Robert De Niro took swing at Donald Trump after the former U.S. president was found guilty in his Stormy Daniels hush money case.
When caught up with the two-time Oscar winner the same night, De Niro said: “The Twin Towers fell just over here, just over there. This part of the city was like a ghost town, but we vowed we would not allow terrorists to change our way of life. .
.. I love this city.
I don’t want to destroy it. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city, but the country, and eventually he can destroy the world,” De Niro said as he was joined by two officers — Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone — who defended the Capitol from the Jan. 6 mob in 2021.
“I don’t mean to scare you. No, no, wait — maybe I do mean to scare you,” De Niro continued. “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.” De Niro warned that if Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year’s U.
S. election, wins “he will never leave.” “If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave,” De Niro seethed.
“What does that mean? 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.” As a horn blared in the background, De Niro called Trump a “loser” and said he hoped Biden’s new ad campaign “reaches outside the bubble to remind supporters of what .
