Robert De Niro Reacts To Donald Trump Verdict: “This Never Should Have Gotten To This Stage”

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Robert De Niro — who made a surprise campaign appearance for Joe Biden outside of Donald Trump‘s trial just two days before today’s guilty verdict in the hush money case — reacted to the news by saying “justice was served.” While promoting his new movie Ezra Thursday in New York City, the actor told Variety how “this never should have gotten to this stage.

I don’t want to be talking, but I am so upset by it. I have to say something. This is my country. This guy wants to destroy it.

Period. He’s crazy.” A jury in New York City on Thursday found the former president guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a conspiracy to keep a potential sex scandal from derailing his first presidential campaign.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, just days before the start of the Republican National Convention. When asked if he thought this could affect the presidential election, De Niro said, “I think it would.” The actor went on to admit that he has some fears about his safety, especially since he’s been so vocal about Trump. “You think about that.