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Joe Biden Didn’t Seem To Recognize George Clooney At 2024 Los Angeles Fundraiser, New Book Details
A new book details the actor's shock at the president's appearance.
When Joe Biden arrived at a heavily promoted, record-breaking fundraiser in Los Angeles last year, he didn’t appear to recognize one of the star co-hosts of the event: George Clooney. In an excerpt in The New Yorker, Tapper and Thompson detail the scene at a pre-fundraiser clutch, as Clooney and Julia Roberts, another co-host, entertained high-dollar donors while waiting for Biden to arrive. The White House pushed back against some reporting by outlets on the right as spreading “cheap fake” videos, but Biden’s disastrous debate performance later in the month convinced Clooney and other Democrats that his campaign was not sustainable.
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