Robert De Niro appeared by surprise in front of the cameras on Tuesday near the New York court to attack Donald Trump, a “clown” who could become a “tyrant”, the actor taking up the cause of Joe Biden in the middle of the presidential campaign .
“This is my neighborhood,” the Hollywood legend said on a patch of sidewalk. “I love this city, I don’t want to destroy it. Donald Trump not only wants to destroy this city, but also the country and, ultimately, he could destroy the world,” fumed this long-time opponent of the former Republican president.
This speech was organized by the campaign team of Democratic President Joe Biden while at the same time, a stone’s throw away, Donald Trump listened to his lawyers plead for his acquittal at his criminal trial.
An intervention obviously intended to capture a moment of media attention for the Democrats, while the Republican billionaire speaks in front of the cameras every day of his trial to denounce a political “witch hunt”.
Calling the Republican candidate a “clown,” Robert de Niro, 80, recalled: “When Trump ran in 2016, he was like a joke, a buffoon running for president. »
But “we have forgotten the lessons of history, which show us that other clowns were not taken seriously, until they became ferocious dictators,” he stressed.
“With Trump, we have a second chance, and no one is laughing anymore. We have a unique opportunity to stop him by voting against him, once and for all,” insisted the actor, who will appear in an ad for the Democrat’s campaign.
“The only way to preserve our freedoms and maintain our humanity is to vote for Joe Biden,” he said in front of a swarm of microphones, while a horn sounded insistently in the street.
Gray shirt, black jacket and sunglasses, the giant of “Taxi Driver” and “Goodfellas” spoke alongside two police officers present during the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, injured during the assault and who have since left the police, are “real heroes”, according to the actor.
Harry Dunn is one of three police officers present that day in Washington who will campaign for Joe Biden for the presidential election in November, his campaign team said on Tuesday.
Donald Trump “continues to support political violence, going so far as to say there will be a ‘massacre’ if he loses the election again and that he will be a dictator from ‘day one’ in office », Alerted Harry Dunn, unsuccessful candidate in the Democratic primaries in Maryland for an elected seat in Congress.