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CV NEWS FEED // Actor Dennis Quaid cited the “weaponization” of the American justice system to explain his decision to vote for former President Donald Trump in November.
“I think I’m gonna vote for [Trump] … in the next election,” Quaid said during an interview with Piers Morgan on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” Monday.
Morgan asked the award-winning actor if he was ready for the “blowback” that “inevitably comes” with being a Trump supporter in Hollywood.
Quaid answered: “I think in this election everybody’s got to … take a side.”
“It just makes sense,” Quaid continued. He specified that he was “ready not to vote for Trump” until he saw “a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our Constitution,” which he called “more than politics.”
The actor clarified that he was referring to the numerous ongoing legal accusations levied against the former president, mostly by Democrats.
“Trump is the most investigat[ed] person probably in the history of the world,” Quaid said. “And they haven’t been able to really get him.”
“People might call [Trump] an a******, but he’s my a******,” added Quaid.
Quaid is set to play the nation’s 40th president, Ronald Reagan, in an upcoming biopic that premieres in theaters on August 30.
The actor has in the past identified himself as an independent voter.
“I don’t give myself to any party or ism,” Quaid told The New York Post in 2018. “I don’t march lock step with anything or anybody except for God and the values my mom taught me back in Texas.”
“So if a president does great things I can acknowledge that no matter his party,” he added at the time. “I’ve voted for candidates from both parties and I’m a registered independent.”
Quaid is not the only A-list actor to recently weigh in on Trump and the upcoming presidential election.
Megastar Robert De Niro made headlines after he spoke outside the New York City courthouse on Tuesday – the courthouse where one of the trials in which Trump is currently embroiled was playing out.
De Niro’s speech was part of a press conference called by the struggling re-election campaign of President Joe Biden.
The actor and Biden surrogate claimed that Trump “wants to sow total chaos.”
“I don’t mean to scare you. No no, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you,” De Niro said. “If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss away these freedoms that we take for granted. And elections – forget about it. [Trump] will never leave.”
