Robert De Niro celebrates Trump’s conviction: ‘Justice was served’

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Robert De Niro took swing at Donald Trump after the former U.S. president was found guilty in his Stormy Daniels hush money case.

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“Justice has been served,” De Niro told Page Six on the red carpet for his new film Ezra Thursday night. 

But with Trump expected to be the Republican nominee in the coming election, De Niro made sure not to count the businessman out of the running to make a return to the White House. “It’s not over till it’s over.”

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When Variety caught up with the two-time Oscar winner the same night, De Niro said: “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.”

De Niro, who stumped for President Joe Biden outside the Manhattan courtroom that heard the hush money trial, got into a shouting match with pro-Trump supporters earlier this week.

“This is not a threat. This is our reality. And that’s why I’ve joined the Biden-Harris campaign, because the only way to preserve our freedoms and hold on to our humanity is to vote for Joe Biden for president,” De Niro, 80, said of Trump on Tuesday. 

“The Twin Towers fell just over here, just over there. This part of the city was like a ghost town, but we vowed we would not allow terrorists to change our way of life. … I love this city. I don’t want to destroy it. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city, but the country, and eventually he can destroy the world,” De Niro said as he was joined by two officers — Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone — who defended the Capitol from the Jan. 6 mob in 2021.

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“I don’t mean to scare you. No, no, wait — maybe I do mean to scare you,” De Niro continued. “If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted. And elections — forget about it. That’s over, that’s done.”

De Niro warned that if Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year’s U.S. election, wins “he will never leave.”

“If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave,” De Niro seethed. “What does that mean? Is that the country we want to live in? Do we want him running this country and saying I’m not leaving? I’m dictator for life.”

As a horn blared in the background, De Niro called Trump a “loser” and said he hoped Biden’s new ad campaign “reaches outside the bubble to remind supporters of what a danger (Trump) is to our lives.”

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In footage shared on X, De Niro said Trump “doesn’t belong in my city.”

“I don’t know where he belongs, but he certainly doesn’t belong here,” De Niro said. “We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot. A two-bit playboy lying his way into the tabloids. Pretending to be a spokesperson for himself. He was calling for himself, as himself, to fool the press into inflating his net worth. A clown. But this city is pretty accommodating. We make room for clowns. We have them all over the city, people who do crazy things … we tolerate it. It’s part of the culture. But (from) not a person like Trump who will eventually run the country. That does not work, and we all know that.”

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But after his speech ended, De Niro got into a war of words with pro-Trump protesters, who called him a “punk” and said his “movies suck.”

“You’re not going to intimidate me,” De Niro fired back. “That’s what Trump does. … We are going to fight back. We’re trying to be gentlemen in this world, the Democrats. You are gangsters. You are gangsters!”

“You’re washed up,” a protester yelled.

“F— you,” De Niro fired back.

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On his Truth Social platform, Trump took a swipe at De Niro, who he said “suffers from an incurable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”

“I never knew how small, both mentally and physically, Wacko Former Actor Robert De Niro was,” Trump posted after De Niro’s rant went viral.

“Robert, whose movies, artistry, and brand have gone WAY DOWN IN VALUE since he entered the political arena at the request of Crooked Joe Biden, looked so pathetic and sad out there,” Trump said. “Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio!!!”

Outside the Manhattan courthouse Friday, Trump argued the verdict was driven by politics and dismissed the severity of the allegations that had been brought against him after he was found guilty of conspiring to cover up an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Daniels by paying her $130,000 and then falsifying records to claim it as a legal expense.

“It’s not hush money. It’s a nondisclosure agreement, totally legal, totally common,” he said, adding, “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone.”

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