Biden campaign holds press conference with Oscar winner and two Capitol officers in first clear foray into ex-president’s legal troubles
It was a scenario that Donald Trump, in his pre-presidential celebrity days, might have relished; as he sat inside a Manhattan courtroom,
Introduced by the Biden campaign communications director, Michael Tyler, De Niro – a vitriolic critic of Trump, who has provided the voiceover for a new 30-second advertisement warning of the perils of his return – adapted to the role with professional aplomb.“This is my neighbourhood, downtown New York City. I grew up here and feel at home in these streets,” he said, before remarking on the strangeness of Trump being in a courtroom across the street, “because he doesn’t belong in my city”.
“That’s why I needed to be involved … in the new Biden-Harris ad, because it shows the violence of Trump,” he said. But arguably the most belittling reference concerned Trump’s taste for political violence, which De Niro dismissed as “a coward’s violence”. “They lied under oath,” said the out-of-camera-shot heckler, who was heard to add: “They’re traitors.”
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