Clooney gave Obama a heads-up on his damning Biden op-ed — and he ‘didn’t object to it’

Actor George Clooney gave former President Barack Obama advance notice of his New York Times op-ed that bluntly called on President Joe Biden to step aside after his disastrous debate performance.

And while Obama didn’t encourage Clooney or share any notes on what to say, he didn’t have any objections to it, Politico reported.

In the damning op-ed, Clooney wrote on Wednesday that “the one battle” Biden “cannot win is the fight against time,” as he pushed Democratic leaders to face the music and stop telling the public everything is fine.

Just weeks ago, Clooney headlined a Los Angeles fundraiser — which Obama attended — that pulled in nearly $30 million for the president. The movie star insisted that Biden’s demeanor at that event was consistent with his performance at the June 27 debate against Donald Trump, where the president appeared confused and frail, making several gaffes and appearing to lose his train of thought at multiple points.

“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” he added. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

Obama was one of the first major figures in the party to come out and support Biden following his disastrous debate performance. But many of his former aides, including David Axelrod, have been critical of a re-election bid, insisting Biden no longer has what it takes to defeat Trump.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, where she gave a carefully worded response to her take on Biden’s political future, refusing to say whether she thinks the president should remain at the top of the ticket. Biden has made