Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he had a 'sense of admiration' in the 1980s for how Giuliani brought down the Mafia.
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he had a ‘sense of admiration’ in the 1980s for how Giuliani brought down the Mafia.
It is hard to overstate how thoroughly Giuliani parlayed his experience as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York into a political career. By the time he stepped out of the courtroom to explore his 1989 run for New York City mayor, his name recognition, higher than many elected officials at the time, and he was polling ahead of three-time incumbent Ed Koch.
“As an Italian American during his earlier years as U.S. Attorney, he was cleaning up the Teamsters and going after the Mafia. I had a sense of admiration — and I was not a guy who loved Republicans,” said de Blasio, who later soured on Giuliani, to put it mildly.being brought in Georgia by the Fulton County district attorney, who accuses the former New York City Mayor — along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others — of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.
“This is an affront to American Democracy and does permanent, irrevocable harm to our justice system. It’s just the next chapter in a book of lies with the purpose of framing President Donald Trump and anyone willing to take on the ruling regime,” Giuliani said in a statement released Tuesday. “They lied about Russian collusion, they lied about Joe Biden’s foreign bribery scheme, and they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive proving 30 years of criminal activity.
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