Here’s What George Clooney Thinks About Hunter Biden’s Attacks Against Him

Actor George Clooney responded to former first son Hunter Biden’s recent accusations against him, defending his previous comments about former President Joe Biden and criticizing the younger Biden for making false statements and “looking backwards.”

“I could spend a lot of time debunking many of the things he said because many of the things he said were just outright lies, you know,” Clooney told CBS’s Seth Doane on Sunday. “‘Obama didn’t put me up to it. It wasn’t my fundraiser.’ It was my [his] fundraiser. All the things.”

Clooney was responding to multiple comments made by Hunter Biden in the wake of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, and Biden’s father’s controversial choice to drop out of the presidential race.

In an interview with Andrew Callaghan on his Channel 5 show in July, Hunter took issue with claims made by Clooney about President Biden not recognizing him as a fundraiser in Los Angeles– a story reported in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s bombshell book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.

Hunter told Callaghan that Clooney’s claims were made up “to justify somehow him going above and beyond to write an op-ed in the New York Times to try to force the sitting president of the United States out of the race.”

“F*ck him, f*ck him and everybody around him,” Hunter said of Clooney.

Biden was referencing the highly publicized New York Times op-ed, titled “I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee,” published by Clooney in July of 2024. The piece became a critical part of the left-wing pressure urging former President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, something he ultimately chose to do less than two weeks after the op-ed was published.

In the piece, Clooney described seeing Biden’s mental decline up close, writing that “the one battle he [Biden] cannot win is the fight against time.”

“What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f*cking life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are gonna take out basically a full-page ad in the f*cking New York Times to undermine the president at a time in which, by the way, what do people care about the most?” said Hunter.

The former president’s son continued his attacks in an interview in October, telling Mediaite writer Tommy Christopher on his Substack that “what George did, I just thought was a, was a self-sabotaging act of disloyalty, not just to my dad, but to the whole party.”

Responding to Hunter in his Sunday interview, Clooney told Doane that he prefers to move on rather than stoke the controversy.

“[T]he reality is, I don’t think looking backwards like that is helpful to anyone, particularly to him [Biden],” said Clooney. “I don’t think it’s helpful to the Democratic Party, and so I’m just going to wish him well on his ongoing recovery, and I hope he does well and just leave it at that.”

Clooney clarified that while he has his own thoughts about Biden’s comments, he didn’t think continuing the “public spat” was constructive.

“I have many personal opinions about it, but I don’t find it to be helpful to have a public spat with him.”