Joe Biden's son hits out at George Clooney for ‘undermining' his father
Clooney supported Democrat Mr Biden's bid for a second term and even headlined a record-setting fundraiser for the then-president.
But the actor changed his stance after Mr Biden turned in a disastrous debate performance against Republican Donald Trump in June 2024 and added his voice to mounting calls for the then-81-year-old president to leave the race.
Clooney made his feelings known in an opinion piece in The New York Times. Mr Biden ended up leaving the race a few weeks later and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris. She lost to Mr Trump.
In the lengthy and wide-ranging interview, Hunter Biden questioned why anyone should listen to Clooney and said the Ocean's Eleven actor had no right to 'undermine' his father.
'What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his f****** life to the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f****** New York Times to undermine the president,' Hunter Biden said before he trailed off to talk about how Republicans are more unified than Democrats.
Joe Biden served 36 years in the US Senate and eight years as Barack Obama's vice president before he was elected president in 2020.
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