BIDEN DIGS IN: Campaign Blames George Clooney’s Call to Quit on ‘Pre-Existing Tensions’ Over Gaza
The Biden campaign is digging in against Hollywood star George Clooney.
Clooney, a Hollywood megastar with considerable influence across Democratic circles, recently wrote an op-ed for The New York Times calling for Biden to step aside due to his deteriorating mental and physical health.
However, a campaign source told The Wrap that Clooney’s call to action was likely the result of “pre-existing tensions” between him and the White House.
“There were pre-existing tensions with Clooney. See the call on Gaza,” the source told The Wrap, adding that “the president had literally just gotten off the plane from G7” ahead of Clooney’s June 15th fundraiser that he had cited during his article.
Tensions between Clooney and the White House are understood to have mounted because of their response to the International Criminal Court’s issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant,
