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Source: TPM
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that he was using abbreviated language when he claimed that the U.S. had seen no terror attacks carried out by Islamic extremists before President Barack Obama came into office.
"You speak in somewhat abbreviated language," he told the New York Daily News by way of explaining his Monday introduction for Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio. "All human beings speak in abbreviated language at times."
Given Giulianis frequent invocations in public appearances of his experience as mayor during 9/11, reporters immediately noticed when he said that the threat from terrorist groups started when Obama took office in 2009.
Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States, he told the crowd in Ohio.
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Come on people, he was just being sarcastic