“I’m not there to give a major 45-minute policy address”, Giuliani told the New York Daily News. “They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office”, Guiliani said. Mike PenceMike (Michael) Richard PenceGiuliani: “I didn’t forget 9/11” Hannity: CNN ‘kisses Clinton’s a-‘ Pence to campaign with Rubio in Florida: report MORE.
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During the Pennsylvania rally, Giuliani fired up the crowd by saying that there was never a “successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States”, before President Obama took office in 2008.
“You speak in somewhat abbreviated language”, Giuliani said.
Stumping for Donald Trump at a rally in OH, former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared to be quite forgetful. “All human beings speak in abbreviated language at times”. In a way that you wouldn’t be asking me this question today?
The logic behind Rudy Giuliani’s comments was definitely subjective, but Menges’ statement was consistent with what the former mayor actually said (even though it may have been unclear or misleading).
For a man once accused of forming every sentence with a noun, a verb and 9/11, it was a serious omission.
The New York Daily News has pointed out that the mistake comes two weeks after Giuliani appeared on ABC’s This Week with a big bruise on his forehead.
“I didn’t forget 9/11”.
During the 2008 election cycle, then-senator Joe Biden delivered perhaps the most memorable moment of the race by hitting presidential candidate Giuliani on the frequency with which he used that experience during the terrorist attack.
This is not the first time a Republican speaker has appeared to airbrush the deadly September 11 attack out of a conversation.
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“In the context in which I said it, where I explained the two prior attacks, including the attack during the Bush administration, of course I do”, Giuliani said.
