Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: 'F--- him and everybody around him'
Hunter Biden went off on actor George Clooney and other high-profile Democrats in an expletive-filled response to their calls for his father, former President Biden, to drop out of the 2024 election.
Appearing on YouTube personality Andrew Callagan’s web series “Channel 5,” Hunter Biden lashed out at Clooney and other members of the party who publicly criticized the former president after his disastrous debate against President Trump in summer 2024.
“F--- him, f--- him, f--- him and everybody around him,” Hunter Biden said during the interview released Monday, in response to an anecdote about Clooney’s political involvement. “I don’t have to be f------ nice. No.1, I agree with Quentin Tarantino … F------ George Clooney is not a f------ actor. He is a f------ , like … I don’t know what he is. He is a brand.”
Cooney was among the first prominent Democrats to call on former President Biden to drop out, warning in an op-ed in The New York Times last July that the party would lose the election otherwise.
Within two weeks, the former president announced he was dropping his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Harris to fill his place. Clooney thanked Biden “for saving democracy once again” in response and endorsed Harris.
The former president’s son also lashed out at other high-profile figures in the party.
“What do you have to do with f------ anything? Why do I have to f------ listen to you?” Biden asked. “What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f------ life to service of this country and to decide you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f------ New York Times … to me, and James Carville who hasn’t run a race in 40 f------ years, and David Axelrod who had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama and that was because of Barack Obama, not because of f------ David Axelrod and David Plouffe and all of these guys … and the Pod Save America Guys, who were junior f------ speechwriters on Barack Obama’s Senate staff who had been dining out on their relationship with him…”
Hunter Biden, who was pardoned over multiple federal charges by his father during the last weeks of the former president’s administration, has reemerged in public for the first time in months to slam the Democratic Party’s handling of the election.
He is slated to appear on former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison’s new podcast, where he has blamed the Democratic Party’s loss on its lack of loyalty to his father.
“You know what, we are going to fight amongst ourselves for the next three years until there’s a nominee. And then with the nominee, we better as hell get behind that nominee,” Biden told Harrison on “At Our Table.”
Tommy Vietor, one of the hosts of “Pod Save America,” responded to Biden’s comments in a tweet.
“It's good to see that Hunter has taken some time to process the election, look inward, and hold himself accountable for how his family's insular, dare I say, arrogant at times, approach to politics led to this catastrophic outcome we're all now living with,” he wrote.