Giuliani rails against press for publishing new Trump sexual misconduct allegations: ‘They are liars!’
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and one of Donald Trump’s top advisers, aimed a fiery rebuke at members of the media Thursday for publishing multiple allegations of unwanted sexual advances lodged by women against the Republican presidential nominee.
“They are liars!” Giuliani said in West Palm Beach, Fla., while warming up the crowd at a rally for the embattled GOP candidate. “They don’t like Republicans. They don’t like conservatives. They don’t like what we stand for and they want to undercut our values.”
Giuliani railed against the New York Times — which he referred to as the “Clinton Campaign Newsletter” — after the newspaper published a report detailing claims by two more women who say Trump groped them without their consent. A lawyer for Trump issued a letter accusing the Times of libel and demanding a retraction from the paper. (The paper published a letter in response refusing to do so.)
Giuliani’s comments came hours after he issued an apology for suggesting Hillary Clinton had lied about being at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The former mayor was widely mocked on social media by users who quickly posted photographs of Giuliani and Clinton together at Ground Zero on Sept. 12, 2001.
“I made a mistake,” Giuliani told the Associated Press. “I’m wrong and I apologize.”
In his Florida speech before Trump spoke, Giuliani also accused national newspapers of putting the allegations against Trump on the front page while burying stories about revelations from the recent WikiLeaks’ publication of Clinton campaign emails on “page 10.”
Two of America’s three highest-circulation newspapers did have stories about the email scandal on their front pages on Thursday. The one that didn’t — the USA Today — ran a cover story on Giuliani.
The former mayor then accused the press of a long-standing bias against conservative candidates.
“It gets worse every year,” Giuliani said. “They did this to Romney. They did it to McCain. They did it to Ronald Reagan.”
Later, Trump himself took the stage, blasting the media for publishing “outright lies” and “false smears.”
“These attacks are orchestrated by the Clinton campaign and their allies and the press,” he said, adding: “I never knew it would be this vile, this bad, this vicious. Nevertheless, I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you.”
