“My knowledge of foreign policy is as good, or better, than anybody they’re talking to.”
— Rudy Giuliani, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, making the case for why he should be Secretary of State.
“My knowledge of foreign policy is as good, or better, than anybody they’re talking to.”
— Rudy Giuliani, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, making the case for why he should be Secretary of State.
Rudy Giuliani told CNN he would be interested in being attorney general.
Said Giuliani: “I certainly have the energy, and there’s probably nobody who knows the Justice Department better than me.”
The Daily Beast notes that two days before FBI Director James Comey’s announcement last week about new Clinton emails found, Rudy Giuliani hinted at “big surprises” on Fox News:
“I think he’s got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises. We’ve got a couple of things up our sleeve that should turn this thing around.”
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“I was U.S. attorney and assistant to the U.S. attorney for too many years to laugh at Mrs. Clinton. When I see her, I see her in an orange jumpsuit, I’m sorry, or at least a striped one.”
— Rudy Giuliani, quoted by CNN.
Rudy Giuliani said that Democrats “are more likely to promote voter fraud than Republicans, citing elections in the cities of Chicago and Philadelphia as examples,” Politico reports.
Said Giuliani: “I’ve found very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don’t control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities, they’d do as much cheating as Democrats.”
He added: “I’m sorry. Dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans.”
Rudy Giuliani suggested that a man such as Donald Trump would be a better president “than a woman,” according to Politico.
Said Giuliani: “Don’t you think a man who has this kind of economic genius is a lot better for the United States than a woman, and the only thing she’s ever produced is a lot of work for the FBI checking out her emails.”
Rudy Giuliani said that Hillary Clinton’s decision to stand by her husband after news of his extramarital affair broke in 1998 proves that the former secretary of state is “too stupid to be president,” Politico reports.
Said Giuliani: “The president of the United States, her husband, disgraced this country with what he did in the Oval Office and she didn’t just stand by him, she attacked Monica Lewinsky. And after being married to Bill Clinton for 20 years, if you didn’t know the moment Monica Lewinsky said that Bill Clinton violated her that she was telling the truth, then you’re too stupid to be president.”
Rudy Giuliani floated the prospect of Donald Trump not participating in further general election debates, after what he believes was inappropriate meddling by moderator Lester Holt, The Hill reports.
Said Giuliani: “If I were Donald Trump, I wouldn’t participate in another debate unless I was promised the journalist would act like a journalist, and not an ignorant fact check.”
“Until the war is over, anything is legal.”
— Rudy Giuliani, in an interview on ABC News, saying that taking Iraq’s oil would have been legal.
Rudy Giuliani claimed that Hillary Clinton “acted intentionally and with criminal intent” in regard to the private email server she used while secretary of state, Politico reports.
He said in a statement that Clinton’s “powerful evidence of criminal intent” was how she deleted 33,000 emails and erased them with “expensive BleachBit software” that he claims is “used by criminals seeking to hide evidence from law enforcement.”
Instant fact check: BleachBit is actually free to download.
Wayne Barrett: “Rudy has actually been more visible in his buddy’s campaign than he was at times in his own $50 million presidential attempt in 2008, when he managed to convert the months-long top ranking in the polls into a single delegate. The imperial 2016 candidate who hates losers, especially ones who wind up in Vietnamese prisons, has instead embraced an epic dud, his solitary act of empathy in a campaign of callousness. He could’ve trashed Rudy like he did John McCain: ‘I like people who weren’t caught with their command center down.’
“But the onetime comb-over twins just had too much in common. Though bombs-away hawks today, they got multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam War, with athlete Donald citing bad feet as his excuse and Rudy using an ear defect to sidestep his ROTC obligations.”
“Then there’s the wife trifecta. No one in American public life, other than perhaps their kindred spirit Newt Gingrich, has ever mastered the art of a bad divorce like Rudy and Donald, carrying on as if spousal humiliation was the point.”
Politico: Is Rudy Giuliani losing his mind?
Rudy Giuliani writing in USA Today:
I did not come to a conclusion on this matter; I simply asked people to draw their own conclusions. I hope Secretary Clinton is perfectly healthy, and I feel that I have performed a public service if I can motivate the press to fulfill its responsibility to get the public the information it deserves — and the same standard should be applied to all candidates.
Rudy Giuliani said the media “fails to point out several signs” of Hillary Clinton’s “illness” adding that “all you gotta do is go online,” Politico reports.
Said Giuliani: “Go online and put down ‘Hillary Clinton illness,’ take a look at the videos yourself.”
“It may be that he may make more insensitive statements because he’s not a polished politician.”
— Rudy Giulini, quoted by The Hill, defending Donald Trump.
“So if you want to deal with this on the black side, you’ve got to teach your children to be respectful to the police, and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police. The real danger to them, 99 out of 100 times, is other black kids who are going to kill them; that’s the way they’re gonna die.”
— Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, quoted by Politico.
“Rudy Giuliani will meet with Ted Cruz on Thursday in New York, according to a national political operative and Republican operative in New York familiar with the plans.” Politico reports.
“The meeting could signal a significant shift: Giuliani had in February said he was acting as an informal adviser to Donald Trump, and had spoken favorably of him publicly several times.”
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says that Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of the Islamic State through her efforts to help U.S. troops leave Iraq, Politico reports.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani will probably endorse Donald Trump for president, Politico reports.
Said Giuliani: “The way I look at it, there really are only three people who will be the next president of the United States. One’s Hillary Clinton, the other’s Donald Trump, and the third is Ted Cruz. So I’ll choose between those three.”
He added: “I’ll give you a hint: it won’t be Hillary Clinton. I seriously doubt it will be Ted Cruz. But I just want to think about it a little bit more before I do anything formally.”
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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