The love between the Obamas and Bidens is gone. It’s every man for himself.
Because Barack Obama sucker punched Joe Biden and Democrats are freaking out.
Former President Barack Obama was forewarned but didn’t object when Oscar-winning actor George Clooney made a bold call for President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, according to a new report.
Sources told Politico that the Hollywood A-lister contacted Obama beforehand to inform him of his intention to publish an op-ed in The New York Times on Wednesday calling for Biden to step down.
Although Obama didn’t encourage Clooney, he didn’t try to dissuade him either, the sources added.
Clooney, who co-hosted a Biden fundraiser in Los Angeles that raised about $30 million less than a month ago, declared in the piece that the Democratic incumbent “cannot win” after his disastrous 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 president.
“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 share a friendly relationship, both attended the fundraiser.
Obama’s team declined to comment on the claims that he didn’t push back on Clooney’s remarks.
Meanwhile, the 44th president was seen smiling courtside at an exhibition basketball game in Las Vegas between Canada and the U.S., ahead of the Paris Olympic Games, on Wednesday night.
The bombshell report comes after Jon Favreau, one of Obama’s former advisers and a member of the so-called “Obama bros,” echoed Clooney’s concerns, telling CNN that Biden’s debate performance “was not surprising to any of us who were at the fundraiser.”
“I was there,” Favreau said. “Clooney was exactly right, and every single person I talked to at the fundraiser thought the same thing, except for the people working for Joe Biden, or at least they didn’t say that.”
“I remember my wife, Emily, turned to me after the fundraiser and said, ‘What are we going to do?’ And I said, ‘Well, there is a debate in a week. Either he’ll do well in the debate, and we’ll think he was just tired because he flew all the way back from Europe, and that’ll be that, or he’ll be like this at the debate and then the whole country will be talking about it.’ So, here we are.”
Clooney — a staunch Democrat — bluntly declared in his op-ed: “We are not going to win in November with this president.”
“This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and Congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly,” the Syriana star said.
So far, only eight House Democrats have publicly called for Biden to end his 2024 campaign, with others — including Obama — either standing firmly behind the president or adopting a wait-and-see approach.
“The dam has broken. We can put our heads in the sand and pray for a miracle in November, or we can speak the truth,” Clooney added.
“I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals,” the actor continued.
“But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can.”
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