Robert De Niro headlines bizarre Biden campaign presser outside Trump trial: ‘You’re a f–king idiot’
Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro became the face of the Biden campaign Tuesday, fronting a tumultuous press conference outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s defense team made their closing arguments in the hush money trial.
After weeks of avoiding commenting on the case against Trump outside of jabs on social media, the Biden campaign went big by announcing the press availability “with special guests” on the day of closing arguments, with the jury expected to receive the case on Wednesday.
“We’re not here today because of what’s going on over there,” Biden campaign communication director Michael Tyler disingenuously told reporters, indicating the courthouse “We’re here today because you all are here.”
De Niro, 80, has already narrated ads for the Biden campaign, and told reporters Tuesday that Trump “wants to sow total chaos,” and “destroy not only the city” before expanding his argument to say “eventually he could destroy the whole world.”
“I don’t mean to scare you. No, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you,” he said at one point. “If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted.
“And elections. Forget about it. That’s over. That’s done. If he gets in. I can tell you right now. He will never leave. He will never leave. You know that. He will never leave.”
In between reading from his prepared remarks, which included calling the 77-year-old Trump a “clown,” a “grubby real estate hustler” and a “tyrant”, the “Raging Bull” actor exchanged curses with pro-Trump protesters who chanted “F–k Joe Biden” and “De Niro is a gangster b—-” in an attempt to drown out the presser.
“You’re a f–ing idiot,” the “Goodfellas” star yelled at one protester who accused De Niro of being a “paid actor for the DNC” and suggested the actor had unsavory ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
De Niro was accompanied by law enforcement officers who battled Trump-supporting rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“I came here today to remind Americans of what Donald Trump is capable of and the violence that he unleashed on all of Americans on Jan. 6, 2021,” former DC cop Michael Fanone said.
“Americans need to wake up. This is not a drill,” added former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat in Maryland earlier this year.
Trump’s press team came to the microphones immediately after Biden’s team left, arguing that the president’s campaign showing up at the courthouse shows that the trial amounts to “election interference of the highest order.”
“Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign are in complete freakout mode, and that’s why they’ve gone back on the word and now they’ve gone in bed with a highly conflicted, conflicted judge, and now they’re making a political mockery of this entire thing,” campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said.
Trump 2024 national press secretary Karoline Leavitt added that “actors like Robert De Niro” have “no idea the real problems that people in this city and across this country are facing.
“President Trump is backed by the hard-working men and women of this country, and I cannot help but laugh when Joe Biden’s spokesperson actually came out here and accused President Trump of being a threat to democracy. Joe Biden is the real threat to democracy. He is weaponizing our justice system.”
Polls have consistently shown Trump maintaining a lead over Biden if the election would be held today, despite the ongoing Manhattan criminal case and three other indictments against the former president.