© Brad Penner / ReutersLiam Neeson
Morgan Freeman's anti-Russian sentiment appears to be contagious, with fellow Hollywood star Liam Neeson seemingly also taken with the idea. Neeson has called on potential whistleblowers to aid the scrutiny of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Moscow.
Neeson urged anyone who has any information that could help the investigation into the Russia's alleged meddling into the 2016 US presidential election to come forward, adding it would be a true "patriotic" move.
"Someone asked me what the definition of patriotism is and I think it's being able to stand up and remind this country what it's doing wrong," the actor said at a premiere of
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House - a film, in which he stars as the FBI associate director, who handed over critical information on the Watergate scandal to the
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein back in 1974.
The scandal then ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Speaking at the premier, Neeson said that "history has a tendency of repeating itself," apparently referring to the parallels that are now drawn between scandals surrounding Nixon's re-election and Trump's coming to power.
"I think that whoever that Mark Felt is who can feel comfortable with doing that, then they should do it and have reason to... a justification, of course," he told the Press Association while drawing a parallel between the character he impersonated on the screen and modern would-be whistleblowers.
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