Giuliani’s comments are particularly troubling not only because the attacks occurred seven years before Obama was elected but because he was mayor of NY when the twin towers were attacked.
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For a man once accused of forming every sentence with a noun, a verb and 9/11, it was a serious omission. As the mayor of New York City from 1994 until 2001, it was odd when he suggested that no terrorist attack had occurred prior to Obama’s presidency. “They all started when Clinton and Obama came into office”.
Although the Twitter jokes focus on Giuliani “forgetting” 9/11, it’s almost impossible that he actually forgot the terror attacks when he made that statement.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks before Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump in Youngstown, Ohio, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. First, in October, he called Jeb Bush “pathetic for saying nothing happened during your brother’s term when the World Trade Center was attacked and came down”.
George W Bush was president during the September 11 attacks.
“Remember: We didn’t start this war; they did”. We don’t want this war; they do.
Giuliani was on the show mainly to defend Trump, who claimed Obama was the founder of ISIS and that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was the co-founder.
“When you’re giving a speech, you only have five minutes”, Giuliani said. Introducing Mike Pence, he told the crowd, “You know better than I do what a great governor he is of your state!”
“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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Giuliani’s remarks drew swift criticism, including from 9/11 survivor Gabrielle Laine-Peters, who took to Twitter to say she was “so angry right now” and sent a picture with an explicit word to describe Giuliani.
