Clooney: Trump, Cruz run fear campaigns

Actor George Clooney said in an interview aired Sunday that GOP presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are basing their campaigns on fear.

“We have to be afraid of everything. We have to be afraid of refugees. We have to be afraid of Muslims,” Clooney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” referring to the campaign rhetoric from the Texas senator and Trump.

{mosads}“The question is — and this is an important one — are we really going to be scared of the very things that have made our country great? And if the answer is, ‘yes,’ then we have history to answer to, because we’re not afraid. We are not a country that is afraid, and I refuse to accept that,” Clooney said.

He said Muslims would never be banned from the country, an idea Trump proposed after terror attacks in Paris and Brussels this year.

He also slammed Trump for comments he’s made about torturing terror suspects.

“We’re not going to go back to torture, and we’re not going to kill the families of terrorists or suspected terrorists because that is not who we are,” Clooney said. “And if we did, our grandparents and their parents would be ashamed of us.”

Clooney, a Hillary Clinton supporter, has hosted several high-dollar events for the Democratic front-runner, though he added he doesn’t like doing them.

“I don’t think anybody does. I don’t even think politicians do,” Clooney said. “It’s not the most fun thing to do.”