CNN isn’t buying the bull quite as much as it used to…
Jake Tapper questioned a strange response given by the Biden Administration on Wednesday after it seemed to suggest that President Biden has more stamina than George Clooney.
The comment was issued in response to Clooney’s brutal New York Times op-ed calling on President Biden to step aside in the 2024 presidential race.
“It’s devastating to say it, but 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 witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote about a recent Hollywood fundraiser for the president.
CNN White House correspondent Kayla Tausche relayed the official White House spin to Tapper.
“Biden aides point to an aggressive travel schedule in the coming weeks. He’s set to go to Michigan on Friday, Nevada next week, as well as an aggressive fundraising schedule with events planned in Texas and Colorado and two in California as proof that he is not going anywhere,” Tausche said.
She added, “And in response to those comments from George Cooney, Jake, a campaign official who attended that Los Angeles fundraiser tells me that George Clooney left three hours before the president. So clearly the gloves are off.”
“What does that mean, George Clooney left three hours earlier? What‘s the point?” a confused Tapper asked.
“The point of that is to suggest that Biden’s stamina is better than Clooney‘s and Clooney didn‘t have eyes on the entire event. That‘s the response to the Clooney op-ed,” Tausche responded.
“Okay,” a skeptical Tapper responded.
Watch the clip above.