In spite of having hosted a fundraiser for President Joe Biden just three weeks prior, Oscar-winning actor George Clooney urged Democrats to select someone else as their presidential nominee in an opinion piece published in the New York Times on Wednesday.
As the Democratic nominee, Biden has come under growing pressure to withdraw after he repeatedly froze and made a number of grammatical errors in a CNN-hosted presidential debate on June 27 against former President Donald Trump. Referring to Biden’s mental health issues, Clooney stated in the opinion piece that the Biden he saw at a fundraising event on June 15 for the president’s reelection campaign was the same Biden at the debate.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote.
Clooney acknowledged that Biden seemed uninterested at the June fundraiser, but his opinion piece didn’t appear until July 10.
Remember the video of Biden being dragged off stage by Obama at that ritzy LA fundraiser?
The White House called it a “cheap fake.”
Now George Clooney admits Biden was just as out of it as he was at the debate. pic.twitter.com/67JPySPRMj
— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) July 10, 2024
“Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw,” Clooney added. “We’re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign. The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw the week before.”
