And someone needs to remind former Mayor Giuliani,
that falsely reporting a crime, is a crime and
from what he stated about being punched in the head felt like a bullet.
When he stated, there was a lot of creativity and
I think the District Attorney, he has the wrong person that he's investigating.
To falsely report a crime, is a crime.
If that video wasn't there,
then this person would have been charged with punching the former mayor.
He had been charged with all of these offenses that did not materialize.
I saw that video.
>> Okay, [LAUGH] that is New York Mayor Eric Adams,
notoriously loves the police, former police chief himself.
When a guy who is that wedded to tough on crime politics and
policies and the police is telling you that maybe you
falsely reported a crime, you know that what happened was sad.
Like you know that you're on the wrong side here.
Cuz Eric Adams would use any excuse to make his tough
on crime policies even tougher, right, tough on crime in quotation marks.
But no, he's obviously talking about Rudy Giuliani who was
patted on the back by a worker maybe lightly shoved here.
We have the video again.
Little boom, I love the rub.
That's my favorite part is the former mayor.
He was minimally slapped on the back by worker
Daniel Gil who worked at the grocery store.
Daniel Gill had been charged with second degree assault,
a felony in the immediate aftermath of the episode.
But prosecutors later reduced the charges to third degree assault,
a misdemeanor, third degree menacing and second degree harassment.
So menacing harassment, these are misdemeanors, not felonies.
You got Eric Adams there saying,
no they're actually just prosecuting the wrong person.
It should be Rudy Giuliani that they're going after for
falsely reporting the crime [LAUGH].
Jayar, just initial thoughts on that.
>> Yeah, so that's the thing,
I think also part of this is because Rudy Giuliani has turned this into a campaign,
slogan and a speech even and as we know last night, I'm not sure if you get too.
But the whole point about this is to promote Andrew Giuliani,
his son who was running for governor of the state but he lost last night.
But another part about this, there was a patriot takes tweeted out this event where
Giuliani spoke about the same thing again at a different event.
Saying, yeah, yeah, so yeah, he came behind me, he pushed me over but
I'm actually a really good in shape 78 year old and I was like, So
this has turned to a campaign pitch.
This has turned to a speech.
It's a stump speech now and if nothing else again it goes to the heart of
many conservative Republicans that are running for office have nothing.
It's just straight up telling stories about how you've been assaulted,
how you're a victim, how we have to go after that person,
this person because look it's always us.
They're coming for us, they could have killed me.
An elderly man in New York that could have been killed from getting shoved and
his head hit the ground.
I remember there was this guy in Buffalo during the protests in 2020,
he got shoved over by Buffalo Police.
And his head cracked against the concrete,
where we're concerned about him in these conservative circles,
they weren't because that doesn't win elections, that's all they care about.
>> And Mayor Eric Adams who by the way, not the former police chief, I apologize,
I misspoke, but he was a captain and was a police officer, a police captain.
He has no qualms with the police doing this kind of violence, right?
This is obviously Eric Adams trying to score a few political points against
Republicans, against Trump and against Giuliani, but
in this case I'm like have at it, I don't care.
That's hilarious because we should all be dunking
on Giuliani who was fuming at the lowering of the charges.
So Mr Giuliani, 78, fumed during an online news conference about the lowering
of the charges saying, what the hell is this D.A doing letting him out of jail?
He claimed the footage with deceptive because it just shows the hand on my back
but I didn't fall down.
Mr Giuliani said, I could have if I fell down,
who knows this little punk isn't gonna hurt me.
He added, the mafia threatened to kill me twice.
Which-.
>> [LAUGH].
>> What, sorry what are we talking about right now?
Say more about the mafia stuff.
Why did they threaten to kill you twice?
What is going on?
Did you guys have a little thing going like why this drunk,
erratic, senile man is just, there's no way to cut it,
it was a pat on the back, you didn't fall down.
There's no way you could have fallen down.
>> Well, it's one of those things so
somebody did something you're upset about it can find.
Cool, cool ,cool I get it.
There was an intimidating pat on the back and hey, what's up scumbag,
I think is what he called him is at least what the retelling of the story said
that he called him in that whole process.
But if you're so mad because then by the way I think the mom must have threatened
him because he was prosecuting back in the day.
And you get a confrontation or an interaction like this and
then you're incensed because we couldn't get to the point of making sure
this guy gets arrested.
And first degree felony charges, you're campaigning on the story bro.
I don't think he understands how this works.
If you're campaigning on this story about how badly you've been
injured they might think that you're just using this for
campaigning about how you got I guess aggressively approached to a small degree.
[CROSSTALK] These are people that are used to getting their way.
>> For sure, but let me ask you,
does anyone have less anyone who is in the Trump circle,
who is a Trump loyalist have less Trumpian clout than Rudy Giuliani?
Like I can't think of anyone who is more of a laughing stock and yet
completely a loyalist like Giuliani has never betrayed the President ever,
the former President, right?
Never said anything negatively about Trump but
even he just like mega doesn't love him.
They're not gonna follow him around the end of the earth and
especially not after this like ridiculous incident that if you keep
talking about it bro we're gonna keep replaying that video.
And now you have Eric Adams being like I think we should investigate him for
false allegations and falsely reporting a crime and
you're like I can't believe I'm agreeing with Eric Adams, right?
That makes me feel weird.
>> Honestly at the beginning but I was thinking yeah,
yeah I know it was a bit of an aggressive move whatever.
But again you can't try to capitalize off it and think that we should continue to
take it as seriously cuz that to me it eliminates the seriousness of it.
>> Yeah and and way to point out the ways that like I don't know
the way that small incidents get over inflated.
I mean I think this happens a lot.
And again, not to make this about, I mean what we can take away from it is the ways
that like if you are rich and powerful,
you say you were assaulted nine times out of 10, there's not always video evidence.
And you're not already a laughing stock of the nation.
And so how many times is that grocery worker gonna lose their job,
be prosecuted for a felony, right?
Like over criminalizing happens all the time and
it happens of course in New York City as well as so many other places.
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