{"id":23110,"date":"2026-04-12T21:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/giuliani-thought-nyc-hit-rock-bottom-with-deblasio-then-came-mamdani\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:54:03","slug":"giuliani-thought-nyc-hit-rock-bottom-with-deblasio-then-came-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/giuliani-thought-nyc-hit-rock-bottom-with-deblasio-then-came-mamdani\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani Thought NYC Hit Rock Bottom With DeBlasio. Then Came Mamdani."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Rudy Giuliani is sharply criticizing New York City politics and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, arguing that the city he once led is moving away from the reforms and identity he fought to build during his tenure as mayor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Speaking in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=840XLrUFcFA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cPod Force One\u201d<\/a>, Giuliani said his reaction to the current direction of the city is emotional and personal, describing it as \u201cheartbroken\u201d and rooted in decades of attachment to New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udca5NEW: Rudy Giuliani on Zohran Mamdani\ud83e\udd2f\ud83d\udc94<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart is broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think it could get worse than de Blasio. I really didn\u2019t. I thought, \u2018Well, that\u2019s it. Now we had the worst mayor.\u2019 WOW!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kEyUoIKnoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/kEyUoIKnoe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Cohen \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonJournoDC\/status\/2043348364981395456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cThe situation with New York, in a pure way, was a love affair,\u201d Giuliani said. \u201cI love New York. I love the city. I love what I did as mayor. I put my whole heart and soul into it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">He added that his connection to the city goes beyond politics. \u201cA lot of people love New York, but nobody loves it more than I do,\u201d he said, pointing to his lifelong identity as a fan of the Yankees, Knicks, and Rangers as part of that bond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Giuliani, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2001 and is widely credited with a major drop in crime during that period, said he believes the city is now in decline under its current leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI just think New York is potentially the greatest city on Earth and has been,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd what he\u2019s doing to it \u2026 I didn\u2019t think it could get worse than de Blasio. I really didn\u2019t. I thought, well, that\u2019s it. Now he had the worst mayor. Wow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Giuliani then escalated his criticism, framing Mamdani\u2019s politics as part of a broader ideological threat. \u201cHe combines two things that I have been studying and fighting against since I was a child,\u201d Giuliani said. \u201cHe\u2019s a communist and he\u2019s a violent supporter of violent Muslim religion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">He went on to reference his early academic study of comparative religion, saying he had examined Islamic texts from a young age and concluded that they promoted violence in ways he found deeply troubling. He also stressed that he believes most Muslims are peaceful, while warning against what he sees as silence from within the broader community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cThe vast majority of Muslims are good people \u2026 but Muslims don\u2019t stand up,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what happens \u2026 good men do nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Giuliani extended his criticism beyond New York, warning about what he sees as broader cultural and political shifts in Western cities, suggesting that similar dynamics are emerging in Europe as well. Joking about a comment he made to Piers Morgan, \u201cCharles the Third is gonna become an Imam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">At the center of his remarks was a broader warning about what he views as ideological extremism taking hold in urban leadership, and a call for renewed political opposition to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Giuliani closed by reiterating his deep personal connection to New York and his belief that the city\u2019s future is at risk if current trends continue, framing his comments as both a political critique and a personal lament for a city he once led through crisis and rebuilding.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/giuliani-thought-nyc-hit-rock-bottom-with-deblasio-then-came-mamdani\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani is sharply criticizing New York City politics and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, arguing that the city he once led is moving away from the reforms and identity he fought to build during his tenure as mayor. Speaking in on \u201cPod Force One\u201d, Giuliani said his reaction to the current direction of the city is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}