Andrew Giuliani: 9/11 first responders pulled off ‘one of many best rescue missions’ in US historical past

New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani hailed New York Metropolis first responders, as he mirrored on the Sept. 11 assaults 20 years in the past. 

Giuliani, the son of former New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in an interview with Fox Information, mentioned the sentiments he remembers most about Sept. 11, 2001, had been a “mixture of anger and deep disappointment.” 

“It was one of many best rescue missions within the historical past of our nation, with the FDNY, NYPD, Port Authority law enforcement officials, working to avoid wasting tens of 1000’s of New Yorkers, of Individuals,” Giuliani mentioned. “Take into consideration that heroism – they didn’t know what they had been truly getting themselves into.” 

Giuliani, on the time, was a freshman in highschool. He recalled being taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Excessive College in New Jersey that morning – about 20 minutes outdoors of New York Metropolis. 

2 MORE 9/11 VICTIMS IDENTIFIED NEARLY 20 YEARS LATER WITH NEW DNA TECHNOLOGY

“We had been driving over the George Washington Bridge that morning, and I bear in mind the final time seeing the Twin Towers, in all probability about 90 minutes or so earlier than the primary airplane hit,” Giuliani mentioned. “I’ll always remember that day, and driving over the bridge, you’d see the Empire State Constructing, and the Twin Towers, distinctly within the skyline, and the Statue of Liberty.” 

Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York Metropolis Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, speaks throughout a information convention to launch his Republican marketing campaign for governor of New York in 2022, in Manhattan in New York Metropolis, New York, U.S., Might 18, 2021.  REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York Metropolis Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, speaks throughout a information convention to launch his Republican marketing campaign for governor of New York in 2022, in Manhattan in New York Metropolis, New York, U.S., Might 18, 2021.  REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

“It’s a second that offers a definite earlier than and after in our world – actually as New Yorkers and Individuals – however so many individuals felt our world modified on that day,” he mentioned. 

When requested whether or not rising up in a post-9/11 New York Metropolis had an impression on his present political objectives, Giuliani mentioned it’s “tough to inform if it influenced me to run.” 

“However politics and coverage grew to become ubiquitous – coverage results all of those points that ended up resulting in that second, and from that second on, how to ensure a second like that by no means occurred once more,” Giuliani mentioned. 

“There was this motion to defund the police over the past yr and a half,” he continued. “We want to ensure our police are absolutely funded, and ensure they’ve the sources we want within the counterterrorism unit – top-of-the-line on the planet – we have to make it possible for isn’t hollowed out, and ensure they’ll do their job to stop one other terrorist assault from that stage ever occurring in New York once more.” 

CIA PSYCHOLOGIST WHO INTERROGATED 9/11 MASTERMIND SAYS GITMO ‘DELAYING JUSTICE’

Giuliani, pointing to the anti-police marches and protests over the past 18 months, mentioned he thinks about “these law enforcement officials and first responders and firefighters and Port Authority officers and the rescue mission they carried out on Sept. 11.” 

“I want extra individuals who consider in defund the police would truly take into consideration all the positives that our police do, day in and time out, and that they’ll proceed to do,” Giuliani mentioned. “Our law enforcement officials can be a few of the first folks within the constructing conducting a rescue mission immediately – the best way they did on 9/11 20 years in the past.” 

He added: “I want a few of the folks main the cost of defund the police would have that perspective, like so many people who lived that day have.” 

In the meantime, Giuliani remembered that on his solution to college on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, passing the Twin Towers “for the final time,” he was discussing the New York Giants who had simply misplaced in “Monday Evening Soccer” the night time earlier than. 

“I bear in mind considering later within the day simply how inconsequential our dialog was,” he mentioned. “However we noticed later within the yr what truly sports activities might do for our metropolis and our nation, and it gave so many households and first responders that had gone by way of absolutely the worst of occasions a couple of moments to really get pleasure from one thing that brings our metropolis collectively, like a soccer recreation or a baseball recreation.” 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Giuliani added: “It was much less about successful and shedding, and extra about coming collectively, saying you’re not going to destroy our American lifestyle.” 

“Whether or not we vote crimson or blue, or we’re White or Black or Jewish or Christian, all of us had been coming collectively as New Yorkers, and as Individuals, and we’ll defend our lifestyle even below the worst assault,” he mentioned. 

Supply