“They fear for themselves”, he said. “They fear for our police officers who are being targeted, with a target on their back”. “Because the real danger to you is that black kid who is going to shoot you on the street because that happens many, many more times than police officers. They just come to save you”, he said, drawing a standing ovation from the audience at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena.
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During his mayoral administration, Giuliani received national acclaim for presiding over a sharp downturn of violent crime. “It includes Hispanics and African Americans and Asians and the poor and the middle class”.
When the former USA attorney for the Southern District of NY asked the attendees if they would trust Clinton to be the next commander in chief, they responded in unison with a thunderous “No!”
During his speech, he addressed the recent attacks on police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, commending the officers for their fearless service.
He said that it’s time to make America safe again, and it’s time to make America one again. “There’s no white America, there is just America”?”
TIMING IS EVERYTHING: Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was speaking to the convention when broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC began their one hour of coverage, and they treated his appearance nearly as an inconvenience. “How was it thrown away?”
Disclosure: Donald Trump is the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, the publisher of Observer Media.
And in a time of heightened racial tension, it’s worth asking whether Giuliani made NY a closer-knit city.
Sixteen years after he’d been forced to pass on his Senate campaign amid a divorce and a bout with cancer, Giuliani pounded Clinton with everything he had.
Concerning the media and Trump, Giuliani said that Trump is a good man, and he’s sick of the media tearing him down.
“I would like to make something very clear: Blue Lives matter!” the black sheriff said said upon entering the stage.
Giuliani further took jabs at expected Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, saying while her experience is the basis for her campaign, it’s “exactly the reason she should not be our president”. “This is why our enemies see us as weak and vulnerable”, he said. We know who the enemy is: radical Islamic extremism. If they are at war against us-which they have declared-we must commit ourselves tounconditional victory against them.
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Although he presided as a mayor over a sanctuary city, Giuliani ripped Clinton for favoring “open borders” and all but accused her of wanting to import terrorists under the guise of accepting a few thousand carefully screened Syrian refugees. That the various House investigations had not proven any culpability on Hillary’s part, a fact echoed by numerous commentators after Pat Smith the grieving mother of Sean Smith, one of the four who died in Benghazi, blamed Hillary directly for the death of her son from the convention rostrum.
