Obama knew in advance of George Clooney’s bombshell call for Biden to drop out — but didn’t object
By Social Links for Emily Crane
Published July 11, 2024, 6:56 a.m. ET
Former President Barack Obama was given a heads-up but didn’t object to Oscar-winning actor George Clooney’s bombshell call for President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race, a new report says.
The Hollywood A-lister 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, 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 of the 81-year-old commander-in-chief.
“He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
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