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Joe Biden Didn’t Recognize Old Friend George Clooney at 2024 Fundraiser: Report
George Clooney ignored Barack Obama and Jeffrey Katzenberg's warnings before publishing his New York Times op-ed, according to a new book
Clooney had expressed concern about Biden’s health before — a White House aide had told him a few months before that they were working on getting the president to take longer steps when he walked — but obviously the problem went far beyond his gait. Tapper and Thompson also report that, ahead of Clooney’s op-ed, the actor received word from Senator Joe Manchin that Democratic senators, as a group, “were planning to confront Biden, to try to convince him to step aside.” Following a defiant July 8 letter in which Biden declared that attempts to push him aside were subverting democracy, Clooney, disgusted, reached out to Obama, who advised against, as “doing so would only make Biden dig in deeper.” After writing the op-ed, Clooney sent it to media mogul and Democratic megadonor Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had attended sessions of Biden’s debate prep. He really wanted Clooney to cut the line about the befogged Biden at the fundraiser being ‘the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
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