De Niro blasts

Robert De Niro blasts Trump in Biden campaign event outside courthouse

The actor was joined by two police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

NATALIE ALLISON

The Biden campaign brought a high-profile supporter for its impromptu press conference outside Trump's trial today: Robert De Niro.

The actor, who recently participated in a new ad campaign for the president, railed against Trump, a fellow New Yorker (“He doesn’t belong in my city. I don’t know where he belongs, but he surely doesn’t belong here.”), and warned that if Trump is elected again to the White House, “he will never leave.”

A nearby car alarm and a crowd of Trump supporters shouting in an adjacent park drowned out much of what De Niro said in person, though his remarks were picked up on microphones for viewers at home.

Former police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, who responded to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack, joined De Niro at the courthouse in speaking out against Trump.

Asked by a reporter why the campaign decided to set up a press conference outside of Trump’s trial — which Biden has previously avoided discussing — Biden spokesperson Michael Tyler said it was merely to get their message out.

“Because you all are here,” he said to the large crowd of reporters and cameras gathered outside the building.

A trio of staffers on Trump’s communications team — Jason Miller, Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt — then launched their own remarks to reporters after the Biden press event. Slamming Biden’s team for their decision to “roll out a washed up actor,” Miller said it was “all an attempt to try to turn around the Biden campaign.”