George Clooney has played many roles during his Hollywood career, but it was his role as the key figure in the Democrat coup that toppled Joe Biden as the party’s nominee that will be the most memorable.
The A-list actor’s July 10, 2024 op-ed for the New York Times in which he called for the geriatric leader to step aside in the aftermath of the catastrophic CNN debate has been credited by many as the pivotal factor in greasing the rails for Biden to be ousted in the putsch orchestrated by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
Clooney has denied that his BFF Obama put him up to it but is nonetheless proud of his dirty deed of burying a hatchet in the back of his “friend” Biden, a man who he headlined a swanky fundraiser for only weeks before his op-ed, an event in which the Hollywood high rollers stuffed the incumbent’s campaign coffers with cash.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote in the Times op-ed.
The “Ocean’s Eleven” star is making the media rounds promoting his new play and rehabbing his image, and sat down with CNN’s Jake Tapper for an interview in which he defended the infamous column, explaining that it was his “civic duty” to knife Biden.
George Clooney: “I’m a Democrat, but when my side stopped telling the truth, I had to speak up.”pic.twitter.com/KKqyotaq3N
— Department of Government Efficiency News (@DOGE__news) April 17, 2025
In a teaser clip aired on Wednesday, Tapper asks the lifelong Democrat about the op-ed urging top Democrats “to ask this president to voluntarily step aside.”
“It was a civic duty,” Clooney said. “Because I found that people on my side of the street, you know, I’m a Democrat, I was a Democrat in Kentucky, so I get it. When I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth, I thought that was time.”
“Are people still mad at you for that?” Tapper inquired.
“Some people, sure,” Clooney replied, acknowledging the controversial nature of his insertion of himself into the election, one that Democrats would go on to lose in a landslide after replacing Biden with his ditzy and unpopular veep Kamala Harris, costing them control of Congress as well.
Clooney defended throwing Biden under the bus as free speech, suggesting that it would be hypocritical of Democrats to expect him to remain silent after Biden’s nationally televised the emperor has no clothes moment in the debate that was moderated by Tapper.
“That’s the deal. You have to take a stand if you believe in it,” he said. “Take a stand, stand for it and then deal with the consequences, that’s the rules and so when people criticize me they criticize me because my stance against the war twenty years ago and some people pickin’ at my movies and they put me on a deck of cards, and I have to take that. That’s fair, I’m ok with that.”
One thing that Clooney wasn’t ok with was MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” bobblehead Mika Brzezinski’s remarks on-air that Obama was speaking through him with the Times op-ed, reportedly blowing his stack at one of the troubled left-wing cable network’s producers.
“How the f–k could you let her link me with Barack Obama saying he made me write the op-ed?” Clooney screamed during a phone call with the producer, according to the new book “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History,” by journalist Chris Whipple.
“You f–ked me!” Clooney reportedly shouted. “You’re my friend. You should have stood up for me.”
Biden found out that when you have friends like Clooney and Obama, don’t be surprised when they betray you and then rush to occupy the moral high ground to justify their disloyalty.
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