The actor, who had called on the American president to withdraw from the presidential campaign, welcomed for the first time his decision not to run again.
“All the credit goes to him.” George Clooney welcomed this Sunday, September 1st during a press conference at the Venice Film Festival the decision of Joe Biden to withdraw from the American presidential campaign and leave his place to his vice-president Kamala Harris.
“The person we should applaud is the president, who did the most selfless thing a president has done since George Washington,” he said. “We should all remember that selfless act. We know how hard it is to give up power.”
And he added: “We’ve seen it all over the world. For someone of this stature to admit that there is another way is remarkable. All the credit goes to him. It’s the truth.”
Fervent Democrat
The American actor, a fervent Democrat and very involved in fundraising for the party, had called on Joe Biden to withdraw in July in a column published by the New York Times and titled “I like Joe Biden. But we need another candidate.”
“We will not win in November with this president,” the actor wrote. “The only battle he cannot win is the one against time,” he added in the face of doubts about his health since his disastrous debate with Trump in late June.
“Over the last four years, he’s won a lot of the battles he’s faced,” the actor admitted before adding: “Joe Biden is a hero, he saved democracy in 2020. We need him to save it again in 2024.”
Action comedy
George Clooney presents his new film in Venice Wolfan action comedy starring Brad Pitt, with whom he already shared the bill in Burn After Reading and the trilogy Ocean’s Eleven.
In Wolfthey find themselves mandated and forced to team up to clean up a crime scene. They “embark on a hellish night where nothing goes as planned,” promises the production. Broadcast scheduled for September 17 on Apple TV+.
