Biden Campaign Sends Allies De Niro and First Responders to Trump’s NY Trial to Put Focus on Jan. 6

TIME

President Joe Biden's campaign on Tuesday showed up outside former President Donald Trump's New York City criminal hush money trial in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

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00:00When Trump ran in 2016, it was like a joke.

00:06This buffoon running for president, no, never could happen.

00:10We'd forgotten the lessons of history that showed us other clowns who weren't taken seriously

00:16until they became vicious dictators.

00:19With Trump, we have a second chance and no one is laughing now.

00:25This is the time to stop him by voting him out once and for all.

00:31We don't want to wake up after the election saying, what, again?

00:35My God, what the hell have we done?

00:39We can't have that happen again.

00:42I don't mean to scare you.

00:43No, no, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you.

00:46If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take

00:52for granted.

00:54When elections, forget about it.

00:56That's over.

00:57That's done.

00:58If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave.

01:04He will never leave.

01:06You know that.

01:08He will never leave.

01:10We want him running this country and saying, I'm not leaving, I'm dictator for life.

01:20I hope this new ad campaign reaches outside the bubble to remind supporters of what a

01:26danger he is to our lives.

01:30This is not a threat.

01:32This is a reality.

01:35And that's why I've joined the Biden-Harris campaign, because the only way to preserve

01:39our freedoms and hold on to our humanity is to vote for Joe Biden for president.

01:46I'm just one representative of the hundreds of police officers that were assaulted that

01:51day by Donald Trump supporters, inspired by his lies.

01:59The lies that continue to this day to inspire my fellow Americans to turn against their

02:06fellow Americans, to turn against police officers.

02:17At the end of the day, this election is about Donald Trump and his vision for the office

02:24of the president of the United States, not as a public servant who answers to the elected,

02:34to the people who elected him, but as an authoritarian who answers to and serves only himself.

02:41The fight for a lot of us didn't end on January 6th, that evening when we went home.

02:45The fight still continues now.

02:47What happened that day was an attempt to halt, to overthrow an election.

02:55Donald Trump is the greatest threat to our democracy and the safety of communities across

02:59the country today.

03:00He has encouraged and continued to encourage political violence.

03:06We've been called traitors just today.

03:09We were all called traitors on January 6th for doing our job.

03:13And yes, we protected Republicans.

03:15We protected Democrats alike.

03:17It's not about the story that we don't agree with.

03:20Political violence is never acceptable, but you have a presidential candidate, you have

03:24a presidential candidate that champions it, that encourages it, that supports it.

03:30We cannot have that.

03:31Americans need to wake up.

03:32This is not a drill.

03:34Mr. Naro said he's not trying to scare you.

03:36I just unsuccessfully ran for office.

03:41A lot of people that I met out there said they were afraid.

03:46They were scared to see what another Trump presidency looks like.

03:49I try to pride myself in having some type of way to make people feel comfortable saying

03:53some kind of a word, a hug, a look or something.

03:58It's going to be okay.

04:00I couldn't say that to those individuals.

04:02I couldn't say it's going to be okay.

04:04Everything's going to be all right.

04:07We can't count on these institutions to stop Donald Trump.

04:11It's going to take us Americans at the ballot box to defeat him once and for all.

04:16After months of saying the politics had nothing to do with this trial, they showed up and

04:23made a campaign event out of a lower Manhattan trial day for President Trump.

04:29In fact, Biden's cronies had a printed out campaign sign saying Biden-Harris.

04:36So why the change?

04:37Why is Joe Biden now making this a campaign event after months of weaponizing the legal

04:43system against President Trump?

04:46Because Joe Biden's numbers are in the tank and the best that Biden can do is roll out

04:51a washed up actor.

04:53And don't worry, my remarks will be shorter than the Irishman.

04:56I won't make you suffer for three hours, but the best they can do is roll out a washed

05:00up actor.

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