Giuliani calls for NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to step down
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani discusses the extensive violence occurring in New York and how to control it.
Former New York City Mayor and President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani railed against the Big Apple’s current mayor, Bill de Blasio, saying none of the riots would have happened in the area if he was “vaguely competent,” and called for him to step down.
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“I haven’t seen de Blasio at the scene of any of these things. I would have been at the scene of every single one – and there would have only been one, and it would have been over.”
Giuliani, a Republican who ran the city from 1994 to 2001, told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo that de Blasio, a Democrat, needs to “get out of the way and let someone activate the police department” or else he believes lives will be lost.
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“We’ve watched now over and over again people looting, throwing Molotov cocktails, burning cars and now putting our police in hospitals and virtually no major arrests are made,” Giuliani said Tuesday morning on “Mornings with Maria.” “The mayor should step down. He is incompetent … In other cities, they’re activating the National Guard. In New York City we have to activate the New York City Police Department.”
Giuliani defended the NYPD, saying they’re “being used as punching bags, and then he has the audacity to criticize them for being too brutal."
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