Exploiting Trump-hating Oscar-winning actor Robert de Niro, 80, in a $14 million ad buy before the first debate June 27, Democrats plan to go all out in battleground states where 81-year-old Joe Biden lags behind 77-year-old former President Donald Trump. De Niro goes after Trump with all the Democrat talking points, claiming that Trump wants to end democracy and promote right wing violence, the same type that showed up Jan. 6, 2021 in the so-called Capitol insurrection. Democrats plan to hit Trump hard, mostly because Biden plays catch up before the first debate, placing a lot of hope on landing a knockout blow on Trump, known to get too contentious in debating Biden. Democrats think using De Niro gives the arguments against Trump credibility when the near 81-year-old actor has a few screws loose himself, father of a one-year child at near 81.
No one knows why De Niro has so much distaste for Trump but his history of playing mafia bosses in his movie career should remind everyone that he’s no shrinking violet. “Now he’s running again—this time, threatening to be a dictator, to terminate the Constitution,” De Niro said in a 30-second video ad, saying Trump promised a “bloodbath” if he loses the election. Democrats know that the “bloodbath” remark had to do with the U.S. auto industry, eaten alive by foreign competitors in a past Trump speech. But all stops have been pulled by Democrats in the run-up to the first debate. White House spin doctors have a big task managing Biden’s known memory lapses and cognitive impairments, something they fear could come out in a face-to-face debate with Trump.
Democrats and De Niro know that Trump was in office for four years and nothing happened to the U.S. Constitution, some would argue it was stronger than ever.”Trump wants revenge,” De Niro said, “and will stop at nothing to get it,” telling more insulting lies about what life would be like under a new Trump presidency. On Day One, Trump plans on ending the reckless, costly and destructive Ukraine War that has turned the Kremlin into a mortal enemy of the United States. Since Biden took office, he ended generations of diplomacy, détente and arms control with the Russia Federation, the first president in modern U.S. history to go to war against the Kremlin. Trump sees the Ukraine War as fueling today’s runaway inflation, but, more importantly, pushing the world to WW IIII, possibly nuclear war. Yet De Niro paints Trump as a menace to the White House.
Biden has done no better with Communist China, promising in 2022 to send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if Beijing decides to invade Taiwan. Biden infuriated 70-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping, violating the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, signed into law by former President Jimmy Carter, forcing the U.S. to recognize only one China, the one in Beijing. Biden also violated the provision that ended the 1954 Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, requiring the U.S. to defer, on all matters related to Taiwan, to Beijing. Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin in Ukraine drove Russia and China into an economic, military and strategic alliance, realigning the world axis, now pitting the U.S. against Russia and China. De Niro says Trump is a threat to democracy, what does he think Biden has done turning Russia and China into mortal enemies of the United States?
White House spin doctors fear that Biden enters the June 27 debate with great public skepticism over his fitness to serve another four years in office. De Niro’s ad is one of the most egregious because of its propaganda value, hoping the well-known actor has credibility with voters in swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all will determine the 2024 Electoral College vote count. Biden’s campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon pulls out all the stops before the first debate, thinking that she must dampen expectations on the debate stage by spreading the most pernicious propaganda and disinformation about Trump, including telling voters that Trump wanted to inject bleach to treat the deadly novel Coronavirus. Trump never urged any such thing only joked about various approaches tossed around by his Covid-19 team.
O’Malley Dillon wants to blame Trump for the Supreme Court ending Roe v. Wade June 22, 2024, hoping to get the women’s vote against Trump. Yet what Democrats don’t get about the Supreme Court ending Roe v. Wade, it was primarily driving by pro-life women, not men, certainly not Trump. Trump “attacks our democracy, continues to embrace political violence, and spreads conspiracies about the election he lost,” De Niro said in his 30-second spot ad. When violence sweeps American streets driven by Black Lives Matter and other anarchist groups, De Niro wants to blame Trump, but Trump is the law-and-order candidate. Whatever happened on Jan. 6, it was not planned and orchestrated by Trump, something claimed by Democrats looking to discredit Trump. O’Malley Dillon wants to tie Trump to the June 12, 2016 Pulse Night Club massacre, before Trump was president.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
