Giuliani’s statement leaves out the largest terror attacks in America’s history, for which he was mayor of New York City.
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In a campaign stop for fellow New Yorker Donald Trump, Giuliani claimed that there were no terrorist attacks in the U.S. before President Barack Obama assumed office.
Perhaps more interesting than this half-gaffe, though, is that, in stumping for Trump, Giuliani contradicted one of Trump’s main talking points on terrorism from his primary campaign. In fact, his discussions of the attacks were so common that Vice President Joe Biden once said of him there were “only three things he mentions in a sentence: A noun, a verb and 9/11”.
“I didn’t forget 9/11”.
“[Mike Pence was] a member of the Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committee during the time of September 11, when we went through the worst foreign attack in our history since the War of 1812”, he continued, referencing GOP presidential candidate Trump’s VP pick. “I think about it every day”. In addition to being the mayor of New York City during the attacks and their aftermath, he cited his response to them as a testament to his qualifications during his presidential campaigns.
A spokesman for Giuliani told the AP that he was referring to the years between 9/11 and Obama’s first term when he said there were no attacks. “They attacked the World Trade Center in 1993”, Giuliani said.
“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.
This was not the only time the former NYC mayor messed up during his speech. As Trump told Jeb Bush this past February, “the World Trade Center came down under your brother’s reign, remember that”.
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Giuliani made a similar, but even more outrageous claim, in January of 2010.
