Thursday, July 11, 2024 - Former US President Barack Obama was given a heads-up but didn’t object to actor George Clooney’s bombshell call for President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race, a new report says.
Clooney had called Obama in advance to
warn him he was going to make the call in an op-ed published in the New York
Times on Wednesday, July 10, sources told Politico.
The ex-president didn’t encourage Clooney
to make the remarks, but didn’t try to stop him, either, the sources added.
Clooney, who co-hosted a Biden
fundraiser in Los Angeles that brought in some $30 million less than
a month earlier, had declared in the piece that
the Democratic incumbent “cannot win” following his train-wreck
debate performance.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the
Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big
F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney said.
“He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of
2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Clooney and Obama, who are friendly,
both attended the fundraiser.
Obama’s team declined to comment on
the claims that he didn’t push back on Clooney’s remarks.
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