We all know that Joe Biden wasn’t completely there during his presidency (perhaps both figuratively and literally.) But, as more details about the extent of his cognitive decline are revealed, it gets even more shocking. Apparently, Joe Biden was so far gone at his big fundraiser headlined by famous celebrities and Barack Obama that he failed to recognize actor George Clooney, whom he has known for years. According to a new book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, George Clooney was “shaken to his core” following the awkward encounter. Joe Biden was so cognitively impaired as president that he didn’t recognize George Clooney at an event where Barack Obama eventually had to lead Biden off the stage: pic.twitter.com/Kx2s79izL8 — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 13, 2025 Mario Nawfal explained: GEORGE CLOONEY: BIDEN DIDN’T KNOW WHO I WAS… George Clooney says Joe Biden didn’t recognize him. That’s the opening gut punch in Original Sin, a new book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, which claims the President looked “severely diminished” at a June 2024… https://t.co/z8ffniNZqH pic.twitter.com/AaQKWyRcVn — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 14, 2025 GEORGE CLOONEY: BIDEN DIDN’T KNOW WHO I WAS… George Clooney says Joe Biden didn’t recognize him. That’s the opening gut punch in Original Sin, a new book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, which claims the President looked “severely diminished” at a June 2024 fundraiser—taking tiny steps, trailing off mid-speech, and needing Obama to step in. Clooney later called on Biden to drop out. Behind closed doors, aides reportedly debated using a wheelchair if he ran again. Biden’s team denies wrongdoing but hasn’t refuted the details. The New Yorker published an excerpt from the book that details Clooney’s reaction to Biden not recognizing him: Biden hobbled out from around the corner. Clooney knew that the President had just arrived from the G-7 leaders’ summit in Apulia, Italy, that morning and might be tired, but, holy shit, he wasn’t expecting this. The President appeared severely diminished, as if he’d aged a decade since Clooney last saw him, in December, 2022. He was taking tiny steps, and an aide seemed to be guiding him by the arm. “It was like watching someone who was not alive,” a Hollywood V.I.P. recalled. “It was startling. And we all looked at each other. It was so awful.” “Thank you for being here,” the President said to guests as he shuffled past them. “Thank you for being here.” Clooney felt a knot form in his stomach as the President approached him. Biden looked at him. “Thank you for being here,” he said. “Thank you for being here.” “You know George,” the assisting aide told the President, gently reminding him who was in front of him. “Yeah, yeah,” the President said to one of the most recognizable men in the world, the host of this lucrative fund-raiser. “Thank you for being here.” “Hi, Mr. President,” Clooney said. “How are ya?” the President replied. “How was your trip?” Clooney asked. “It was fine,” the President said. It seemed clear that the President had not recognized Clooney. “It was not O.K.,” recalled the Hollywood V.I.P. who had witnessed this moment. “That thing, the moment where you recognize someone you know—especially a famous person who’s doing a fucking fund-raiser for you—it was delayed. It was uncomfortable.” “George Clooney,” the aide clarified for the President. “Oh, yeah!” Biden said. “Hi, George!” Clooney was shaken to his core. The President hadn’t recognized him, a man he had known for years. Clooney had expressed concern about Biden’s health before—a White House aide had told him a few months before that they were working on getting the President to take longer steps when he walked—but obviously the problem went far beyond his gait. This was much graver. This was the President of the United States? A few weeks after hosting this fundraiser, George Clooney called on Joe Biden to drop out of the race. George Clooney calls on Joe Biden to step down, three weeks after co-hosting a fundraiser for him: “The Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all… pic.twitter.com/2kZxkgtDf3 — Pop Base (@PopBase) July 10, 2024 The New York Post noted: Fewer than four weeks later, Clooney — who co-hosted the event that ended up raising some $30 million — publicly called for the then-commander-in-chief to drop out of the race. In a scathing July 10 New York Times op-ed, Clooney had declared that Biden “cannot win” the election following his catastrophic June 27, 2024, debate performance against Donald Trump. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote at the time. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.” Clooney — a staunch Democrat — then bluntly declared: “We are not going to win in November with this president.” Thompson and Tapper reported that Clooney wrote the op-ed at his home in the South of France and passed it to Biden adviser Steve Ricchetti via movie producer Jeffrey Katzenberg. “Ricchetti read it and was furious,” the authors write. “Internally, he threatened to shut Clooney down—some of his colleagues thought he sounded like a Mob boss.” Katzenberg, who had asked Clooney to co-host the fundraiser, objected to the actor’s take that Biden had been “the same man we all witnessed at the debate” at the donor event two weeks earlier. “It’s not fair, what you’re saying, Katzenberg said,” according to Thompson and Tapper. “You’re right, it’s not fair, Clooney agreed. Aging was awful. It really wasn’t fair. But, Clooney said, it’s accurate.” Now, Biden was definitely in rapid mental decline by the time he called it quits. However, to give Biden the benefit of the doubt, it’s not like Clooney is aging very well… I mean, George Clooney looks like this now. You can’t really blame Biden for not recognizing him. pic.twitter.com/E3dpSahawN — Izengabe (@Izengabe_) May 13, 2025 I guess that like Joe Biden, I too must have dementia not recognizing that the dude on the right is George Clooney. pic.twitter.com/S438avk3Hj — Kes Bretagne (@KesendraB) May 13, 2025 Still, this is a serious issue. Joe Biden was still the sitting president, technically-speaking, at the time of this fundraiser. If he wasn’t mentally well enough to run the country then who was calling the shots? Thoughts?

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem just hinted at possible charges for two New Jersey Democrat lawmakers. On Friday, two members of Congress violently attacked ICE agents during an altercation outside the gates of the recently-opened Delaney Detention Center in Newark, NJ. Now, Kristi Noem has confirmed that they were “committing felonies” by “assaulting law enforcement officers.” Watch what she had to say here: Noem: We had members of congress assaulting law enforcement officers. They were cooperating with criminals to create criminal acts and then they are saying that they were providing oversight. This wasn’t oversight, this was committing felonies pic.twitter.com/hPBS7FYpr5 — Acyn (@Acyn) May 14, 2025 In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the bodycam footage of Democrat Reps. McIver and Menendez assaulting law enforcement officers: BREAKING: I have obtained exclusive ICE officer body cam footage clearly showing Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally and physically assaulting federal agents in New Jersey after illegally entering an ICE detention facility. In the video you can see indisputable evidence of… pic.twitter.com/msAQBz23oJ — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 10, 2025 And, here’s a version in slow motion: Here’s the assault by representatives McIver and Menendez slowed down and looped. What more does @SpeakerJohnson and/or a judge need to see than this? Arrest the two representatives. They need to resign from Congress. https://t.co/rhlqZaubH7 pic.twitter.com/SQBTUniD4T — Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) May 9, 2025 That certainly looks like assault of a federal officer to me. If prosecuted, as Noem is hinting, these members of Congress could face several years in prison and a fine up to $250,000! Grok says: Assaulting a federal officer, such as an ICE agent, is a federal crime with penalties based on the severity of the assault: Simple Assault: No physical contact or injury required (e.g., threatening or attempting to strike the agent). Punishable by up to 1 year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000. Assault with Physical Contact or Intent to Commit a Felony: Involves physical contact or intent to commit another felony (e.g., resisting arrest with force). Punishable by up to 8 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 It’s time to see some arrests… No one is above the law is rapidly becoming the motto of today’s age. If lawmakers are attacking law enforcement, they should be held accountable. No excuses for committing felonies! — Barefoot Pregnant (@usuallypregnant) May 14, 2025 What do you think?

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