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courtroom where the jury was hearing closing arguments in the hush money trial adinst the presumptive republican presidential nominee this is about 25 >> morning, everybody. good to go? thank you so much for being here. let me say this, first and foremost. we are not here today because of what is going on over there, we are here because you all are here. we are glad you are all here this morning. we are here primarily because of the threat that donald trump to the united states of america and to our democracy. we are grateful to have two brave officers, michael for known and harry dunn, who defended our democracy and capitol against the violent mob trump incited januy 6, 2021. and of course we are happy to have robert de niro, a native new yorker who can spot bs a milelt away and isn't afraid to

call it out. the contrast here pretty much as we speak donald trump is fighting for aking a power nap, and for weeks and months we have seen the red wings of an unhinged, power-hungry -- ramblings of an unhinged, power-hungry, self-c entered man. it is not new for donald trump. it is how he spent his time in the white house. americans will have an opportunity to witness in primetime the contrast between trump, theha agent waiting a self obsessed campaign of wage and retribution, and joe biden, who fights for american servicing of ae would like -- the president has a list of things he would like to talk to trump about if trump shows up.

you will start with -- he will start with why trump, the architect of the repeal of roe v. wade, wants to go even further. he wants to talk about trump's embrace of political violence and the core threats it poses to our democracy. he wantso talk about trump's economic plan and how they made trump and his rire at the expense of working -- rich fridspense of working fami, just like he has his entire life. that is what his campaign will talk about of the course of the next month. we will have trump-pence for all of the above and 6 -- trump answer for all of the above and is extremism on the debate said. an ad narrated by mr. de niro looks at trump's unhinged quest for power. trump poses a unique and growing threat to our fundamental rights and freedoms, our very

democracy, and our economy. the threat is critical clear day, it will remain crystal-clear tomorrow, it will be crystal-clear on the debate stage in atlanta on june 27. so now i'm going to pause and turned it over to robert de niro. robert: thank you. i mean, this is really -- even these people over here are kind of -- it's kind of crazy. it's really crazy in this thing, donald trump has created this. he should be telling them not to do this, but he is just -- he wants tosow total chaos, which he is succeeding in some areas and places to do. anyways, beside all that, this is my neighborhood, downtown new york city. i grew up here and feel at home

in these streets. i feel comfortable. the twin towers fell just over here, just over there. this part of the city was like a but we vowed we would not allow terrorists to change our way of life, and restarted the tribeca festival to bring people back -- we started the tribeca festival to bring people back. i love this city. 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. but we vowed we would not allow terrorists -- i owe this city a lot. and that's why it is so weird that donald trump is just across the street, because he doesn't belong in my city. i don't know where he belongs,

but he certainly doesn't belong here. we new yorkers used to tolerate him when he was another grubby real-estate hustler masquerading as wait playboy pretending to be a spokesman, a spokesperson for himself. he was calling it as himself for himself to for the press into inflating his net worth. abut this city is pretty accommodating. we make room for clowns. we have them all over thegs in the street. we tolerate it, it's part of the city, it's part of the culture. but not a person like trump, who will eventually run the country. that does not work, and we all know that. anyway, we make room for clowns,

to each his own. but no one took him really seriously. they taken seriously now, of course. but around the country, people who didn't know him as we did started to support him. they bought into his bullshit. trump bought their votes with outrageous lies and empty promises. he got the most religious of evangelicals to applaud a singer who bragged about sexual assault -- a sinner who bragged about sexual assault, in just a few blocks from here a jury found him liable for sexual abuse. somehow he got self-styled patriots to support a man who called for terminating the constitution, and on january 6, rallied an angry mob to threaten democracy, leaving death and destruction in its wake. that is why i needed to be

involved and wanted to be involved in the new biden-harris ad, because it shows the violence of trump and reminds us that he has used violence against anyone who stands in the way of his megalomania and. .-- and greed. but it is college violence. you think trump ever threw a punchlf, or took one? this gno way. he directs the mob to do his dirty work for him by making a suggestion. an inference. and his gang grovels and follows his obvious order. it's no surprise that the murder rate and other violent crimes pe2led under -- peaked under

trump, and are falling under biden. now he is promising to use our own military to attack u.s. citizens. that is the tyrant. that's the tryant he is telling us he will be. believe me, he means it. this buffoon running for president. no, never could happen. we forgot the lessons of history that showed us other clowns who weren't taken certainly until they became vicious dictators. with trump, we have a second chance, and no one is laughing now. this is the timeo voting him out once and for all. we don't want to wake up after the election saying,again? my god, what the hell have we done?" we can't have that happen again. yesterday was memorial day.

it's a good time to reflect on how americans fought and died so we may enjoy the freedoms guaranteed to us by a democratic government, a government that as president lincoln said, of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. under trump, this kind of perish from the earth. i don't mean to scare you. no, no wait, maybe i do mean to scare you. 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. if he gets in, i can tell you right now, he will never leave. he will never leave. you know that. he will never leave. what does that mean? is that the country we want to livedo we want him running this

country and saying i'm not leaving, i'm dictator for life? remind supporters of what a danger he is to our lives. this is not a threat. this is a reality. and that's why i have joined the biden-harris campaign, because the only way to preserve our freedoms and hold onto our humanity is to vote for joe biden for president. really, we don't have a choice. on january 6, while republican lawmakers despicably tried to keep the loser trump, the loser trump, in the white house, and trump-inspired insurrectionists stormed the capitol, brave men and women from law enforcement put their lives on the line to

defend this country. our democracy. they are the true heroes. these guys are the true heroes. they stood and put their lives on the line for these■ó lowlife, for trump. they lied under oath. they lied under oath. >> who lied under oath? what are you telling? robert: excuse me? they lied under oath? >> they are traitors. robert: they are traitors? i don't even know how to deal with you, my friend. i don't know how to deal with you. they stood there, they didn't have to come and there were other ones in their group them,a way to get around. not these guys. they stood there and fought, for us, for you. for youweren't fighting for me.

robert: no? they fought for you, buddy. you are able to stand here right now. they are the true heroes. i'm honored to be with these true heroes, officer harry dunn and officer michael fanone. >> i came here today to remind americans of what donald trump is capable of. and the violence that he unleashed on all americans on january 6, 2021. for two decades, i was aer serve citizens of the district of columbia, primarily workion jand

distress calls coming from fellow police officers on the capitolwv■j, as thousands of trp supporters in and brutally assaulted members of law enforcement. that day, i, like many other, hundreds of other d.c. police of put on a uniform and responded to the capitol to assist our brothers and sisters in law enforcement, defending the capitol from a violent armed mob of trump's supporters. these supporters were fueled by trump's lies and allies of his surrogates-- the lies of his surrogates, lies stolen. those same lies have been spewed by donald trump and his surrogates about what happened

to me and so many other police officers on january 6, 2021. that day, i was brutally assaulted. i was pulled from the police line by a man named albuquerquea trump supporter who later pled guilty to his violent assault on me. while being restrained by the violent mob, i was beaten. an individual named kyle young trof my firearm, while chants of "kill him with his own gun" were echoed by other members of the crowd. time, a man from buffalo, new york, stripped me of my badge and police radio,lim other officers. all the while i continued to be beaten, and then stuck with a

taser on my neck by daniel rodriguez, another trump supporter who pled guilty to his violent assault on me. all four of these individuals are self-admitted trump supporters. all four of them committed violent assault on law enforcement. i' representative of thlice officers that were assaulted that day by donald trump's supporters, inspired by his lies. the lies that continue to this day to inspire my fellow americans to turn against their fellow americans, officers. at the end of the day, this election is about donald trump and his vision for the office of the president of the united states, not as p

who answers to the -- to the people who elected him, but as an authoritarian who answers to and serves only himself. thank you. >> ashli babbit was murdered, an unarmed veteran. >> morning. wouldn't be here right now. i would still be at work working at the united states capitol. i appreciate the words by mr. de niro, officer fanone, but anytime i get an opportunity to acknowledge, address, and thank the men and women of the capitol police and the metropolitan police department who served that day to protect our democracy, to protect each

other, to make sure everybody got to go home that night, that is what we fought for that day. the fight for a lot of us did not end on january 6 that evening. the fight still continues now. what happened that day was an attempt to overthrow an election. donald trump our democracy and e safety of communities today. he has encouraged and continues to encourage political violence. we have been called traitors just today. we were all called traitors on january 6 for doing her job. -- our job. and yes, we protected republicans, wemocrats alike. it is not about the story we agre■e with never acceptable. but you have a presidential candidate who champions it, who encourages it, who supports it. we cannot have that.

officer sicknick died the day after january 6 full they said it was because of a stroke, but the events of january 6 caused it. his father said it best -- charles sicknick, "donald trump is the reason my son is dead. he is all abouta÷ himself." because the criminals who attacked our -- he calls the criminals who attacked our capitol patriots. he calls the men who died serving suckers andhe constantle language of and nazi germany, embracing clinical violence, pledging to rule as a dictator on day one. those aren't our talking points, points.ren't left news tag he said it.

americans need to wake up. this is not a drill. mr. de niro said he is not trying to scare you. i just unsuccessfully ran for a lot of people i met out there said they were afraid, scared to see what another trump residency looks like. i try to pride myself on having some type of way to make people feel comfortable, saying some kind of word, hug, look, something, it's going to be ok. i couldn't say that to those individuals. i can't even say that everything is going to be ok, everything is going to be all right. it is going to take us americans at the ballot -- we cannot count on institutions to save us from donald trump. it's going to take us americans of the ballot box. thank you. >> a few questions. >> why did the campaign to set a computer date?

-idecide to come here today. >> because you are all here. we wanted todeep threat donald p presents to democracy. we will present that day in and day out. >> [indiscernible] harry: h-a-r-r-y d-u-n-n. michael: m-i-c-h-a-el f-a-n-o-n-e. >>7p what do you say to republicans who say you arennint run uninvited's record-- on biden's record? >> 800,000 manufactured jobs, the work the president has done to lower the cost of insulin,

the single largest investment to combat climate change, the first bipartisan■n■h gun safety legislation in a generation. the list goes on and on about the historic record of aiken parchment. the fact -- accomplishment. the fact remains that the looming threat of maga extremism stronger since january 6 so we will campaign on the president's record and run against the extremism embodied by donald trump in that building. >> michael, do you really believe that an undecided voter from michigan or wisconsin is paying attention? michael pay attention to the stakes of the selection, and that is what we will do ahead of the debate in september, and that is what we will do from now until election day, making sure voters in states across the country understand the clear choices they have between a fighter in joe biden who wakes up every signal they fighting for them and their families and their communities and donald trump, who is fighting for himself, whether he is here in new york,

in mar-a-lago, on truth social. he is fighting for one person, donald trump. >> do you expect the president to address the trial? >> -- why you guys do this news conference outside the courtroom? michael t.: again, you all are here. sy to talk about the choice of this election when the entire news media is camped out day in and day out. we will talk about the choice voters have in the election and the threat embodied by the men in that building right now. it is a threatma is, threat to l freedoms, fed toocracy, threat to our very way of life. this campaign is going to communicate that in new york, the battleground states, day in, day out, until voters cast their ballots. >> [indiscernible] >> is this weaponization of the justice dart?

>> any media questions? >> you won't answer the real questions? >> [indiscernible] michael t.: stay tuned. >> [indiscernible] -- set a redline for rafah -- michael t.: i would say one thing, the president and his campaign are making sure they approach cflict like this not as a politician, but as commander, making sure that his northstar is american security, global securit m yes, israel hat to defend itself, but not that-n casualties one too many. he has been very clear about that and makes decisions with the national security in mind. that is a stark contrast with the present news it's not building making every single decision based on what is in the best -- person sitting in