Robert De Niro attends Bleeker Street's "Ezra" New York Premiere at DGA Theater on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
De Niro said he thinks the outcome would affect the presidential election, but did not say how, Variety reports.
"I would think it would," De Niro said.
"This never should have gotten to this stage," he continued. "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 and Trump have spatted for years, with the actor holding a chaotic press conference on Tuesday outside a Manhattan courthouse where he claimed that Trump "wants to destroy" New York City and the nation and eventually could destroy the entire world. Trump shot back on Truth Social, labeling De Niro as "pathetic" and a "wacko."
ROBERT DE NIRO'S 'OVER-THE-TOP' TIRADE WAS A 'STUPID MISTAKE' BY THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN: KARL ROVE
Former President Trump arrives to Trump Tower on Thursday, May 30, 2024 after being found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)
The payments to Daniels were first revealed in January 2018 in a Wall Street Journal report that said Cohen and Daniels’ lawyer negotiated a nondisclosure agreement to prevent her from publicly discussing the supposed sexual encounter with Trump.
At the time, though, Cohen, Trump and even Daniels denied the arrangement.
"Ezra" is a comedy drama where De Niro plays the grandfather of a stand-up comedian who has a child with autism.
Fox News' Jamie Joseph and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
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