White House 'cheap fake' narrative crumbles after Clooney exposes Biden's condition at Hollywood fundraiser

The narrative aggressively pushed by the Biden campaign and White House in recent weeks about President Biden, which included trying to quash concerns about his mental fitness by calling videos of him struggling "cheap fakes," took a significant hit on Wednesday after a top Hollywood actor and a former Obama aide spoke out.

On Wednesday, actor George Clooney called on Biden to leave the 2024 race, citing what he witnessed at a Hollywood fundraiser in late June where the president was criticized for seemingly needing to be led off the stage by former President Obama.

"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 wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate," Clooney, a longtime friend of Obama, wrote.

That conclusion was backed by former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who also attended the Hollywood fundraiser.

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"It was not surprising to any of us who were at the fundraiser," said Favreau, a member of the group of staffers often referred to as the "Obama bros" during their tenure in the White House.

"I was there. Clooney was exactly right, and every single person I talked to at the fundraiser thought the same thing, except for the people working for Joe Biden, or at least they didn't say that."

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Favreau's blunt comments come just a day after he joined two of his fellow advisers and members of the "Obama bros" in dedicating the majority of their latest "Pod Save America" episode to ganging up on Biden following his