It’s open season on President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees and potential nominees. Left-stream media are pouring it on, hoping to derail any and all of them. New York Daily News one-time/sometimes sports writer Mike Lupica is one, blitzing Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a potential Trump pick for secretary of state. Giuliani is one of the Left's – and Lupica's – favorite targets right now.
Lupica writes that Giuliani is unqualified to serve as secretary of state in the new Trump Administration because he lacks the temperament for the job. Yet the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she of the mercurial temper, gets a free pass from Lupica on her long history of outrageous behavior in the public square.
According to Lupica, Giuliani has carried himself ever since 911 “as being the one guy who knows the most about keeping the country safe.”
Then Lupica asks:
Really? Who did he keep safe, exactly? Giuliani became an expert on terrorism after the planes hit the buildings. If that is his qualification for being secretary of state, he needs to get in line. He hasn’t been in training to be a diplomat since that time, just a fundraiser.
Pressing the attack, Lupica goes on to claim:
Giuliani is thrillingly unsuited for this position, especially in terms of temperament.There are some government jobs that can be inside jobs. Not this one. Giuliani’s occasionally unhinged performances, on the stump and on television, didn’t remind you so much of the hero mayor of Sept. 11, 2001, he reminded you of what he was like on Sept. 8 and 9 and 10, when he had New Yorkers counting the days until he left office, wandering around a second term like a punch-drunk fighter wandering around the ring.
The above link calls into question Giuliani's claim that Clinton wasn’t visible in New York in the aftermath of 911, but fails to substantiate he was “unhinged.” Charges of Clinton coming unhinged in the public arena are well documented and legendary.
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