Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said there will be violence and chaos in the United States if President Trump is defeated, in a fiery speech at the final night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday.
Giuliani, who enjoyed a national reputation as an anti-crime crusader during his tenure in City Hall from 1994 to 2001, used New York City to make his case. He began his remarks, which were prerecorded at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., by describing the Big Apple as “overwhelmed by crime” and laying blame at the feet of the current mayor, Bill de Blasio, a Democrat.
However, Giuliani’s more generalized assertion about an increase in “violent crime” in New York was false. While the rates of murders, shootings, and burglaries are all up this year, rates of other major crimes, such rapes, assaults and robberies, have fallen. The protests have intensified in recent days in Kenosha, Wis., after a Black man named Jacob Blake was filmed being shot several times in the back by a police officer. In many cities, some rioting and looting has taken place within or alongside the protests. At the Republican National Convention, multiple speakers have baselessly suggested that Democratic support for the Black Lives Matter movement amounts to an encouragement of looting.
“Rudy’s been successful with the aggressive approach,” the campaign source said of Giuliani’s tenure as mayor. “It has been like this for decades, and it’s been controlled throughout by Democrats. In fact, shamefully, Obama and Biden did nothing at all to quell the carnage. I guess these black lives didn’t matter to them,” Giuliani said.
Idiot
His brain is so rattled he doesn’t know what he is saying!