S.E. Cupp Criticizes Biden Campaign for Sending Robert De Niro to Trump Trial: ‘Not a Great Idea’

CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp criticized the Biden campaign for sending Hollywood star Robert De Niro to former President Donald Trump’s New York trial on Tuesday, calling the stunt a “bad idea.”

“This was a bad idea. This entire thing was not a great idea,” reacted Cupp on CNN NewsNight after President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign enlisted De Niro and two police officers from the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots to speak outside Trump’s courtroom:

I get wanting to take advantage of cameras at this spectacle, but this had the impromptu feeling that most Trump rallies have. Like sort of all over the place. We don’t know where it’s going, we don’t know who’s showing up, it could be Kid Rock or a cabinet member, you never know, and that’s what happened here. You had an actor, who’s obviously very angry at Trump, but I don’t know why his opinion would matter more than someone else, and then you have these two heroes who almost gave their lives on January 6 at the insurrection. It was a mismatch and a mixed message and now this actor is in a position to have to defend these police officers. I just didn’t get it.

Cupp argued that campaign surrogates were “best when they have an important story to tell” before adding, “Robert De Niro’s angry at Donald Trump. He’s not a victim of Donald Trump’s, right? He’s going to be fine. There are lots of victims of Donald Trump’s, and if I were Team Biden, I’d bring those people out to tell those stories.”

The CNN commentator proposed several names who would have been a better choice to mobilize, including Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll and Georgia election worker Shaye Moss.

“There are millions of victims of Donald Trump. Robert De Niro isn’t one. I would tell their stories,” she concluded.

Watch above via CNN.