'A coward's violence': Robert De Niro trolls Trump outside hush-money trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted.
45% : 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".
42% : 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.
38% : De Niro invoked the lessons of Monday's Memorial Day holiday, held to celebrate the US's fallen military heroes, and quoted Abraham Lincoln in saying they had died so that "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth".Stepping back into Hollywood gangland rhetoric, De Niro warned: "Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth.
34% : Biden campaign holds press conference with Oscar winner and two Capitol officers in first clear foray into ex-president's legal troublesIt was a scenario that Donald Trump, in his pre-presidential celebrity days, might have relished; as he sat inside a Manhattan courtroom, Robert De Niro was waiting outside.
25% : But now the stakes had been raised and Trump, De Niro explained, had a vision of dictatorial power that had prompted him to step into the political arena, citing the mob violence from Trump's supporters that accompanied the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
24% : But arguably the most belittling reference concerned Trump's taste for political violence, which De Niro dismissed as "a coward's violence".
22% : "You think Trump ever threw a punch himself or took one?" he asked.
19% : "That's why I needed to be involved ... in the new Biden-Harris ad, because it shows the violence of Trump," he said.
14% : All had been "inspired by lies" told by Trump, he said.

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