AG Barr Slams Disney, Hollywood Efforts ‘To Appease Chinese Communist Party’ Los Angeles


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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr leveled criticism at Walt Disney Co. and other Hollywood companies Thursday, saying filmmakers and studios have censored themselves in line with Chinese propaganda. Speaking at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Barr spoke on the growing economic might of the Chinese economy and how the U.S. government believes Hollywood has a history of caving to pressure from Beijing and censoring their films “to appease the Chinese Communist Party.” “I suspect Walt Disney would be disheartened to see how the company he founded deals with the foreign dictatorships of our day,” Barr...