During a rally for Republican nominee Donald Trump in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday, Giuliani attempted to place blame for the rise of jihadist terrorism in the US on President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic rival.
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He says that there were no successful terrorist attacks from Islamic groups before Barack Obama became president and while his speech shows that he has yet to forget 9/11, it does show that he has yet to lose his sense for shortsighted self-promotion at the expense of the truth.
Trump spokesman Jason Miller said Giuliani was referring to the period of time following the 9/11 terror attacks and before Obama was sworn into office. (He also glosses over a terrorist attack at the Los Angeles airport in 2002, for the record.) The fact that 9/11 occurred on Bush’s watch certainly undermines Giuliani’s central point.
Former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, omitted 9/11 out of a speech on domestic terror attacks, and Twitter slammed him for “forgetting”.
Whatever the former NY mayor actually meant to say, Giuliani’s statement was ambiguous enough to anger plenty of New Yorkers and Americans.
Giuliani’s comments were meant to offer praise to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump’s vice presidential running mate, for his work in Congress after 9/11. However, the Republican presidential candidate might want to make sure his supporters don’t slip up and make avoidable mistakes when they hit the campaign trail on his behalf.
On Monday, Rudy Giuliani was speaking before Donald Trump took the stage to discuss foreign policy in Youngstown, Ohio.
A spokesman for the Trump campaign told the Associated Press that the former mayor was referring to the years after september 11, 2001.
Rudy Giuliani is what happens when you hate Obama/Hillary so much you even forget about terrorists that attacked us. “Do I blame George Bush?” As Trump told Jeb Bush this past February, “the World Trade Center came down under your brother’s reign, remember that”.
Gabrielle Laine Peters lived by the World Trade Center tweeted: “SO Angry right now”.
For his part, Bush himself repeatedly argued that his administration “kept America safe” in the years after 9/11, in part by bringing “freedom” to millions of Afghans and Iraqis.
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He did not mention the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in NY, when more than 2,900 people died. Trump has painted a very different picture.
