Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday expanded on his fiery speech from the first night of the Republican National Convention, saying his remarks “came from my heart.”
“It came from what I saw happening to the police officers in Baton Rouge. It came from what I saw happen to the people in Nice, France, and the people in Orlando,” Giuliani told CNN’s Chris Cuomo in an interview from the convention floor that aired early Wednesday morning. “It came from watching an administration that has caved in to Islamic terrorism.”
According to Giuliani, the United States is “almost at the point where we have anarchy.”
“[W]here police officers are being called out on false missions to protect African-Americans, and then they get slaughtered the way the Black Panthers used to do,” he explained. “We need an American president who is going to be a leader. A man of strength. A man who can stand up and say, ‘No more.’ A man who can negotiate.”
Giuliani then took aim at Donald Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, saying she has been complicit in allowing the United States be pushed “around the world.”
“It has to stop,” he said. “We need somebody from out of Washington who can change it. And Donald Trump can change it.”
Cuomo then asked Giuliani why he believes Trump is the solution, and cited the rhetoric the Republican presidential nominee used following the police shootings in Baton Rouge as more pessimistic than optimistic.
“I believe that Donald Trump understands … He understands the injustices in America, he understands the injustices for the African-American community.”
Trump, Giuliani said, wants to cure these injustices “in a different way” such as better education for minorities and the poor through “choice, vouchers, charter schools.”
Trump will express these desires and he will do them once he is president, Giuliani said, by surrounding himself with “talented people” such as his vice presidential pick Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
“I have great confidence that [Trump] can change America,” Giuliani said.
