Giuliani turns into an exponent of Donald Trump

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (pictured) is making as many "foot-in-mouth" comments as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the election campaign this year. Giuliani, who earned the nickname "America's Mayor," after successfully handling the chaos in the wake of the 9·11 terrorist attacks in 2001, has turned into an exponent of Donald Trump.

During an interview on Sep. 26, Giuliani attacked Hillary Rodman Clinton, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, calling her "too stupid to be president," citing the fact that she stayed with her husband Bill Clinton after the controversial sexual scandal during his term as president. On Sunday, the former mayor made an appearance on NBC, and when asked if he is the right person to make such attacks when he has his own infidelity charge, he answered, "Well, everybody does."

Giuliani and Trump are friends who have known each other for over 30 years. However, when Trump talked of his plan to banish the Muslim population out of the U.S. in December last year, Giuliani opposed the idea, calling it "violation of the first amendment," and when the Republican presidential hopeful called Mexicans "rapists" in February, Giuliani called it outdated.

Giuliani's leadership as middle-of-the-road conservative shone the most after the 9·11 terrorist attacks. Concerned about the possibility of hate crimes against Muslims spreading, he encouraged people to fight madness and hatred and was chosen as Time magazine's Man of the Year in 2001.

As to Giuliani's sudden change of tack to align himself with the Trump campaign exhibiting an extreme rightist stance, Jelani Cobb, contributor for The New Yorker, wrote in his article that it is hard to understand and called it Giuliani's appalling last act, citing that Giuliani, who is not even considering reelection, is presenting himself on the same side with a xenophobe for no clear reasons.

"Rudy Giuliani is finally running the race against Hillary Clinton that he first contemplated some 17 years ago," the Washington Post said. The newspaper analyzed that Giuliani, who stepped down from his New York Senate race in 2000 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, is now attacking Clinton based on personal grudges. During the Senate race, Giuliani was so competitive against Clinton that some said he was more interested in the reputation he would get by defeating Clinton than winning the Senate seat.

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