evidence: In February 2020, readers asked us about the accuracy of reports that the actor and Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood had resiled from his previous support for U.S. President Donald Trump and instead expressed support for the election of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is running in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. [...] Actor and director Clint Eastwood, a longtime supporter of Republican candidates, appeared to back Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg for president and criticized President Donald Trump's behavior in office in an interview published in The Wall Street Journal Friday. "The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there," the Hollywood conservative said of the former New York mayor, according to the Journal. Eastwood told the newspaper that he approves of "certain things" that Trump has done as President, without going into further detail. He said, however, that he wishes Trump would behave "in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names," the Journal reported. [...] It was also relatively significant. Eastwood, who described himself as a libertarian in the Journal interview, expressed a preference for Trump's election in 2016 over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, although he added that that choice was "tough." He was a prominent critic of former President Barack Obama and took part in the Republican National Convention in 2012.