Giuliani Slams de Blasio for Ending Crime Fighting Tools He Introduced

New York – Rudy Giuliani slammed his successor yesterday for ending crime fighting tools he brought in during his two terms as New York mayor in the 1990s, saying that Mayor Bill de Blasio “broke my heart” by ending the crackdown on quality of life crimes.
The Twitter war between the two of them has been ongoing for the past week, ever since de Blasio suggested that President Trump bore some of the blame for the Monsey attack Motzei Shabbos that wounded five Jews.

“He’s the mayor of the city of New York. He is in charge,” Giuliani told guest host, Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli, on Joe Piscopo’s WOR show. “And isn’t it fascinating that all of these communities that have been victimized by anti-Semitism … all of these communities, they love the president. They are his greatest supporters. You’re the mayor, you’re responsible, do your job.”

Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer who was wildly popular during his two terms leading New York that culminated with his leadership during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, accused de Blasio of forgetting about the Holocaust.
“It’s hard to say in a nice way, [but] he’s probably the worst mayor in my lifetime. He’s a failure as a leader, he does exactly the opposite. You’re supposed to take responsibility as a leader, and he forgot, or maybe he never learned, the great lessons of the Holocaust,” he said. “The two great lessons of the Holocaust are: ‘Never forget, and ‘Never ignore.’ Never ignore means you have to stand up to the first act of anti-Semitism.”
The former mayor said that hate crimes targeting Jews was up 29 percent this year, something he would have fired his police chief over.

“That has nothing to do with Bill Clinton, he was president when I was [mayor] and it has nothing to do with Donald Trump,” he added. “It has to do with you and the minute you think it doesn’t, you become a bad mayor, and he has become a very, very ineffective mayor in so many ways, but this is one that I think is inexcusable.”
“This man has broken my heart. He’s ruined things that I worked 24 hours a day, and my staff worked 24 hours a day, tremendous battles,” he said.

De Blasio struck back at previous criticism by Giuliani on Monday, saying that “it’s striking how out of touch Rudy Giuliani is at this point. He doesn’t even understand what’s happening in New York City. The NYPD very, very consistently deals with quality of life crimes, hate crimes, the smaller things like graffiti.”