Karl Rove Criticizes Biden Campaign for De Niro Press Conference: ‘It Politicized the Trial

Republican political strategist Karl Rove dressed down President Joe Biden’s campaign during a Tuesday morning appearance on Fox News, saying that they had made a “stupid mistake” in bringing in actor Robert De Niro to hold a press conference outside former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money trial.

Rove made the comments during an appearance on “America’s Newsroom,” where he told anchor Dana Perino that the press conference had crossed a line, telegraphing that even the Biden campaign understood the political nature of the prosecution against Trump.

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“Stupid mistake by the Biden campaign! They wanted to get, while all the cameras were there, they wanted to get their moment in the sun. And it was a big mistake,” Rove said. “It politicized the trial — better to have waited.”

“And then what was said, with all due respect to Mr. De Niro, who’s a wonderful, wonderful actor, I mean, really the people up for grabs in this election, are they going to be, ‘Donald Trump wants to destroy New York, destroy America, and destroy the world. And if you reelect him, he’s never going to leave office. He’s going to make himself a tyrant for life,’” Rove continued. “Are those the kind of credible statements that are going to cause people who don’t like Biden and don’t like Trump, but are trying to figure out who to vote for, are they going to cause people to say, ‘Well, geez, you now told me you wanted to destroy our country? Of course he did.’ The people who believe that are already in the Biden camp.”

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Rove went on to say that the campaign should have used De Niro to reach out to voters who were on the fences — and instead, his “over-the-top” anti-Trump screed had only appealed to those who would have voted for Biden regardless.

“This was so over the top as to simply be useless. And what a stupid mistake on the part of the Biden campaign. More reason why Democratic leaders are probably going to be concerned that he’s the nominee, likely nominee of their party,” Rove concluded.

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