sarandon answered that Hillary would have just done things “sneakily” like Obama did: “He deported more people than have been deported now. How he got the Nobel peace prize I don’t know. I think it was very important to have a black family in the White House and I think some of the stuff he did was good. He tried really hard about healthcare. But he didn’t go all the way because of big pharma.”
Sarandon also had an interested take on the current sex abiuse scandals plaguing Hollywood.
“There are a lot of people who did say no,” she said. “I think the big question here is that if Harvey Weinstein exposed himself to you when you were on a yacht in Cannes and you told everybody – this is Angie Everhart’s story – and everyone said: ‘Well, that’s just Harvey’ and it wasn’t a big deal – those are the people who are perpetuating it, too. Now, I’m sure there’s a lot of men who were much smoother at seducing than James Toback and Harvey Weinstein, who a lot of women felt very flattered to be sleeping with, even if they didn’t get the job. There’s just a culture, starting in the 60s and 70s, where there was a certain amount of liberation that made it possible for those things to happen without even seeing yourself as a victim.”
Sarandon discusses her decision to support Bernie over Hillary in the 2016 video below:
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