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“I knew as soon as Giuliani spoke that he was damaging Trump’s case immeasurably. It ranks near 100 in terms of damage.”
— Former Trump lawyer Jay Goldberg, tearing into Rudy Giuliani on CNN saying he is seriously hurting the president’s case against Michael Cohen.
“Truth is relative. They may have a different version of the truth than we do.”
— Rudy Giuliani, quoted by the Washington Post, saying special counsel Robert Mueller may be setting a “perjury trap” for President Trump.
I will tell you something I haven’t told anybody else. I’ve had some conversation with some other Republican senators and I’m not the only one with some misgivings over both Giuliani and Bolton. And I haven’t met a Democrat that’s for either one of them. But I’ve met several Republicans that aren’t.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview on Hardball, on who might be the next Secretary of State.
I confirm that and Donald Trump now confirms that. Donald Trump believes now that [Barack Obama] was born in the United States.
— He added that Trump is “proud” of his 2011 campaign to get Obama to release his birth certificate, Politico reports.
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.
She had her chance to do it. She helped create ISIS. I mean, Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of ISIS.
— Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying 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.
I hate to mention it because of what happened afterwards, but (he should be saying) the kinds of stuff Bill Cosby used to say.
— Rudy Giuliani, quoted by the New York Daily News, saying President Obama should tell African-Americans they need “to focus more on education, be better parents and avoid lives of crime.”
I’ve never asked the President so I don’t really know what his opinions are on that one way or another.”
— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, sought to stay out of the uproar over former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comments about President Barack Obama and love of country, saying those two could speak for themselves.
I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.
— Rudy Giuliani, quoted by Politico.
The mayor is not in any way to be treated with people turning their backs. It doesn’t matter whether you like the mayor or you don’t like the mayor, you have to respect the mayor’s position.
— Rudy Giuliani, quoted by Newsday, after New York City police turned their backs to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) speaking at a police officer’s funeral.