Giuliani, backing Trump, appears to briefly forget 9/11

In a campaign stop for fellow New Yorker Donald Trump, Giuliani claimed that there were no terrorist attacks in the U.S. before President Barack Obama assumed office.

Earlier today, speaking in Youngstown, Ohio ahead of Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani declared that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are responsible for terrorist attacks on the United States. Giuliani did mention the 1993 and 2001 World Trade Center attacks during his speech before the apparent gaffe.

Smoke rise from the World Trade Centre twin towers after the terror strikes on September 11, 2001.

Yesterday Rudy Giuliani was accused of selectively forgetting 9/11 during a speech introducing Republican vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence.

Given Giuliani’s frequent invocations in public appearances of his experience as mayor during 9/11, reporters immediately noticed when he said that the threat from terrorist groups “started” when Obama took office in 2009.

What’s actually going on is that Giuliani is trying to claim that, other than 9/11, George Bush had fewer terrorist attacks under his watch than Barack Obama, and thus Bush kept America safer.

The mixups have raised concerns about a bump seen on Giuliani’s head recently, but the Daily News points out the former mayor similarly said there “no domestic attacks under Bush” in 2010.

He continued, “Remember, we didn’t start this war”. We don’t want this war; they do.

However, it seems that Giuliani was not denying the attacks – after all, he was talking about them just moments before.

“They have been conducting this sort of vendetta campaign against Trump and they are going to do anything they can to parse sentences, take things out of context”, the former mayor said.