The Republican politician – who was mayor of NY from 1994 to 2001, including the day when two planes crashed into the Twin Towers and killed more than 3,000 – was heavily criticized on social media for his comment, which seemed as if he momentarily forgot about the largest terrorist attack on US soil.
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Rudy Giuliani wound up with egg on his face Monday when, while introducing Donald Trump in Youngstown, Ohio, he bizarrely claimed that Islamic terrorists had never attacked the United States until after President Obama was elected in 2008. Giuliani clearly meant there wasn’t an attack during the 2001-2009 period after 9/11 and not the entirety of the eight years before Obama took office.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani apparently forgot that the September 11th terror attacks came under President George W. Bush’s watch.
People on social media immediately took Giuliani to task for his selective memory.
“The terrorists attacked on 9/11 because they knew Obama would be the next president”, Cassandra Nicholson wrote sarcastically.
On Tuesday, the former New York City mayor defended his remarks, saying when someone is giving a short speech, there’s no time to “give an encyclopedic explanation”. We don’t want this war, they do.
Before Sept. 11, there was also the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. They figure that the facts and history don’t favor their candidate so they might as well discard the whole thing and start fresh with their own narrative?
Though Giuliani governed the nation’s largest city as a moderate Republican, who moved much further to the right when he welcomed Bush to NY for the 2004 Republican National Convention and as he mounted an ill-fated 2008 presidential bid.
According to The New Yorker, Giuliani had previously been criticized as “blind to all but the worst instances of police misconduct” while serving as mayor from 1994 to 2001.
“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.
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“You always have to look to the person at the top”, Trump said in October. He also told the OH crowd they were about to greet their own governor. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
