Robert De Niro 's nutty end-of-the-world rant was a political ploy by Team Biden not intended to swing an American audience - or even undecided voters in the swing states - but the 12 jurors deliberating in Donald Trump 's hush money trial, writes Paul Mauro.As the Trump defense team summed up its case in downtown Manhattan, the Biden administration sent an actor — Robert De Niro — outside the courthouse to play political surrogate in a street press conference.
Why would a swing voter in Michigan or Pennsylvania care a lick about what Trump is alleged to be doing to De Niro’s old neighborhood? This is also why De Niro distastefully invoked 9/11 and equated Trump with the al Qaeda terrorists who took down the World Trade Center.De Niro also checked his notes and wedged in a reference to crime, claiming that,"it’s no surprise that the murder rate and other violent crimes peaked under Trump and are falling under Biden".
Bringing that closer to home for Manhattanites, the latest NYPD violent crime numbers for our borough show us up 5.6% so far this year, and for the period roughly covering the current trial, we’re up roughly 15%.
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