Biden campaign sends allies De Niro and first responders to Trump’s NY trial to keep focus on Jan. 6

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s campaign has showed up outside former President Donald Trump’s New York City criminal hush money trial in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. The Democratic president’s team on Tuesday was looking to capitalize on the Trump trial’s drama-filled closing moments, sending actor Robert De Niro and some of the Capitol first responders. Biden’s team had largely ignored the trial since it began six weeks ago. De Niro says Trump wants to destroy New York and the country and “could destroy the world.” Trump’s team says the Democratic president’s event proves the Republican former president’s argument that his prosecution was politically motivated.