George Clooney’s wife could be barred from entering US

An anti-Trump celebrity’s spouse could find herself barred from the country over her reported involvement in the arrest warrant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

While George Clooney had corporate media elites fawning over his new Broadway play, “Good Night, and Good Luck,” there was a possibility that good nights would not be in his near future. According to a report from the Financial Times, the United Kingdom warned that sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump could impact travel for lawyers involved with the International Criminal Court, including the actor’s wife, Amal Clooney.

The Lebanon-born U.K. citizen and human rights attorney was among those who reportedly advised the ICC in its case to bring arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes.

The criminal court asserted that the Israeli officials had committed crimes against humanity and violated international law in the operations against Hamas that followed the terrorist organization’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu https://t.co/LZ7EhOvuHE

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) November 21, 2024

In early February, Trump issued an executive order regarding the ICC’s actions and asserted that the court “engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.”

“The United States will impose tangible and significant consequences on those responsible for the ICC’s transgressions, some of which many include the blocking of property and assets, as well as the suspension of entry into the United States of ICC officials, employees, and agents, as well as their immediate family members,” the order read, suggesting the actor could be impacted in addition to his wife.

“The ICC has, without a legitimate basis, asserted jurisdiction over and opened preliminary investigations concerning personnel of the United States and certain of its allies, including Israel, and has further abused its power by issuing baseless arrest warrants” against Netanyahu and Gallant, the order had detailed.

While owning property in London, England, and Lake Como, Italy, the Clooneys were living in New York City with their two children during the run of his play about Edward R. Murrow.

Meanwhile, the actor had his own political involvement to defend after he was questioned about his 2024 op-ed calling for then-President Joe Biden to step out of the race after initially supporting the cognitively declining commander-in-chief.

“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,” Clooney wrote. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Clooney contended, “It was a civic duty. Because I found that people on my side of the street, you know, I’m a Democrat, I was a Democrat in Kentucky, so I get it. When I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth, I thought that was time.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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