Actor Robert De Niro chatted with Joy Reid this morning and, as usual, he didn’t hold back any of his blunt assessments of Trump.
De Niro thought it vitally important to go forward with impeachment. “You just gotta move forward and take our chances,” De Niro said, even if it gives Trump more ammunition later. “He has done something wrong and he has to pay for that. He has to be put on notice, pay for it even if the Republicans will not finally go through with impeaching him.”
Reid and De Niro were puzzled as to why anybody would be enamored of and/or afraid of Trump’s gangster-like behavior.
But De Niro raised a frightening scenario of someone more capably sinister than “fake president” and “genuine loser” Trump following him into the White House and building on his precedents..