“If you want to see Joe Biden’s America, take a look” at the rise in crime and violence in the country, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Fox & Friends on Monday.
President Trump’s personal lawyer made the comment on the day the Republican National Convention will begin. Giuliani is scheduled to speak on Thursday, the day Trump is expected to formally accept his party’s nomination.
“If you want to watch Joe Biden’s America, look at Portland last night, where they had a riot, look at the woman who beat the other woman in the church yesterday, then look at the 51 shootings in New York. York and the four murders, “said Giuliani. “It all happens among mayors of Democrats, who are not really doing anything about it right now. “
Giuliani referred to another night of violence in Portland, Ore., A city that has experienced more than 80 consecutive nights of protests.
On Sunday, Portland police declared a riot at the city’s North Precinct after officers reported that Protestants threw rocks, bottles and shiny lasers in their direction.
A fire burned a mark on the northern part of the city late Sunday, news reports reported. Tear gas was expected to be deployed after the fire was started.
The latest unrest follows a violent protest on Saturday that was eventually sparked by federal authorities from a plaza near a federal building, as dual demonstrations in Portland by violent right-wing and left-wing protesters were violent, and 14 were arrested.
President Trump asked Oregon leaders again to seek federal assistance to stop the violence on Saturday, after Mayor Ted Wheeler and Goai Kate Brown, both Democrats, criticized his decision to deploy troops in the city to seize federal property to protect in July.
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Giuliani also referred to an incident at a church in Philadelphia, where a woman who had completed a lecture was punched when she left the altar on Sunday. The attack, which was captured on video, took place during the 11 a.m. Mass, which was streamed on Facebook Live from the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul.
“A Donald Trump America will become an America that is very much like we had before the pandemic in America that is focused on positive things,” Giuliani said.
He went on to say that Trump “will talk about problems” at the RNC, unlike Democrats who “did not mention a single issue” four days after the Democratic National Convention.
Giuliani said Trump “will talk in detail about how he wants to reduce taxes, how he wants to enforce regulations, especially in light of the pandemic and what it has done.”
“You need to make some changes,” Giuliani continued. “Who is better equipped to rejuvenate this economy, that will be a very complex task.”
He went on to note that the race is between “Joe Biden, who has never had a job, who in principle made his money from the government and his family to get money for his office” and “Donald “Trump, who has shown that he is capable of turning his business genius into one of our best presidents.”
“Our economy was the best ever when the pandemic hit,” Giuliani continued.
The unemployment rate in September, prior to the pandemic, was 3.5%, a 50-year low.
There’s no reason to believe him [Trump] can not get it right back there and any indicator is that we are a while ahead, ‘said Giuliani. “That I think we have a very, very uplifting message to give to the American people.”
“We can be as great as we want to be,” he continued. “We do not have to be a socialist country like Europe. We do not have to be a country that has a day of riots and an unusual number of murders like we once had when we Democrats had this country. ”
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He stresses that America “can be a safe country” and “the most prosperous in the world” with “the strongest military power on Earth, not because we want to show it, but because if we are not, it will Be China. ”
Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
