Alec Baldwin revealed during a two-hour interview with CNN that he feared for his life because of former US President Donald Trump. In fact, the tycoon cracked down on the actor in 2021 after the accident on the set of the movie Rust that took the life of the cinematographer Halina Hutchins. Trump claimed at the time that the actor “probably shot her on purpose.” Words that Baldwin admitted fueled his fears that the former president would turn his supporters against the actor, just as he rallied his supporters in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Congress. “The former US President said I probably shot her on purpose,” Baldwin told CNN.
“That was the only time I worried about what was going to happen to me – the actor continued because Trump encouraged people to commit acts of violence and pointed the finger at me, saying that I was responsible for the death of Halyna Hutchins. After learning about the former US President’s statements, Baldwin said he was “1000 percent nervous” and worried about a possible attack from Trump supporters: “A group of people were directed by the former President to go to the Capitol, they killed a police officer. You killed a human. Don’t you think I was like, “Some of these people are going to come over here and kill me?”
Trump’s comments against Alec Baldwin
As Business Insider reports, Trump lashed out at Baldwin after the on-set tragedy, stating, “He’s a troubled boy. Something is wrong with him. I’ve been watching it for years. He’s one who fights with reporters. He’s a fool. He’s a little crazy. Basically, it’s my opinion that when such a person is involved, it has something to do with it. But if nothing else, how can you take a gun, loaded or not, and point it at a person, at a person who doesn’t even have to be in the film, pull the trigger… and now that person is dead. ‘
And the former US President then added: “It’s a strange thing. Who would take a gun to point at the cameraman? As bad as it may have been, that assumes you know the people who handle guns and everything else… and then, even if it was loaded, it’s a weird thing, maybe he just had it loaded. him the gun. Something is wrong with this person. She’s sick. I’ve been watching him for a while. I always thought that the impersonation he did of me was really bad. In the past, Trump has often been attacked by Baldwin’s satirical sketches on Saturday Night Live.
Alec Baldwin Replies to the FBI: ‘I Didn’t Pull the Trigger on Set’
In the meantime, Alec Baldwin He decided to answer the FBI, who accused him of pulling the trigger on the gun that fired the fatal shot against Halyna Hutchins. “I didn’t pull the trigger‘ the actor repeated. In the interview, parts of which the broadcaster anticipated, Baldwin blamed the tragedy Hannah Gutierrez Reedwho was responsible for controlling the weapons used on the set, and the assistant director David Hall, who had given him the old Colt used on set and assured him it was “cold,” meaning unloaded. Ten months after the on-set tragedy, Baldwin thinks about it “every day,” Baldwin says. But not only. Baldwin also asked questions in the interview Seth Kenney, who had provided the props for the production: According to the actor, he may have been the one who unknowingly brought “live” bullets to the set. According to the ballistics report published by the FBI in the past few days, they are said to have been found 150.
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