George Clooney said it was his “civic duty” to break ranks from the Democratic Party and publicly tell President Biden to drop out of the election last year.

The actor told CNN the Democrats “not telling the truth” about Biden’s health compelled him to write an op-ed for The New York Times in July, after Biden’s disastrous performance in a TV debate with Donald Trump.

The article prompted criticism from both sides, with some on the left resisting calls for a new Democratic presidential candidate and others taking issue with Clooney, 63, intervening in the first place as a Hollywood celebrity.

“I don’t know if it was brave [to write the piece],” Clooney told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “It was a civic duty because I found