Donald Trump is slamming George Clooney over his New York Times op-ed calling on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential election. Trump took to Truth Social to share his thoughts on Clooney's blunt essay. He wrote, in part, "So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act. He's turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are. What does Clooney know about anything??" He concluded his post by writing, "Crooked Joe Biden didn't save our Democracy, he brought our Democracy to its knees. Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!"
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00:00Donald Trump is slamming George Clooney over his New York Times op-ed calling on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential election.
00:07Trump took to Truth Social to share his thoughts on Clooney's blunt essay.
00:10He wrote, in part,
00:12So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act.
00:17He's turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are. What does Clooney know about anything?
00:22He concluded his post by writing, Crooked Joe Biden didn't save our democracy. He brought our democracy to its knees.
00:28Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him.
00:32It's worth noting Clooney has had a number of successful and acclaimed films.
00:35It's been suggested by political pundits that Trump likely wants Biden to stay in the race given post-debate polls that show Trump
00:42increasing his pre-debate lead. However, a new poll Thursday shows the two as essentially tied nationally.
00:47Biden's own team fired back at Clooney's essay late Wednesday, where the actor and director said that the Biden
00:52he spent time with at a recent fundraiser is not the same man who won in 2020,
00:56but instead the man America witnessed during the June 27th debate.
01:00According to New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Carney, a source familiar with event planning for the fundraiser said,
01:06quote, the president stayed over three hours at the fundraiser while Clooney took a photo quickly and left.
01:11The president's campaign has also pointed out that Biden attended the fundraiser having just flown in from Italy,
01:16where he had been attending the G7 summit. For more on this story and all the latest news, go to THR.com.
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