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Robert De Niro, at a press conference across the street from the Manhattan courthouse, says voters have a second chance to make sure Donald Trump is not elected to the White House again.
“We don’t want to wake up after the election saying ‘What again? My God, what the hell have we done?’” the actor told reporters.
If Trump gets into the White House, “he will never leave”, he goes on.
Is that the country we want to live in? Do we want him running this country and saying ‘I’m not leaving, I’m dictator for life’?
“This is not a threat. This is a reality,” De Niro says, adding that the reason he joined the Biden-Harris campaign is “because the only way to preserve our freedoms and hold on to our humanity is to vote for Joe Biden for president”.
Behind De Niro stood Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, two law enforcement officers who defended the US Capitol on January 6.
“These guys are the true heroes,” De Niro says. “They stood and put their lives on the line to defend this county and our democracy.”
When a heckler interrupts by saying the two officers “lied under oath”, De Niro snaps back that “I don’t even know how to deal with you” and says he is “honored” to be with Dunn and Fanone today.
'Trump could destroy the world', says Robert De Niro outside courthouse
Just across the street from the courthouse, the Biden campaign is holding a press conference including the actor Robert De Niro.
De Niro says downtown New York city is his neighborhood. “I grew up here and feel at home in the streets … I love the city.”
He says the Twin Towers “fell just over there”, adding that we vowed “we will not allow terrorists to change our way of life.”
Donald Trump “wants to sow total chaos”, De Niro says, arguing that the former president is a “tyrant”.
Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city, but the country and eventually he could destroy the world.
The former president “does not belong in my city. I don’t know where he belongs, but he certainly doesn’t belong here,” he says, adding that Trump is a “grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot”.
De Niro says he became involved with the Biden Harris campaign to remind people that Trump will “use violence against anyone who stands in the way of his megalomania and greed.” He adds:
Yesterday was Memorial Day. It’s a good time to reflect on how Americans fought and died so that we may enjoy the freedoms guaranteed to us by a democratic government … Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth. If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted."
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