Giuliani: 'What I Did For New York, Donald Trump Will Do For America'
CLEVELAND (CBSNewYork) -- At the Republican National Convention Monday night, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said he fixed New York City and Donald Trump would do the same for the nation as a whole.
"I know we can change it, because I did it by chancing New York City from the crime capital of America to the safest large city in the United States. What I did for New York, Donald Trump will do for America," Giuliani said.
Giuliani said Trump has "accomplished great things in my city and all over the world." He said further that Trump is "a man with a big heart," who made major donations anonymously many times on behalf of such causes as police officers who were shot and firefighters who were hurt.
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"I am sick and tired of the defamation of Donald Trump by the Clinton campaign. I am sick and tired of it. This is a good man. And America should be sick and tired of this vicious, nasty campaign," Giuliani said.
Giuliani also said Trump would be tough on terrorism, and slammed President Barack Obama for failing to identify Islamic terrorism by name.
"I, for the purposes of the media, I did not say all of Islam…. I said Islamic extremist terrorism. You know who you are, and we're coming to get you," Giuliani said.
He said Obama called the San Bernardino shootings in December "workplace violence."
"This is why our enemies see us as weak and vulnerable," Giuliani said. "Donald Trump said the first step to defeating our enemies is to identify them properly and to identify the connections between them so we can see them and catch them."
Giuliani said Islamic terrorists had declared war against America, and if America is now it war, it must settle for nothing less than an "unconditional victory against them."
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He also accused Obama of enabling Iran's quest to become a nuclear power, and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for the Sept. 11, 2012 siege on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya.
Earlier in his speech, Giuliani also paid tribute to the nation's police officers, and said they protect everyone regardless of race, creed, color, or sexual orientation.
"What happened to, 'There's no black America, there's no white America, there is just America?'" he said.
Giuliani said Trump will "reassert America's position with the best values to lead the world."
