“Before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks inside the United States. They attacked the World Trade Center in 1993”, Giuliani said.
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The internet, of course, immediately took note of Giuliani’s horrific gaffe and began tweeting up a storm in response.
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”.
Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani appeared to briefly forget about the 11 September, 2001, attacks at a Trump rally this week.
Giuliani is merely referring to the eight years that have passed since George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law, but even if you allow for this fact, he is still neglecting a number of other terrorist attacks that took place after 9/11.
It wasn’t the first time that Giuliani had made the outrageously false claim that there were no terror attacks on U.S. soil during the Bush presidency.
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.
This led to some hyperventilating on Twitter from outlets saying that Giuliani was ignoring 9/11 (something Giuliani is normally not accused of doing).
Nevertheless, considering how he once said, “We had no domestic attacks under Bush”, who knows what he actually meant.
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The Daily News reported that Giuliani has made the outlandish claim regarding 9/11 before. Then, in a perplexing rhetorical moment, Giuliani conveniently erased the tragedy from United States history when speaking of the George W. Bush presidency. The worst attack ever in this country-it was during his Presidency. 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 don’t think so.
