Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
Rudy Giuliani secretly asked then-New York Gov. George Pataki to cancel New York City’s 2001 mayoral election so he could remain in office following the Sept. 11 terror attack, the New York Post reports.
The bombshell revelation is contained in Pataki’s upcoming memoir of 9/11, Beyond the Great Divide: How A Nation Became A Neighborhood.
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