The US presidential election is taking place in less than a week, on 5 November, so candidates are rushing to secure last-minute votes by holding campaign events.
Recently, at Republican presidential contender Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, an arena in New York, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed Hamas trains children as young as 2 years old to k*ll Americans.
However, as @DueDissidence podcast co-hosts pointed out, the audience standing behind Giuliani quieted down and did not cheer for his inflammatory pro-Israel remarks. Someone was also seen putting their thumbs down. Polls show the US population across the political spectrum does not support the US arming and funding Israel.
Giuliani, 80, has been disbarred in New York State and the District of Columbia, home to the US capital, for attempting to pursue lawsuits to overturn the 2020 presidential election results on Trump’s behalf. A court also ordered Giuliani to sell his New York apartment and memorabilia to pay $148 million in damages to two Georgia election workers who claimed he singled them out when he claimed they rigged ballots.
Before representing Trump in court, Giuliani was best known for how he handled the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks as New York’s mayor (1994-2001). However, he is also known for supporting a ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy that began during his first mayoral term that disproportionately searched and detained Black and Brown men. In 2013, a court ruled the policy unconstitutional.
Video credit: PBS News Hour (@NewsHour on X)
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/rudy-giuliani-bankruptcy-georgia-election-workers/index.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/016214506000001040
https://washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org/ws-articles/24-09-stop-and-frisk