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Ignoring facts confidently seems to be a trait that is spreading fast among Trump supporters.
While backing Donald Trump’s national security plan, Rudolph Giuliani said that in the “eight years before (President Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States.”
And in saying so, he conveniently omitted the worst terror attack in the history of the United States.
Guiliani was the mayor of New York when the shocking 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre rocked the whole of US. In the absence of the then President, George W Bush, Guiliani had gracefully stepped in earning the nickname of “America’s mayor”.
Watch Rudolph Giuliani’s full speech.
To make matters more puzzling, quite like Trump, Guiliani went back and forth on his statements in the same speech.
Minutes before his factual blooper, he made several references to the deadly 9/11 attack.
Remember: We didn’t start this war; they did. We don’t want this war; they do. And they didn’t start it even in 2001. They attacked the World Trade Center in 1993
He heaped the blame of terrorism on Obama and Clinton ahead of Trump’s speech on national security by saying,
Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office.
Many took note of this “error” or conscious manipulation.
Apparently Giuliani spoke of the terror attack so frequently, that Biden once said said that the former mayor mentioned only three things in a sentence: “a noun, a verb and 9/11.”
(With inputs from AP)
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