"You know you're really beautiful.
A woman that looks like that
has to have her own special scent.
Oh thank you.
Maybe maybe you could tell me what
you think of this scent?
I like that.
This may be the best of all."
That's Rudy Giuliani: former
mayor of New York City
and Trump motorboatee.
"Oh you dirty boy, you. Donald, I thought you were a gentlemen."
He's one of Trump's many lawyers
and he loves the Yankees.
Giuliani was born in 1944
to a working class family in Brooklyn,
New York. The grandson of Italian
immigrants he attended Bishop
Loughlin Memorial High School,
an all boys school in Fort Greene
where he first gained his love of politics
and desks.
He convinced a few classmates to skip
school and head into Manhattan
to catch a glimpse of Giuliani's onetime
hero: John F.
Kennedy. Giuliani shook his
hand.
As his senior year was creeping in
and classmates of Giuliani were asking
their folks for cars
and cash and trips for graduation,
Rudy asks for a giant desk
and a giant leather chair.
He graduated in 1961,
scribbling in classmates yearbooks "God
bless you"
and "Vote Democratic."
He went to a Manhattan College
and then NYU's law school
and he'd graduate as a staunch
Democrat.
He had already volunteered for Robert F.
Kennedy's senatorial campaign before
he became a committeeman for the Democratic
Party in Long Island,
New York and voted for George McGovern
for president in 1972.
During the Vietnam War Giuliani
fought not to fight.
He got several deferments in a row as a
student and the coast seemed clear:
He wouldn't have to fight.
But eventually his deferments ran
out and Giuliani got lucky.
His draft number was just too
high for him to be sent to Nom.
Giuliani evaded all military
service.
In 1970 Giuliani
joined the United States Attorney's Office
in New York.
In 1973,
at the young age of 29,
he was named chief of the Narcotics
Unit and became Executive U.S.
Attorney. He had caught the politics
bug. He moved to Washington,
dropped his Democratic party affiliation,
and got a job working for Gerald
Ford.
But the glitz and glam of what real New
Yorker's call The Big
Apple would eventually beckon Giuliani
back. In 1977,
he returned to work at a New York
law firm. When Reagan became president,
Giuliani switched from an independent
to a Republican purely for job
opportunities.
Our source on that: his mommy.
"He only became a Republican after
he began to get all these jobs" said
Helen Giuliani.
"He's definitely not a conservative
Republican.
He thinks he is
but he isn't.
He still feels very sorry for
the poor." Boom.
Mom roasted.
A year later he was sworn into the Reagan
administration as the youngest Associate
General in history.
He used that position to fight
the drug war,
spending two years allocating
resources to making sure people
don't get high.
In 1983 Giuliani
was appointed U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New
York where he made a name for himself
cleaning up the city of organized crime
and corruption in the local government
and Wall Street.
He amassed a record of
4,152 convictions
with just 25 reversals.
But critics of Giuliani noted that
in many high profile cases he
would often drop charges for lack
of evidence rather than going to trial.
Basically fudging the numbers by only
bringing cases he knew he would
win at trial.
But there was no question that Giuliani
cleared New York City's streets of its
mafia problem.
He indicted 11 organized crime
figures including leaders of The
Five Families.
In 1989 Giuliani ran
for mayor of New York as a candidate
of both the Liberal
and Conservative parties
but lost to New York City's first black
mayor David Dinkins by the closest
margin in New York City history.
Giuliani found time to speak at a union
rally in 1992
organized by the Patrolmen's Benevolent
Association to protest Mayor Dinkins
call to investigate widespread allegations
of misconduct within the NYPD
where many off duty officers
and other angry protesters rioted
and chanted racist slogans such as
"The mayor is on crack!" About
4,000 of the reported 10,000
off duty, largely white,
police officers stormed the steps
of City Hall.
In some cases armed
and drunk,
vandalizing,
violently attacking innocent bystanders,
and spewing racial slurs the whole way there.
Beer cans and broken beer bottles
littered the streets as mayor
Giuliani led the crowd in chants
against the man who had defeated him for
the mayorship.
Giuliani never condemned the riots
but instead allegedly used them
as a campaign opportunity.
The New York Times reported at one time
there was at least one Giuliani supporter
handing out voter registration cards
at the rally.
And it worked.
Giuliani became the hundred
and seventh the mayor of New York City in
1993
and was reelected again in 1997.
"We can kick your city's ass!" Although the crime rate was falling
years before Giuliani took over,
that didn't stop him from giving himself
full credit for the decrease.
"One of the things that I accomplished as mayor of New
York City was the impossible.
I took a city that was the crime capital
of America and I made it not
only the safest large city in America,
I made it safer than
189 small cities."
During his 8 years as mayor the crime
rate did in fact drop by fifty six
percent but that had been drastically
declining since 1990,
years before Giuliani
ever took over. He used the 'broken
windows approach',
going after minor crimes to
get the crime rate down.
"Crimes: you have to pay attention
to people urinating on the streets."
'Broken windows policing' has been criticized
as targeting people of color
and the poor. Giuliani oversaw the stop
and frisk program which allowed police
officers to temporarily detain
and search civilians without a warrant.
Under Giuliani there were a string
of alleged racially charged police attacks.
Four officers beat
and sodomized a Haitian man forcing
a broom handle into the man's rectum
and saying "It's Giuliani time."
In another episode,
Bronx officers shot an immigrant
man fourty one times
during a stop and frisk when he
was only reaching for his wallet to show
ID. Giuliani said it was
"unfortunate
but the officers should be given
the benefit of the doubt." The following
year an officer shot
and killed a man for a drug sale.
Giuliani brought up his past
juvenile record
and said "He isn't an altar boy."
The man literally had been an
altar boy. His time as mayor was dwindling
and fast because of those pesky
term limits.
He had cheated on his wife,
stirred racial waters,
and a new mayor was about to be selected.
But Giuliani's checkered past
took a back seat
the morning of September 11,
2001.
On both sides of the aisle Giuliani
was praised for his response to the 9/11
terror attacks on his city.
"Giuliani was brave
and reassuring
and you can't subtract that from
his resume," said Bob Kerrey
a former Democratic senator
and governor.
He added "Giuliani did
what The President didn't do.
He went to all those funerals
and that grieving got us back to normal."
There was a clear consensus on how
well Giuliani had handled the worst
attacks on U.S. soil in history.
He was TIME's Person of the Year in 2001.
Oprah called him 'America's mayor'.
The Queen knighted him.
And even Adam Sandler managed
to rhyme Giuliani with: "Why
must you be gone-ey." But many
didn't have the same reaction including
veteran firefighters who were broken hearted
to say the least with Giuliani's response
to 9/11. The 9/11 Commission
report noted that lack of preparedness
could have led to the deaths of many
first responders.
The radios the fire department used were the
same ones that had been criticized
for ineffectiveness following the 1993
bombings of the World Trade Center.
The radios were not working when fire
department chiefs ordered 343
firefighters inside the towers to
evacuate. Those 343
firefighters remained in the towers
as they collapsed. Under Giuliani's
tenure the emergency command center,
which controls coordination between
police and firefighters,
was moved to Seven World Trade Center,
which collapsed during the attacks hindering
rescue efforts.
Giuliani tried to extend his
term by 3 months.
But the Senate wouldn't allow it.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg took over
and Giuliani's dwindling pre 9/11
past would soon again be at
the forefront.
After his tenure as mayor,
Giuliani campaigned for future nude
self portrait artist,
President George W.
Bush. Apparently the day after
the attacks Giuliani grabbed the
arm of the police commissioner
and said "Thank God George Bush
is our president." Giuliani also
reportedly thought the United States
decision to go to war
with Iraq was quote "absolutely
the right thing to do." He was so
thrilled with the way his presidency
was going,
he was inspired to do it himself.
And in 2007 Giuliani
announced he'd also run for president.
And it started off hot.
But when the guy he recommended for the position
of Secretary of Homeland Security
was inconveniently indicted
on 16 counts of tax fraud
and other legal charges,
by the end of the year
Giuliani was slipping.
"It's not over until it's over.
Well thank you all for your hard work your spirit
and your support." He took his name
out of the running
and endorsed Wedding Crashers actor
and American patriot John McCain
on January 30th 2008.
McCain, like Giuliani,
would also not be elected president.
But after his unsuccessful run for presidency
Giuliani laid low for the most part.
He popped back up at a Republican fundraising
event in 2015 where he said
"I do not believe,
and I know this is a horrible thing to say,
but I do not believe
that the President,
Obama,
loves America
and 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 the love of this country." Giuliani
faced tons of backlash for this.
He responded,
"Some people thought it was racist.
I thought it was a joke,
since he was brought up by a white mother..."
Giuliani disliked Obama so
much he forgot about
9/11 which they specifically
told us not to do.
"Under those eight years
before Obama came along
we didn't have
any successful
radical Islamic terrorist attack
in the United States." "Never
forget!" For the 2000
election Giuliani endorsed his
old friend and WWE Hall
of Famer, Donald J.
Trump. Giuliani has been by
Trump's side through thick
and thin. When Trump bragged about
the efficacy of grabbing women's
genitals without their consent,
it was Giuliani who said "Men
at times talk like that." In January
2017,
Trump tapped Giuliani as informal
Cyber Security Adviser.
In 2018,
Giuliani wore air Pod's
like this. Perhaps Giuliani
was wearing his air Pod's like this
when he got the call to join Trump's
legal team in an effort to quickly
resolve that pesky Russian collusion
investigation.
And he succeeded, in focusing
everyone's attention on something else.
He dropped a bomb Sean Hannity wasn't
even ready for,
that the president did reimburse Michael
Collins for paying porn star
and executive Stormy Daniels $130,000.
"Funneled through the law firm and The President repaid it."
And the thing he was actually hired to
speak on wasn't going any better.
He urged Trump not to testify
before Special Counsel Robert Mueller
because quote "Our recollection
keeps changing." Look back to the case
he wasn't hired to speak on: Stormy Daniels.
When you look at Stormy Daniels...
I know Donald Trump
and
look at his three wives.
Beautiful women.
Classy women.
Women of great substance.
Stormy Daniels?
Explain to me how she could be damaged?
She has no reputation.
If you're going to sell your body for money
you just don't have a reputation."
You'd think Giuliani would have a little more
empathy for Stormy considering all he's been through.