George Clooney Deftly Deflects Hunter Biden’s F-Bomb-Filled Rant

The “Ocean’s Eleven” actor is involved in something of a public feud with the former president’s son, as Clooney was one of the most public figures to call for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race before the 2024 election.

“Fuck him!” the president’s son said at the time. “Fuck him and everyone around him. I don’t have to be fucking nice. Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. George fucking Clooney is not a fucking actor. He’s like… I don’t know what he is. He’s a brand.”

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“What right do you have to stomp on a man who has given 52 years of his fucking life serving this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to basically run a full-page ad in the fucking New York Times to undermine the president,” Hunter Biden continued.

Clooney had a less heated response to the artist’s outburst.

“I could spend a lot of time debunking a lot of the things he said because a lot of the things he said were just blatant lies,” Clooney said in a new interview with “News Sunday Morning” that aired this weekend.

Barack “Obama didn’t push me to do it, it wasn’t my fundraising, it was was my fundraising, all the things,” the actor said.

“But the reality is, I don’t think looking back like that is helpful to anyone, especially him,” the 64-year-old added, before doing a little digging.

“I don’t think he’s any use to the Democratic Party, so I just wish him the best in his recovery, and I hope he does well and leaves it at that,” Clooney shared. “I have a lot of personal opinions on the matter, but I don’t find it useful to have a public dispute with him.”

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