this is my neighborhood,
downtown New York City.
I grew up here and feel at home
in these streets.
I feel comfortable.
The Twin Towers fell just over here.
Just over there.
This part of the city
was like a ghost town, but we found
we would not allow terrorists
to change our way of life.
And we started
the Tribeca Festival
to bring people back.
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 could destroy the world.
But we vowed
we would not allow terrorist.
I owe this city a lot.
And that's why it's so weird
that Donald Trump
is just across the street.
Because he doesn't belong in my city.
I don't know where he belongs,
but he shouldn't.
He doesn't belong here.
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 spokesman,
a spokesperson for himself.
He was calling it as himself for 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 in the street.
We tolerate it. It's part of the city.
It's part of the culture.
But not a person like Trump
who'll eventually run the country.
That does not work. And we all know that.
Anyway, we make room for clowns.
To each his own,
but no one takes him
or took him really seriously.
They take him seriously now, of course,
but around the country,
people who didn't know him
as we did started to support him.
They bought into his bullshit.
Trump bought their votes
with outrageous lies and empty promises.
He got the most religious evangelicals
to applaud a sinner
who bragged about sexual assault.
And just a couple of blocks from here,
a jury found him liable for sexual abuse.
Somehow, he even got self-styled
patriots to support
a man
who called
for terminating the constitution.
And on January 6th, rallied an angry mob
to threaten democracy,
leaving death
and destruction in its wake.
That's why I needed to be involved
and wanted to be involved
in the new Biden-Harris, Ed,
because it shows the violence of Trump
and reminds us that he'll use violence
against anyone
who stands in the way of his megalomania
and greed.
But it's a coward's violence.
You think Trump ever
threw a punch himself or took one?
This guy who ran and hid
in the white House bunker
when there were protesters outside?
No way.
He doesn't get blood on his hands.
No he doesn't.
He directs the mob
to do his dirty work for him
by making a suggestion
and inference.
He and his gang
rivals, and follows his obvious order.
It's no surprise that the murder rate
and other violent crimes
peaked under Trump, and a
falling under Biden,
and now he's promising
to use our own military to attack U.S.
citizens.
That's the tyrant.
He's telling us he'll be.
And believe me, he means it.
When Trump ran in 2016,
it was like a joke.
This buffoon
running for president
now never could happen.
We'd forgotten
the lessons of history
that showed us other clowns
who weren't taken
seriously until they became vicious
dictators.
With Trump, we have a second chance
and no one is laughing.
Now this is the time to stop him
by voting him out once and for all.
We don't want to wake up
after the election saying what again?
My God, what the hell have we done?
We can't have that happen
again.
Yesterday was Memorial Day.
It's a good time to reflect
on how Americans fought and died,
so that we may enjoy the freedoms
guaranteed to us
by a democratic government,
a government
that is President Lincoln said
of the people, by the people, for
the people shall not perish
from the earth.
Under Trump, this kind of government
will perish from the earth.
I don't mean to scare you.
No, no, wait.
Maybe I do mean to scare you.
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 all that's done.
If he gets in, I can tell you right now
he will never leave.
He will never leave.
You know that.
He will never leave.
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.
I hope this new ad campaign
campaign reaches
outside the bubble to remind supporters
of what a danger he is to our lives.
This is not a threat.
This is a 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.
Really
do.
We don't have a choice.
On January 6th,
while Republican lawmakers
despicably tried to keep the loser Trump,
the loser Trump in the white House
and Trump inspired
insurrectionists stormed
the Capitol,
brave men and women from law enforcement
put their lives on the line
to defend this country.
Our democracy.
They are the true heroes.
These guys are the true heroes.
They stood
and put their lives on the line
for the low lives, for Trump.
They lied under oath.
Who lied under oath?
What are you telling me?
Those two traitors.
Excuse me?
Those two. Traitor!
They lied under oath. That's right.
What do you say, a traitor?
They're. They're traitors.
You got.
I don't know, I
don't even know how to deal with you,
my friend.
I don't even know how to deal with you.
They stood there.
They didn't have to.
And there were other ones in there
who probably were in with them
a little bit, too.
And they found a way to get around.
Not these guys.
They stood there and fought for us.
But you
for, you know, they weren't fighting for.
No. Yeah.
No, they fought for you, buddy.
You're able to stand right here now.
They are the true heroes.
I'm honored to be
with these two heroes today.
From former Capitol
Police officer Harry Dunn
and former Metropolitan
Police officer Michael Fanone.
Who?
I came here today
to remind Americans of what
Donald Trump is capable of.
And the violence
that he unleashed on all Americans
on January 6th, 2021.
For two decades,
I was a DC police officer
serving the citizens
of the District
of Columbia,
primarily working in narcotics.
On January 6th, 2021,
I heard distress calls coming from fellow
police officers on the Capitol
as thousands of Trump supporters
rush them and brutally assaulted
members of law enforcement
that day.
I, like
many other hundreds
of other DC police officers,
put on a uniform
and responded to the Capitol
to assist our brothers and sisters
in law enforcement
defending the Capitol
from a violent armed mob
of Trump's supporters.
These supporters were fueled
by Trump's loss
and the lives of his surrogates
lost it.
The 2020 election was stolen
and.
Those same lies
had been spewed by Donald Trump
and his surrogates about
what happened to me
and so many other police officers.
On January 6th, 2021.
That day, I was brutally assaulted.
I was pulled from the police line
by a man named Albuquerque Head,
a Trump supporter who later pled guilty
to his violent assault on me
while being restrained
by the violent mob, I was beaten.
An individual named Kyle
Young tried to strip me of my firearm,
while chants of kill him
with his own gun were echoed
by other members of the crowd.
At that time,
Thomas Sibbick, a man from Buffalo,
New York,
stripped me of my badge
and my police radio
my lifeline to call for help
from other officers.
All the while I continue to be beaten
and then struck with a taser on my neck
by Daniel Rodriguez,
another Trump supporter
supporter
who also pled guilty
to his violent assault on me.
All four of these individuals
are self-admitted Trump supporters.
All four of them
committed violent assault
on law enforcement.
I'm just one representative
of the hundreds of police officers
that were assaulted that day
by Donald Trump supporters, inspired
by his loss.
The lies that continue to this day,
to inspire my fellow Americans
to turn against their fellow Americans,
to turn against police officers.
At the end of the day,
this election is about Donald Trump
and his vision
for the office of the president
of the United States,
not as a public servant.
Who answers to the elected
to the people who elected him,
but is an authoritarian
who answers to and serves only himself.
Thank.
Ashley Babbitt was murdered.
An unarmed veteran.
Mourning.
If January 6th didn't happen,
we wouldn't be here right now.
I'd still be at work
working at the United States Capitol.
I appreciate the words by Mr.
DeNiro. Officer Fanone,
but any time I get an opportunity
to acknowledge, address,
and thank
the men and women of the Capitol Police
and the Metropolitan Police Department
who served that day
to protect our democracy,
to protect each other,
to make sure everybody got to go home
that night.
That's what we fought for that day.
The fight for a lot of us didn't
end on January 6th
that evening when we went home.
The fight still continues.
Now, what happened that day
with an attempt to hot to overthrow it?
an election.
Donald Trump
is the greatest threat to our democracy
and the safety of communities
across the country today.
He has encouraged
and continued to encourage
political violence.
We've been called traitors.
Just today,
we were all called
traitors on January 6th
for doing our job.
And yes, we protected Republicans.
We protected Democrats alike.
It's not about the story
that we don't agree with.
Political violence is never acceptable.
But you have a presidential candidate.
You have a presidential candidate
that champions it, that encourages it,
that supports it.
We cannot have that.
Officer Sicknick,
he died the day after January 6th.
They said it was because of a stroke.
But the the events of January 6th
caused him.
His father said it best.
Charles Charles Sicknick.
Trump is the reason why my son is dead.
Trump does
whatever will get him
votes and helps Donald Trump.
He is about himself.
He calls the criminals
who attacked our Capitol patriots.
He calls the men and women
who died serving
and protecting this country.
Suckers and losers.
He constantly echoes
the words of dictators
and invokes
the language of Nazi Germany
embracing political violence,
pledging to rule as a dictator
on day one.
Those aren't our talking points.
Those aren't news
left, news talking points, he said.
It.
Americans need to wake up.
This is not a drill,
Mr. Nero said.
He's not trying to scare you.
When I just
unsuccessfully ran for office.
A lot of people that I met out there
said they were afraid.
They're scared to see what
another Trump presidency looks like.
I try to pry myself
and having some type of way
to make people feel comfortable
saying some kind of a word,
a hug, a look or something.
It's going to be okay.
I couldn't say that to those individuals.
I couldn't say it's going to be okay.
Everything's going to be all right.
We can't count on these
institutions to stop Donald Trump.
It's going to take us Americans
at the ballot box
to defeat him once and for all.
Thank you so much.