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Giuliani: No 'successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks' in U.S. before Obama's presidency

Jill Ornitz

Giuliani: No 'successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks' in U.S. before Obama's presidency

Former New York mayor and Donald Trump surrogate Rudolph W. Giuliani told Trump's supporters Monday that the U.S. did not face "any successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks" before President Obama took office in 2008.

Giuliani's claim, of course, ignores the Sept 11 attacks and was especially notable because he was mayor of New York at the time, a position that has formed a pillar of his public identity since then.

Vice President Joe Biden once famously said of Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun and a verb and 9/11."

Political Twitter immediately seized on Giuliani's errant line:

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