Director Steven Spielberg, a grasp of dramatic scenes on the seashores of Normandy, helped put together President Joe Biden for his speech at Pointe du Hoc.
Spielberg was within the room on the Resort Intercontinental in Paris on Friday morning when Biden was doing his remaining run by way of and prep for what the White Home billed as a serious speech on democracy, in accordance with a supply with information of the preparations.
The White Home didn’t reply to inquiries from DailyMail.com on why Spielberg was within the room and whether or not or not he was compensated for his recommendation. Spielberg’s publicist additionally didn’t reply.
Spielberg can also be working with the Democratic Nationwide Committee on technique for August’s nationwide conference, the place Biden will formally settle for the get together’s presidential nomination.
He is already been in conferences with get together officers the place he is supplied recommendation on the easiest way to inform Biden’s story and description his imaginative and prescient for his second time period.
Steven Spielberg was in Normandy on Thursday for the eightieth anniversary of D-Day and he helped Joe Biden on Friday put together for his speech at Pointe du Hoc
Spielberg is a longtime supporter of the president’s and appeared at a fundraiser with him in Los Angeles in December. Spielberg’s good friend and former DreamWorks accomplice Jeffrey Katzenberg is a co-chair of Biden’s re-election marketing campaign.
The director was in France for Thursday’s eightieth anniversary occasion for D-Day on the American Cemetery in Normandy. Actor Tom Hanks was additionally current.
The 2 males additionally met with a number of D-Day veterans who had been there for the celebration after which they went out to dinner with their wives in Paris on Thursday night.
Neither man attended Biden’s speech on democracy on Friday, which the president gave on the identical spot Ronald Reagan gave his well-known ‘Boys of Pointe Du Hoc’ speech on June sixth, 1984.
Spielberg is a proficient story-teller with an awesome eye and he is made a number of items about World Conflict II and the D-Day invasion, together with ‘Saving Non-public Ryan’ and ‘Band of Brothers.’
He has received two Academy Awards for Greatest Director for ‘Saving Non-public Ryan’ and ‘Schindler’s Record.’
Biden’s speech, which lasted about 11 minutes, was picturesque. The president spoke from the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, atop the identical German bunker from the place Reagan spoke.
Behind him was the English Channel and the Rangers Memorial, with three wreaths at his base. Earlier than he spoke, Biden paid his respects on the memorial, standing earlier than it and bowing his head.
On both aspect of Biden had been the rocky seashores of Normandy that proceed the 100-foot excessive cliffs that Military Rangers scaled 80 years in the past whereas beneath heavy hearth from German weapons.
The grounds across the memorial are dotted with 50 toes craters, the stays of the bombs British and American forces dropped forward of the Allied invasion.
Biden arrived like a film star to talk to the gang of 150 invited friends.
The president flew over the positioning on Marine One forward of his arrival, coming in over the water and circling the cliffs beneath.
President Biden gave his speech within the picturesque spot on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc
In his remarks, Biden paid tribute to US rangers who climbed the cliffs, noting the unhappy reality that each one of them have handed away.
However he famous: ‘Due to them the battle turned. They stood towards Hitler’s aggression. Does anybody doubt that they’d need America to face up towards Putin’s aggression right here in Europe at the moment?’
‘American democracy asks the toughest of issues, to imagine that we’re a part of one thing larger than ourselves…That is what the rangers at Pointe du Hoc did, that is what they determined, that is what each soldier and each Marine who stormed this seashores determined,’ he added.
