Rudy Giuliani is an attorney and former mayor of New York City, known for his leadership during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, which earned him national recognition. He later became a key adviser to former President Donald Trump, particularly in legal matters surrounding the 2020 election.
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Rudy: I was very shocked to notice that in the men's room here at the [Palm Beach County] Convention Center, "Tampon Tim" doesn’t have any of his tampons in there. I don't think he made it here.
Ari: It's been a really long 10 years of Trump campaigning, and he's finally wrapping it up. How do you think America has changed in this 10 years?
Rudy: I don't even think we understand. We're too close to it to see how it's changed. Certain events have a massive impact — the Kennedy assassination, Pearl Harbor, September 11. You don't realize until about eight or 10 years later how things changed.
He’s like a phenomenon. His first win, and I think tonight's win, made a big change in America. It's given a lot of people who felt alienated a place to attach themselves, which is wonderful.
Ari: One of the big issues Americans voted for this time around was crime. When you were mayor of New York City, you solved the crime problem — I live there now and see how it’s getting worse. What would your advice be to the next administration on handling the crime wave affecting the nation?
Rudy: You've got to go back to putting people in jail. It's really simple. I look at New York; I'll give you a straightforward analysis. There are 7,000 to 9,000 people walking the streets who rape, murder, rob — who would have been in jail under me or [former Mayor Michael] Bloomberg.
They changed the laws to let them out. Same thing in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia — all these Democrat cities have deliberately put criminals back on the street.
Now we have a new phenomenon, which I don’t think we’ll realize the impact of for at least a year or two. That’s the 14 to 20 million illegals, most of whom we don’t know at all. It’s ridiculous.
