Comedian Roseanne Barr has become something of a Twitter aficionado over the last few years, moving further away from TV acting and spending more time making online political commentary.
She’s no stranger to strong opinion, that’s for sure, especially when it comes to anti-Semitism, feminism and the current American presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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The normally centre-and-left-leaning Barr shocked many of her followers when she stated in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the American people would “be lucky if Trump won.”
“I think we would be so lucky if Trump won,” she said. “Because then it wouldn’t be Hillary.”
“I think Hillary probably got the receipt, because she paid for the Oval Office,” she continued. “And both Trump and Bernie are playing the heel for Hillary.”
She slammed Clinton and the entire election itself (saying it was “fixed”), accusing the ex-Secretary of State of being friends with “everybody that gives her any goddamned money.”
“The fact is, you don’t get to be the nominee without taking a lot of dirty money,” she said. “You might be the best f***in’ person on earth, but if you’re hanging out with criminals who do bad things, that matters a lot.”
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She then went on to speak well of Trump, mainly because he largely financed his own campaign without help from donations and “dirty money.”
“That’s the only way he could’ve gotten that nomination,” she said. “Because nobody wants a president who isn’t from Yale and Harvard and in the club. It’s all about distribution. When you’re in the club, you’ve got people that you sell to. That’s how money changes hands, that’s how business works. If you’ve got friends there, they scratch your back and blah, blah.”
Barr said she admires Trump’s respect for the order of law, and agrees with him on the prospect of vetting all potential immigrants to the U.S.
“I mean, illegal immigration…,” she said. “…When people come here and they get a lot of benefits that our own veterans don’t get. What’s up with that?”
After Twitter users began attacking her for her perceived Trump support, Barr called her followers “idiots” for thinking she supports or would vote for Trump.
She then insists that she’s voting for herself, anyway.
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