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Donald Trump has slammed Robert De Niro as a "pathetic" actor with "Trump derangement syndrome" after he showed up outside the former president's hush money trial.
De Niro and two January 6 Capitol-defending officers, including Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, spoke outside the courtroom as the Goodfellas actor warned Trump "could destroy the world" if he is reelected. “I don’t mean to scare you. No, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you,” De Niro told reporters.
“If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted.” The actor cast himself as the true New Yorker and mocked Trump’s history of sometimes-unsuccessful business ventures and self-promotion, saying Trump was looking to “destroy” the city.
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Trump has slammed the "Goodfellas" actor (Getty Images)De Niro said: “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 could destroy the world.”
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The criticism of the former president led to him hitting back at De Niro claiming he suffered from "Trump derangement syndrome". He wrote on Truth Social: "I never knew how small, both mentally and physically, Wacko Former Actor Robert De Niro was. Today, De Niro, who suffers from an incurable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, commonly known in the medical community as TDS, was met, outside the Courthouse, with a force far greater than the Radical Left - MAGA. Robert, whose movies, artistry, and brand have gone WAY DOWN IN VALUE since he entered the political arena at the request of Crooked Joe Biden, looked so pathetic and sad out there. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio!!!"
Former Washington, D.C., police officer Michael Fanone and former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn spoke of their personal experiences on January 6, with Fanone describing his injuries suffered at the hands of the mob of Trump supporters seeking to halt Congress’ certification of Biden’s 2020 presidential victory.
The criticism of the former president led to him hitting back at De Niro claiming he suffered from "Trump derangement syndrome" (AFP via Getty Images)“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 January 6, 2021,” Fanone said. The two former officers were also witnesses during a congressional investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers were beaten and bloodied in the attack by Trump supporters, who descended after a rally and smashed into the Capitol while Trump remained silent for hours. “Americans need to wake up. This is not a drill,” said Dunn, a former Capitol police officer who ran unsuccessfully for office in Maryland.
Biden campaign turns up at Trump's trial with Robert De Niro and Capitol police officer Harry Dunn (Fox News)“We can’t count on these institutions to stop Donald Trump,” he added. “It’s going to take us Americans at the ballot box to defeat him once and for all.”
Trump’s campaign staffers held their own news conference at the same spot outside the courthouse to respond to De Niro, the Jan. 6 officers and the Biden campaign. Trump’s senior campaign adviser, Jason Miller, called De Niro — who won Oscars for his roles in The Godfather: Part II and Raging Bull — “a washed-up actor” and said the Biden news conference proved Trump’s arguments that the trial, like the others the former president is facing, was motivated by politics.
“After months of saying politics had nothing to do with this trial, they showed up and made a campaign event out of a lower Manhattan trial day for President Trump,” Miller said. Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s press secretary, called the Biden campaign “desperate and failing” and “pathetic” and said its event outside the trial was “a full-blown concession that this trial is a witch hunt that comes from the top.”