Actor and director George Clooney is calling for President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, in the process admitting that he knew Biden was unable to do the job and was supporting him anyway until the public saw what he saw.
In an opinion piece titled, “I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee,” Clooney admits that “the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser … was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.” Clooney, well-connected in the Democratic Party as a donor and activist who even managed to have Biden’s ear on the topic of Israel and Gaza, says that “every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private” thinks Biden will lose. “Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly,” Clooney said.
Clooney goes on to say that Biden is old, a problem that can’t be reversed, and that he and other Democrats “collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, who we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.” There is one glaring alarm in this piece though, and it is that admission Clooney makes early on: “the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser … was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Clooney saw in private the exact same Biden that stumbled through both the debate and an interview with former Democratic operative George Stephanopoulos and admitted as much. He knew that Biden could not function in unscripted interactions and, like the whole of liberal media and like Biden’s team, was willing to ignore that fact to continue to promote Biden until the debate made that implausible. Had that debate not happened yet, Clooney would not be calling for Biden to step down, even though he has seen that very same Biden that the country saw at his lavish celebrity fundraisers.
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This is exactly how this has played out in liberal media as well, with reporters acknowledging back in February that they should be talking about Biden’s age more only to label any video showing Biden’s verbal, mental, and physical stumbles as a “cheap fake” or “disinformation.” Democratic activists, politicians, and liberal media were all content to promote Biden as being sharper than all his aides behind the scenes up until the debate shattered that narrative that they, like Clooney, knew was false.
Clooney and other Biden allies in media and politics were fully willing to lie to the public about Biden’s condition up until that lie was impossible to maintain. They were willing to pretend that Biden was fine and competent so long as he hid from unscripted interactions (such as press conferences, which Biden has avoided for most of his presidency) and read off a teleprompter every once and a while. They were ready to lock in four more years of what the country saw in the debate and smear everyone who noticed as a conspiracy theorist, and that should stick with their reputation forever.