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De Niro Calls Trump “A Sick Person…A Monster,” Warns Of Parallels To Hitler & Nazi Germany
"When I was a kid I'd say, 'Hitler, it's a nightmare. It never would happen [here].' But now I see it's possible," says the Oscar winner of a second Trump term.
After his years-long litany of protestations against Donald Trump, Oscar-winner Robert De Niro tried to be more measured, but even more urgent, in his criticism of the former president this week. There’s nothing about him — there’s not one redeeming thing in him that I can see.” (Note that De Niro did agree to play William Hale in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, whom he called “ a sociopath.” Trump, it seems, is beyond the pale.) To those who would hold their noses and vote for Trump despite obvious failings, the actor said, “I don’t think they understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes president [again].
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