Just seconds prior to the comment, Giuliani specifically referenced the attacks twice while touting vice presidential candidate Mike Pence’s foreign affairs experience and recalling a trip Pence made to Lower Manhattan as a congressman in the aftermath of the attack.
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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”.
Did former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani forget about the 9/11 terror attacks while introducing Donald Trump during an OH rally? In fact, in the wake of the assault, Giuliani emerged as “America’s mayor”. That’s an apparent omission of the largest terror attack in USA history.
Social media users have reacted with a mixture of incredulity and outrage, accusing the lawyer and businessman of forgetting the very event at the heart of the “Never forget” slogan that became ubiquitous after the attacks.
In actuality, the devastating attacks occurred during the presidency of George W. Bush.
Cuomo pointed out what many pundits have been saying all week: Once Trump is president, he can not have people like Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani coming to his defense to clarify Trump-isms every time the billionaire makes a mindless blunder.
This led to some hyperventilating on Twitter from outlets saying that Giuliani was ignoring 9/11 (something Giuliani is normally not accused of doing).
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Giuliani had referred to the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in NY moments before making that remark. How exactly do you start a sentence about terrorism with “other than 9/11”? However, nothing was more closely affiliated with his term as mayor than the attack on the World Trade Center in Manhattan. What does that mean ‘after that?’ I don’t know. “I hardly would. I nearly died in it”, he said. I was there. I lost a lot of friends that were killed in that building. Less than two minutes before omitting the attacks in his faulty critique against the Obama administration, Giuliani called 9/11 the “worst attack in our history since the war of 1812”. Also blames him for every sinus attack in the US. That’s [like saying] the team scored 19 runs in the first inning, but after that we played well. “I think about it every day”.
