Giuliani complains about all the crime in New York under Trump
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Via: jbb • 4 years ago • 10 commentsBy: Josh Israel (The American Independent)
Well, what do you know? Guiliani is full of crap!
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By Josh Israel - August 27, 2020 10:25 PM3480
But it's better than when Rudy was mayor.
Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York City and Donald Trump's personal attorney, told the Republican National Convention on Thursday that crime has never been so bad as it is now. He neglected to mention that the problems he described all happened on Donald Trump's watch.
"New York City, once described as America's crime capital, had become, by the mid-nineties, America's safest large city," he said. "Now today, my city is in shock. Murders, shooting, and violent crime are increasing at percentages unheard of in the past. We're seeing the return of rioting and looting."
While he tried to pin the responsibility for this solely on New York's current mayor and prosecutors, the situation has happened under Donald Trump — the very man whose reelection Giuliani was attempting to support.
Trump too has made a big deal about rising crime in American cities since he took office in 2017, oddly making this an argument for a second term.
In 2016, he ran on a promise to end a mostly imaginary wave of violent crime.
"The crime rate is through the roof. People can't walk down the street without getting shot. I'll stop that," Trump claimed at the time.
In his January 2017 inaugural address, he promised that crime and poverty in inner cities would be a thing of the past. "This American carnage stops right here and stops right now," he said.
But while most violent crime in America has been on a steady decline since the early 1990s, Trump is again running on mostly false claims that America's cities are violent wastelands where "anarchy" reigns.
According to a recent BBC fact check, while violent crime is mostly down, there have been more murders this year in a few places, like Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. Much of this, experts say, could be related to the coronavirus pandemic.
And according to the New York Police Department's own data, felony crimes in New York City have significantly declined between when Giuliani left office at the end of 2001 and 2019.
Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.
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They should put his mug next to the word irrelevant!
Got some facts and figures for us show crime is down in NYC?
There is only one problem. Trump doesn't run NY!
He is POTUS, not mayor of NYC, nor the governor of NY. Those positions are occupied by mighty mental midget Democrats. Go to their sorry asses about the uptick in crime in NY. They are responsible for it.
didn't you get the memo? Orange Man bad.... I mean, a politician or a candidate made a promise and didn't fucking keep it. How dare he... He promised that inner city crime would go down... He should have just said if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. ya know, keep it nice and simple and all is forgiven.
Yeah, we all know that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have been good little Trumpsters. They'll do anything Trump says.
Too funny. Is there any way we can get Rudy to take part in the debates? He and Trump can be a tag team.
I can't imagine being so desperate to find people willing to say loving and admiring things about me, that I would invite this man to speak on my behalf at the RNC.
I wonder how Trump likes being thrown under the bus for once.