Rudy Giuliani claimed he is more Jewish than liberal billionaire George Soros while ranting about the Ukraine scandal.
Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, claimed without evidence that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who testified in the impeachment hearings, is “controlled” by Soros.
“He put all four ambassadors there. And he’s employing the FBI agents,” Giuliani told New York Magazine in an interview published Monday.
“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” he said. “Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DA’s in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.”
Soros, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, has long been attacked by conspiracy theorists, particularly conspiracies about Jews controlling the world. Giuliani, meanwhile, was raised as a Roman Catholic.
One of Giuliani’s associates, Andriy Telizhenko, who traveled with him in Ukraine earlier this month, said he was unable to travel to the U.S. because of “Soros people.”
“Soros people are trying to discredit my reputation with lies and then will try to block me,” he told NBC News, without naming anyone or providing further proof.
