Hillary can add a name to her “suicide” list, because she’s NOT going to like this…
George Clooney has revealed who he wanted as President… and he’s not “with her.”
Avid Hillary Clinton supporter George Clooney actually had his hopes set on Joe Biden for the 2016 presidential election and even offered to work on his campaign, it has been revealed.
The A-list actor, who hosted a lavish $353,400-a-couple fundraiser for Clinton in his home last year, told the former vice president he was willing to provide ‘any and all assistance’ to get him on the ballot.
The revelation is made in the 74-year-old’s new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose – where Biden implicitly criticizes Clinton’s unrelenting campaign.
And in a pointed dig, he makes note of the fact that he was the more popular politician among Hollywood celebs – specifically the Clooneys – who were presumed to be hardcore Hillary fans during the election.
‘An executive in the entertainment industry had insisted that I had more support in the Hollywood community than Hillary,’ Biden writes.
‘He said I could raise money without a problem. George Clooney got in touch with Steve Ricchetti soon after that.’
Clooney had already revealed he did’t think Hillary has what it takes to be POTUS.
You and me both, George.
On the other hand, he’s always been a Biden fan.
In 2015, Clooney told Biden’s chief of staff: ‘I love Joe Biden, and if he decided to do this I will step up with any and all assistance I can provide.
‘I think I’ve proved I’m a pretty good fund-raiser, so that’s all anyone asks me to do. But I am invested in this. I am willing to take a campaign role if you want me.’
Biden would soon announce he was not going to seek the Democratic nomination.
Clooney then publicly endorsed Clinton six months later in an email penned to her supporters calling the former secretary of state the ‘one consistent voice’ in the election.
And in April 2016, the Hollywood star and wife Amal hosted an extravagant fundraiser for Hillary in their Los Angeles home which was attended by approximately 150 guests including Jane Fonda, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia di Rossi, Jim Parsons and Vogue’s Anna Wintour – as well as dozens of Bernie Sanders supporters who picketed the event.
Clinton reportedly took in $15million for her campaign that weekend between Clooney’s fundraiser and an event the previous night in San Francisco.
But when she lost it was a different story. In an interview this September, Clooney turned on Hillary.The Ocean’s 13 actor told the Daily Beast he did not believe she was the ‘right person to be president,’ and admitted he supported her ‘because by the time we did the fundraiser, the primary was over at that point and it was time to get on with picking someone to move forward.’
Biden has expressed deep regret at not running.
Could it be that he’s eying 2020?
If so… I think we’re in trouble. He’s one of the only Dems I think stands a chance.
Why? He doesn’t inspire the same kind of revolting hatred so many of the others do.