{"id":34059,"date":"2024-05-30T12:56:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34059"},"modified":"2024-05-30T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:56:44","slug":"you-are-gangsters-robert-de-niro-clashes-with-pro-trump-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/you-are-gangsters-robert-de-niro-clashes-with-pro-trump-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018YOU ARE GANGSTERS\u2019: ROBERT DE NIRO CLASHES WITH PRO-TRUMP PROTESTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Katherine Koretski and Amanda Terkel\/NBC News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rsn.org\/images\/001\/056490-robert-de-niro-052924.jpg\" alt=\"'You Are Gangsters': Robert De Niro Clashes With Pro-Trump Protesters\"><strong>Robert De Niro speaks in support of U.S. President Joe Biden outside Manhattan Criminal Court. The actor branded Donald Trump a dangerous<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>29 may 24<\/strong>&nbsp;(RSN.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong><em>After a news conference outside the Manhattan courtroom where Trump is on trial, De Niro mixed it up with a crowd of protesters who called him a \u201clittle punk\u201d whose \u201cmovies suck.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s campaign held a news conference outside the Manhattan courtroom where&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/live-blog\/trump-trial-live-updates-closing-statements-hush-money-case-rcna153996\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump is on trial<\/a>&nbsp;in his hush money case, with actor Robert De Niro and&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/biden-campaign-taps-jan-6-officers-campaign-battleground-states-ahead-rcna154275\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two officers who defended the Capitol<\/a>&nbsp;from the Jan. 6 mob in 2021 warning about the dangers of re-electing the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 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. \u2026 I love this city. I don\u2019t want to destroy it. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city but the country, and eventually he can destroy the world,\u201d De Niro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t mean to scare you. No, no, wait \u2014 maybe I do mean to scare you,\u201d De Niro continued. \u201cIf Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted. And elections \u2014 forget about it. That\u2019s over; that\u2019s done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robert De Niro lambasts Donald Trump as &#039;a clown&#039; outside his hush money trial\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_gW_Zc8VOmw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After the news conference, on the way back to his car, De Niro mixed it up with some pro-Trump protesters, who yelled that he\u2019s a \u201cwannabe,\u201d \u201cpaid sell-out\u201d to the Democratic National Committee, \u201cnobody\u201d and a \u201clittle punk\u201d whose \u201cmovies suck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not going to intimidate,\u201d De Niro replied. \u201cThat\u2019s what Trump does. \u2026 We are going to fight back. We\u2019re trying to be gentlemen in this world, the Democrats. You are gangsters. You are gangsters!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re washed up,\u201d a protester yelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cF\u2014 you,\u201d De Niro shot back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump campaign also had a news conference mocking the Biden campaign\u2019s enlistment of De Niro. Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt went after \u201celitist out-of-touch Hollywood actors like Robert De Niro who have no idea the real problems that people in this city and across this country are facing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe best that Biden can do is roll out a washed-up actor,\u201d Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, the Biden campaign&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/robert-de-niro-narrates-biden-campaign-ad-bashing-trump-rcna154013\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released a new ad<\/a>&nbsp;featuring De Niro \u2014 who was nominated this year for an Oscar for the movie \u201cKillers of the Flower Moon\u201d \u2014 that will air on television and digital platforms across battleground states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the scuffle Tuesday, there was at least one De Niro fan in the crowd who yelled out, \u201cI loved you in \u2018Taxi Driver\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Koretski and Amanda Terkel\/NBC News Robert De Niro speaks in support of U.S. President Joe Biden outside Manhattan Criminal Court. The actor branded Donald Trump a dangerous 29 may 24&nbsp;(RSN.org) After a news conference outside the Manhattan courtroom where Trump is on trial, De Niro mixed it up with&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/you-are-gangsters-robert-de-niro-clashes-with-pro-trump-protesters\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34061,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34059\/revisions\/34061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}