Actor George Clooney has said that his call for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election was his “civic duty.” George Clooney engendered severe backlash after Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the election, with Democrats squarely placing the blame on him for encouraging former President Joe Biden to drop from the race. Reports later indicated that the actor felt he was being used as a “scapegoat.” Speaking with Jake Tapper of CNN this week, the actor defended his decision once again. “Well, I don’t know if it was brave,” Clooney told Tapper. “It was a civic duty.”