Angelina Jolie’s actor father has launched an extraordinary TV attack on President Obama, accusing his Democrat administration of causing the “breakdown” of the US.
Jon Voight choked with emotion during a six-minute tirade against Obama on right-leaning Fox News.
Reading from a scrip the 75-year-old said: “Five years ago, I stated that Obama would take the country apart.
“Piece by piece, that he would cause a civil war in this country. In hindsight, we can see how many things have come to pass.”
Speaking with former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckerbee, he added: “My greatest heartache is that we sacrificed thousands of American heroes liberating Iraq, only for President Obama to pull out all troops, leaving Iraq now to be taken over by the terrorists.
“What does he say about that? Nothing.”
The “Midnight Cowboy” star also lashed out at the US government’s response to the raid on Benghazi on September 11 2012 that left four Americans dead, including American Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
“Let us remember, let us not forget Benghazi,” he said. “Let us not say, ‘What difference does it make?’
“Obama found a perfect way to put this under the rug, blaming Republicans, saying that they just want to find fault with his administration. And still to this day we still do not know the truth.”
“The Democrat Party has become a very negative force,” Voight continued. “It’s more socialistic in thinking and they’ve given young women the wrong idea about what democracy really is.”
Voight is known in Hollywood for his anti-Obama views. Two years ago the Oscar winner was vilified by Democrats for comparing the presidency to a dictatorship.
But as a young man his outlook was decidedly more liberal. He protested against the Vietnam War and in the early 1970s made public appearances alongside Jane Fonda and Leonard Bernstein in support of the leftist Unidad Popular group in Chile.
He was famously estranged from Miss Jolie after he publicly criticised her behaviour but they reportedly reconciled in 2007 following the death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
