Actor George Clooney was shook to his core by the state on President Biden at a 2024 campaign fundraiser, a new book says.

The next month, Clooney published his op ed urging Biden to withdraw from the race. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was serving as co-chair of Biden’s campaign, took issue with Clooney’s assessment and doubted that the op ed would have the desired effect, Tapper and Thompson wrote.

In a jaw-dropping moment at a Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles last June, the former president reportedly didn’t recognize George Clooney