Amal Clooney interviewed on Meet the Press, calls her political critics desperate
As we discussed on Friday, Amal Clooney was in Washington, DC for a week to speak to Congressmen and Obama administration officials about the ongoing situation in the Maldives. Amal is representing Maldives’ former president Mohamed Nasheed, and she’s been arguing that the breakdown in democracy in the Maldives is cause for America to impose limited sanctions against the country.
Amal notably sat down for her first interview with an American channel last week when she chatted with NBC News, and then on Sunday, she sat down for another interview with Meet the Press’s Chuck Todd. Chuck Todd is not interested in celebrities at all, and he avoided questions about George Clooney or what it’s like for Amal to have her own stylist now and all of that. The interview was just about the Maldives. I walked away from this interview thinking, “Damn, she’s a fast talker!”
The few times when Chuck Todd skirted around something personal, it was in relation to this case. A Maldivian politician had accused Amal of being a lying celebrity, and Amal basically said that the politician who said that is now in jail because the current president is “now increasingly paranoid and going after members of his own party, having dealt with the opposition in its entirety.”
She was also asked about her personal safety – especially since someone on her legal team was shot several months ago – and Amal said: “I think that the kind of attack that I got from that vice president is an act of desperation, and it’s easy to dispose of. So it’s not something that’s worrying. I think, on the other hand, in representing this client and trying to just procure his release and the release of other political prisoners, if people are made aware of the situation in the Maldives, I think that’s a good thing.”
While I’m not a member of the “Amal Clooney Is an Impossible Goddess” Fan Club, I do give her credit for being quick on her feet and more than capable of conducting herself well in interviews. She easily managed to avoid potential interview pitfalls and she is great at coming across as cautiously inoffensive.
Photos courtesy of Meet the Press, Twitter.
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