Republican vice presidential candidate, Mike Pence, left, shakes hands with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, before Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Asked whether Giuliani’s omission of the 9/11 attacks from his speech on Monday was intentional or simply a misstatement, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks told the Daily Dot in an email, “The Mayor was referencing since 9/11”.
A spokesman for the former mayor told media that Giuliani was referring to a lack of major attacks during the remainder of President George W. Bush’s term. “They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office”, he said Monday in Ohio.
Before the remark, Giuliani was talking about the September 11 terror attacks.
We were shocked the 72-year-old seemed to forget about this tragic and incredibly significant piece of American history for a couple of reasons. Almost 3,000 people died in the 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia.
Rudy Giuliani is what happens when you hate Obama/Hillary so much you even forget about terrorists that attacked us.
One tweeter wrote, “Disgusted that Rudy Giuliani is so anti-Obama that he is willing to dishonor the memory of those lost during 9/11”. “We don’t want this war”. After the 1994 conviction of the bomber, Giuliani lauded the US court system, saying the conviction “demonstrates that New Yorkers won’t meet violence with violence, but with a far greater weapon – the law”.
But as Jeet Heer, a senior editor at the New Republic, observes, Giuliani didn’t forget about the attacks in 2001, he just doesn’t think they should count.
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The mixups have raised concerns about a bump seen on Giuliani’s head recently, but the Daily News points out the former mayor similarly said there “no domestic attacks under Bush” in 2010.
