Biden didn’t recognize George Clooney at 2024 fundraiser, new book says
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Former President Joe Biden did not recognize movie star George Clooney when he arrived for a record-breaking June 2024 fundraiser Clooney was co-hosting, according to a new book.
Former President Joe Biden did not recognize George Clooney when he arrived for a record-breaking June 2024 fundraiser the movie star was co-hosting, according to a forthcoming book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson. Backstage before the fundraiser, Clooney greeted the president when he arrived after a three-day trip to Italy for the G7 conference. The president appeared “severely diminished, as if he’d aged a decade since Clooney last saw him in December 2022,” the authors write in an excerpt of the book published in the New Yorker on Tuesday: “You know George,” the assisting aide told the president, gently reminding him who was in front of him. “Yeah, yeah,” the president said to one of the most recognizable men in the world, the host of this lucrative fundraiser. “Thank you for being here.” “It seemed clear that the President had not recognized Clooney,” Tapper and Thompson write. The excerpt was published from Tapper and Thompson’s new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which will be released on May 20. The book is based on more than 200 interviews, mostly with Democratic insiders, almost all of which occurred after the 2024 election.
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