Robert De Niro says Trump “wants to destroy the country and, eventually, the world”

Robert De Niro appeared this Tuesday at the doors of the New York court where Donald Trump is being criminally tried for document falsification, and He accused the former US president of trying to “destroy the country and, eventually, the world.”

“The Twin Towers fell here (…) We swore that we would not allow terrorists to change our way of life (…) “Donald Trump wants to destroy the city, the country and, eventually, the world,” He stated in an appearance with which he joined the event organized by Joe Biden’s presidential campaign at the entrance to the New York court.

Accompanied by several police officers who stopped the so-called Assault on the Capitol, attacked by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, the famous actor stated that he has become involved with the Democratic campaign because “there is no option” in the face of “cowardly violence by megalomaniac Trump.”

“It is necessary to stop him once and for all (…) If he returns to the White House, our freedoms and democratic guarantees will disappear because he will never leave (the White House),” added the Oscar-winning performer. Robert De Niro.

Trump is a “clown,” according to De Niro

Robert De Niro He continued to harshly attack the former president and reprimand those who support someone who, according to him, went from “filthy real estate scammer” to a “clown” as a candidate.

“We New Yorkers tolerated him when he was just another filthy real estate scammer who posed as a big shot, a cheap Playboy who made his way into the tabloids,” said the protagonist of iconic films such as ‘Taxi Driver’ or ‘Raging’. Bull’.

During De Niro’s speech, A small group of Trumpist protesters were issuing proclamations in favor of the former president a few meters away and one of them even came up to disapprove of the actor’s words.

He also director Robert De Niro praised the work of the police who stopped the coup attempt on January 6 and described those who took over the building as a “mafia” encouraged by “scandalous lies and empty promises.”

To which the protester flatly contradicted him: “They (the Police) are traitors.”

“You can’t (debate) with people like you.” These guys stayed there and fought for us, for you too. They fought for you, friend,” De Niro snapped at the Trump supporter.

The former president’s response

Immediately afterwards, the Trump campaign for the November elections issued a statement calling De Niro “a henchman of the corrupt Biden” and “low IQ”, as well as that his vision represents “definitive proof” that the trial against the Republican is “a witch hunt.”

Michael Fanone, one of the agents in charge of stopping the Assault on the Capitol, spoke after Robert De Niro and explained that police officers protect “Democrats and Republicans alike,” but that “political violence is never acceptable” and that Trump “encourages and supports it.”

The presumptive Republican candidate for the November elections is being tried criminally in this New York court for allegedly falsifying business documents to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels and thus protect his 2016 electoral campaign.

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