Former President Barack Obama was recently 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 via NY Post.
It has been noted that the Hollywood A-lister had called Obama in advance to warn him he would make the call in an op-ed published in the New York Times on Wednesday, sources told Politico.
The former president didn’t encourage Clooney to make the remarks. However, he 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.”
Clooney, 63, and Obama, 62, who are friendly, both attended the fundraiser. Obama’s team declined to comment about the claims that he didn’t push back on Clooney’s remarks.
Meanwhile, the 44th president was spotted Wednesday night smiling courtside at an exhibition basketball game in Las Vegas between Canada and the US, ahead of the Paris Olympic Games.
