NEW YORK – President Joe Biden’s campaign held a press conference outside a Manhattan courtroom Donald Trump is on trial in his hush money case, with actor Robert De Niro and Two officers defending the Capitol Warning about the dangers of the January 6 mafia re-election of the former president in 2021.
“The Twin Towers fell right here, right there. This part of the city was like a ghost town, but we vowed not to let terrorists change the way we live… I love this city. I” Donald Trump, who doesn’t want to destroy it, not just the city , he wants to destroy the country and eventually he can destroy the world,” said De Niro.
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“I’m not going to scare you. No, no, wait — maybe I’m going to,” De Niro said. “If Trump gets back into the White House, you can say goodbye to these freedoms that we all take for granted. And the election — forget it. It’s over, it’s over. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, it’s never going to happen. Let it go.”
After the press conference, on his way back to his car, De Niro mixed it up with some pro-Trump protesters, who shouted that he was “reluctant,” a “nobody” and a “paid sellout” to the Democratic National Committee. “little punk” whose “movies are bad”.
“You don’t mean to scare,” De Niro said. “This is what Trump is doing… We’re going to fight it. We’re trying to be gentlemen in this world, Democrats. You’re gangsters. You’re gangsters!”
“You’re washed up,” shouted the protester.
“F— you,” De Niro responded.
The Trump campaign also held a press conference mocking the Biden campaign’s De Niro. Press secretary Caroline Leavitt went after “elitist Hollywood actors like Robert De Niro who are ignorant of the real issues facing people in this city and this country.”
“The best thing Biden can do is hire a dirty actor,” said Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign.
On Friday, the Biden campaign released a new ad The film, which stars De Niro, who was nominated for an Oscar this year for Killers of the Flower Moon, will be broadcast on television and digital platforms in the war zones.
There was at least one De Niro fan in the crowd at Tuesday’s standoff: “I loved you in Taxi Driver!”
Katherine Koretsky reported from New York and Amanda Terkel reported from Washington
Isabelle Schmeler contributed.