Rudy Giuliani forgets about 9/11 and claims that ‘before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the’ U.S.
You might want to get that bump on your head checked, Rudy.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday appeared to forget about the worst-ever terror attack to occur on U.S. soil, claiming that there simply had been no such assaults inside America before President Obama.
“Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States,” Giuliani said during a head-scratching speech to introduce Donald Trump in Youngstown, Ohio.
“They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office,” Giuliani said, bizarrely forgetting the horrific 9/11 attacks.
The extraordinary exclusion of 9/11 was especially peculiar, given that, just a moment earlier Giuliani had been discussing the attacks and praising vice presidential nominee Mike Pence for a “very, very timely” visit to Ground Zero and for his help, as a then-congressman, on the Judiciary Committee to help “fashion the Patriot Act.”
Rudy Giuliani: In 8 years before Pres. Obama "we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack" in US https://t.co/K9oYGhJq8l
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 15, 2016
Giuliani, who suffered a mysterious head injury earlier this month, also appeared to forget what state Pence was the governor of.
"You know better than I do what a great governor he is of your state,” Giuliani told the Ohio crowd.
Pence is the governor of Indiana.
Giuliani's 9/11 omission, however, was the former mayor’s most glaring gaffe.
Giuliani has been a steady supporter of Donald Trump.
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But he’s made the same insane claim for years.
In 2010, Giuliani repeatedly said that the U.S. saw “no domestic attacks under Bush.”
His latest iteration of that mistake, however, came just weeks after he appeared on national television with a massive bump on his head.
During an Aug. 7 appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Giuliani spewed pro-Trump nonsense with a “yuge” bruise over the right side of his forehead.
Workers are seen amid the rubble of the World Trade Center in September 2001. Giuliani appeared to forget Monday about the worst-ever terror attack to occur on U.S. soil, claiming that there simply had been no such assaults inside America before President Obama.
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In an interview with the Daily News later that day, he explained that he had hit his head on a glass door during a fall in the shower.
In recent weeks, Giulini has repeatedly defended Trump’s own erratic statements, including the GOP nominee’s suggestion last week that Second Amendment supporters should shoot Hillary Clinton to prevent her from nominating her preferred judges.
“We know that Donald Trump is not particularly indirect,” he said last Wednesday “Good Morning America” Wednesday. “If Donald Trump was going to say something like that, he’d say something like that.”
A day earlier Trump appeared to encourage Second Amendment-lovers to open fire on his November opponent.
“Hillary wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Trump told the crowd. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
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