Rudy Giuliani’s own 2008 presidential campaign was a notorious flop, but now he has an informal role in a much more successful campaign: Donald Trump’s.
“We’ve been talking. Donald and me, Donald and a few other friends who know politics. He calls to check things out or I’ll call him to say, ‘Donald, you’re going too far’ or ‘What you said was great’ or maybe ‘Change it a bit.’ It’s nothing formal. It’s kind of a running conversation,” Giuliani said. “There is candor and there is trust.”
Hmm. That’s more establishment input than we’d known Trump to have, but it’s also coming from someone who last won an election in the 1990s and spent a crazy amount of money to go nowhere in the 2008 Republican primary. But Trump feels that “Rudy is a very knowledgeable friend. I consider his counsel very important,” so now he’s got this very important validation of his policy chops?
“You know, he’s very good,” Giuliani said when asked about Trump’s grasp of complex policy. “It’s clear that he has an exceptionally good understanding of how the economy affects our foreign policy. He understands what’s happening with China, how they could stop North Korea in a heartbeat. This idea that he’s only familiar with slogans, it’s not accurate at all.”
And Rudy “noun, verb, 9/11” Giuliani should know from “only familiar with slogans.”