George Clooney’s ‘Morning Joe’ Meltdown

Exclusive: Author Chris Whipple on the Biden campaign’s final days

Welcome back to The Red Letter. For all of my subscribers, it’s no shock to learn that Elon Musk’s days in the Trump White House are numbered. I reported three weeks ago in “Fear and Loathing in the West Wing,” that there was boiling resentment towards Musk. He was supposed to stay for 130 days as a special government employee, but he may not make it to 100, according to POLITICO.

“The staff is happy that the distractor-in-chief is going to move on,” a former Trump administration official told me. “He was never going to be permanent, but his impact will be.”

Musk joins the ranks of other Trump officials who have lasted for less than 100 days like Mike Flynn, Scaramucci, etc., etc.

And now on to the main dish:

The tell-all books on the Biden campaign are flooding in and the latest from legendary journalist Chris Whipple, Unchartered: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, hits bookshelves next Tuesday, April 8. I was given an exclusive look at the book, here are some remarkable nuggets:

• Nancy Pelosi arranged a clandestine meeting at the White House with Biden before Chuck Schumer spoke to him to try to convince him to quit the race. She walked away believing she had convinced him to drop out of the race.

• Biden’s sister Valerie Biden Owens, who has been one of his closest advisors, had a hysterical breakdown after the debate, blaming everyone from the debate prep team to the makeup artist for making him look like “Dorian Grey.”

• Donald Trump’s thoughts as the Biden campaign collapsed through conversations with his previous campaign manager Paul Manafort, who despite being convicted, had a much larger role on the second Trump campaign than previously reported.

• How Kamala Harris was strategically preparing for Biden to step down, even as he kept her in the dark.

But one of the most stunning moments in the book is George Clooney’s reaction to Mika Brzezinski when she stated on Morning Joe that Barack Obama authorized him to write the damning New York Times op-ed that urged Biden to step down. The typically cool Clooney lost it.

Whipple writes:

At 10:05 a.m., after Morning Joe had wrapped, one of the show’s producers walked into his Manhattan apartment. His phone started buzzing and he answered. The voice was familiar.

“How the fuck