Aging Hollywood legend Robert De Niro is the narrator of the latest Biden campaign ad, painting Donald Trump as a psychologically unstable wannabe “dictator.”
De Niro, who often resorts to a string of expletives to describe Trump, repeated questionable or outright debunked claims about the former president in his voice-over that have nonetheless received widespread coverage and acceptance as truth.
“Trump wants revenge and he’ll stop at nothing to get it,” De Niro says, according to Fox News. “From midnight tweets to drinking bleach, to tear-gassing citizens and staging a photo op, we knew Trump was out of control when he was president.”
Dramatic images of Trump and tense music come together to maximize the ad’s visceral impact.
Outraged conservatives are making their objections known:
The line about “bleach” is a narrative that Democratic Party figures and media people have floated involving the former president encouraging Americans to “inject bleach” during a White House briefing at the height of the pandemic.
Biden himself even claimed that Trump promoted bleach as a treatment option for COVID-19.
However, at the time, Trump referenced an unspecified “disinfectant” that he was learning about which could be injected to combat coronavirus, and never mentioned bleach.
“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?” the then-president said. “As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
The “photo op” narrative was debunked a year after Trump’s infamous walk over to the vandalized St. John’s church, with an Interior Department Inspector General investigation finding that it was necessary to remove Black Lives Matter protesters from Lafayette park on June 1, 2020 in order to install anti-scale fencing to prevent White House grounds from being overrun.
The IG report concluded that the police did not clear Lafayette Square of protesters so that Trump could pose for a photo with a Bible. Instead, Trump happened to walk through the empty space hours later.
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Patrick Houck is an avid political enthusiast based out of the Washington, D.C., metro area. His expertise is in campaigns and the use of targeted messaging to persuade voters. When not combing through the latest news, you can find him enjoying the company of family and friends or pursuing his love of photography.
