Actor Robert DeNiro qualified this Tuesday Donald Trump from “clown” definite destroy democracy An American at the door of a New York court, where money laundering trial against the Republican candidate for the presidency of the North American country.

De Niro, a longtime Democrat, recently made a statement in favor of the president. Joe Bidena representative of the same party attended the presidential election event in front of the parliament building. Manhattan courtroom.

Translator Taxi driver was with two former law enforcement officials, Harry Dunn and Michael Fanon, who were at the Capitol when he was attack by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.

The comments are part of the Biden campaign team’s attempt to exploit media coverage of the trial to his election opponent to spread his own message: Trump is a danger to democracy. The Republican candidate’s campaign called the move a maneuver.

Oscar winner De Niro recalled that Trump’s successful bid for the presidency in 2016 was originally taken as a joke. “We’ve forgotten the lessons of history that showed us other clowns who weren’t taken seriously until they They became brutal dictators“, said.

With Trump we have a second chance and now no one is laughing. The time has come to stop him by driving him out once and for all.

If he returns to the White House, he added, citizens could see the civil liberties they took for granted disappear, as well as the end of elections. “If you come in, I can tell you right now that I’ll never leave“.

Fanone and Dunn gave emotional speeches, saying the violence at the Capitol was caused by Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. booed by a supporter of the former president while pro-Trump protesters chanted in the background.

Republican campaign officials said De Niro’s event showed desperation in Biden’s ranks.

Representative Stephen Cheungwho took the stand shortly after, said the Democratic camp was in “total frenzy mode” over Trump’s resistance despite numerous criminal cases against him.

“Joe Biden is losing nationally,” said Jason Miller, another Trump spokesman. “ President Trump’s numbers continue to grow. And the best thing Biden can do is introduce an outdated actor.”

Review Reuters Last week, the two candidates had an equal number of registered voters.

In his most pointed comments, De Niro spoke about Trump through the lens of New York, a largely Democratic city whose voters know Trump well and categorically rejected in the elections.

“New Yorkers We put up with him when he was a dirty real estate scammer. who pretended to be a big shot, trashy playboy it hit the tabloids,” he said. “Clown (…) Nobody took him seriously. Now they’re taking it seriously“.

While leaving the event, De Niro was harassed by Trump supporters who insulted him and called him a “failed actor”, to which he responded: “They are gangsters. “To hell with them”.

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Reuters