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Israel/Zionism See other Israel/Zionism Articles Title: De Niro Refuses to Take Photo With Schwarzenegger Over Election Politics Robert De Niro made crystal clear which candidate he supports this presidential election at the VIP cocktail reception for the annual Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Western Regional Gala held Thursday at the Beverly Hilton. The event was chaired by producing giant and FIDF national board member Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl. "If you're supporting Trump, I want nothing to do with you," said De Niro, after refusing to pose for a photograph with Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Press did manage to snap a few shots before the kerfuffle.) "Are you voting for Trump?" De Niro kept asking Schwarzenegger, channeling his inner Jake LaMotta as he rebuffed the former California governor's efforts to explain before backing off toward the other side of the room. While Schwarzenegger, a career Republican, publicly tweeted on Oct. 8 that he would NOT be voting for Trump, he still hasn't made clear for whom he will be voting. In the tweet, the actor-turned-politician wrote: "For the first time since I became a citizen in 1983, I will not vote for the Republican candidate for President." "If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem," said De Niro. Larry King, one of the 1,200 guests who attended the sold-out, star-studded event, agreed. "(Not voting) is a vote for Trump," said King. "But if that's the way they feel, I can't tell them to vote. You don't have to vote -- but it's a mistake. You should always pick one of the other." King, who said he cast his first presidential vote for Adlai Stevenson II in 1952, ranks this election cycle as the absolute worst he's ever experienced in his nearly 83 years on the planet. "This is the worst -- and I've covered many of them," said King. "I go back so far, I interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt when her son was mayor of Miami Beach. I was 22. I remember when I told Hillary that I knew Eleanor Roosevelt; she fainted. This is the worst election I've ever seen. Donald has run a terrible campaign. There's a lot of racism and sexism. Hillary has been on the defensive back and forth. Neither one is well liked -- I've never seen anything like this. People are voting against -- not for. You know what I think? Joe Biden would have won this election with 70 percent of the electorate. But you never know how the public is going to vote. Until they go into the booth and pull the lever, you never know. I was a big supporter of Harry Truman. I was only 15. He was supposed to lose -- and he won." Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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