This Monday, July 21, Hunter Biden, the younger son of the outgoing president, strongly attacked actor George Clooney, whom he accuses of having played a major role in the withdrawal of his father from the US presidential race.
“George Clooney is not a fucking actor. Nevertheless, it’s a brand”dropped Hunter Biden during a river interview of more than three hours granted to journalist Andrew Callaghan, whose YouTube channel has more than three million subscribers.
Visibly bitter. Therefore, the president’s son continued on the podcast hosted by Jaime Harrison, former leader of the Democratic Party: “Really, you think that in average America, this voter in Green Bay, in Wisconsin, she has something to beat what George Clooney thinks she should vote?”
A platform in the New York Times
The famous “let him go fucking”: why American actor. Meanwhile, producer had been, as early as July 10, 2024, one of the first weight supporters of the Democratic party to claim the withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential campaign. Similarly, A few days later, on July 21, the president officially renounced.
In question: doubts increasingly expressed within his camp as to his physical. mental capacity to face a new campaign, after a debate deemed disastrous against Donald Trump.
In a platform published in the New York Times and entitled “I like Joe Biden. But we need another candidate”, George Clooney had explained his position. He said he observed a weakened president during a gala. far from the combative image he had been able to play in 2020. “I consider him a friend and I believe in him. I believe in his character. his moral”, then wrote the actor, before concluding: “But “let him go fucking”: why the only battle he cannot win is the one against time.”
“Let him go fucking”
Words that continue to feed Hunter Biden’s anger. Returning to this episode against Andrew Callaghan, he said: “Why should I listen to you? What right do you have to crush a man who gave 52 years of his fucking life at the service of this country. and to decide that you, George Clooney, are you going to buy a full page of pub in the fucking New York Times?” Before adding “Let him go fucking himself, and all those around him”.
Hunter Biden. whose judicial troubles and past addictions have made it a privileged target of the American right, seems to be committed today to defend his father in the face of criticism from inside the Democratic Party.