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Clooney calls Biden 'selfless', dodges own role in ‘machinations’ forcing prez from race
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1:47Now PlayingGeorge Clooney on Sunday compared Joe Biden to George Washington in his first remarks since writing a bombshell New York Times op-ed calling on the 81-year-old prez to drop his re-election bid.
The Hollywood powerhouse fawned over Biden while brushing aside the furious behind-the-scenes and sometimes cringe-worthy public “machinations” — including by Clooney himself — that led up to the president caving.
“The person who should be applauded is the president, who did the most selfless thing that anybody’s done since George Washington,” Clooney said in a nod to the nation’s first commander in chief, who stepped aside after his second term, when asked about his Times essay during an interview at the Venice Film Festival.
“All the machinations that got us there, none of that’s gonna be remembered, and it shouldn’t be,” the 63-year-old actor and director added, according to Entertainment Weekly.
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