A year after Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 presidential race, his son Hunter Biden is lashing out — directly blaming Hollywood icon George Clooney for helping push the elder Biden off the political stage.
In a profanity-filled interview with independent journalist Andrew Callaghan, Hunter Biden didn’t hold back.
“F*** him. And everybody around him,” Hunter said when asked about Clooney’s high-profile New York Times op-ed that publicly urged President Biden to step aside.
“Really, do you think in middle America, that voter in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gives a s*** what George Clooney thinks about who she should vote for?”
Hunter’s comments mark the first time a member of the Biden family has so explicitly addressed the wave of Democratic pressure — including from party insiders and celebrities — that led Joe Biden to end his re-election bid just months before the 2024 vote.
Hunter continued his tirade, suggesting that Clooney’s opinion piece in The New York Times had an outsized and unwarranted impact.
“Why do I have to f***ing listen to you? What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f***ing life to the service of this country?” he said.
“And decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full-page ad in the f***ing New York Times?”
CLOONEY QUESTIONS BIDEN’S RE-ELECTION BID
Published on July 10, 2024, Clooney’s op-ed, “I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee,” helped ignite the growing public debate over Biden’s age and fitness following a widely panned debate performance against Donald Trump in late June.
“I consider him a friend, and I believe in him…In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced. But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time,” Clooney wrote, recalling a fundraiser where he described Biden as visibly diminished.
Less than two weeks later, Biden, then 81, officially ended his campaign on July 21, clearing the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democratic nominee.
The younger Biden, who has been dogged for years by legal issues and addiction, was later granted a full presidential pardon by his father in December—just weeks before Trump took office.
HUNTER BIDEN SAYS AMBIEN AFFECTED HIS FATHER
Hunter Biden claimed that his father was taking the prescription sleep aid Ambien ahead of the June 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump — a performance widely seen as the turning point that forced Joe Biden to exit the race weeks later.
Hunter said the combination of medication and a gruelling travel schedule left the then-president exhausted and unprepared.
“He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as s–t. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep,” Hunter said. Hunter defended his father’s condition, saying fatigue and medication were to blame. “He flew around the world, basically the mileage he could have flown around the world three times,” Hunter said. “He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he’s a deer in the headlights.”
Hunter Biden also denied any connection to the mysterious bag of cocaine found in the West Wing of the White House in 2023. “I have been clean and sober since June of 2019. I have not touched a drop of alcohol or a drug, and I’m incredibly proud of that,” he said.
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With inputs from Agencies