Rudy Giuliani removes himself from Trump Secretary of State consideration

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Rudy Giuliani removes himself from Trump Secretary of State consideration

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Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani will not be Secretary of State, according to a report.
(Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Brian Niemitz Christopher Brennan
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, December 9, 2016, 3:46 PM

Mayor Rudy Giuliani will not be president-elect Donald Trump's Secretary of State.

America’s Mayor was once considered to be at the top of the running to become the nation’s top diplomat.

However, a release from the Trump transition team said that Giuliani, a visible face for Trump on the campaign trail, withdrew his name from consideration for a position in the new administration on Nov. 29, according to a statement.

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"Before I joined the campaign I was very involved and fufilled by my work with my law firm and consulting fir, and I will continue that work with even more enthusiasm," the former mayor, who is a Vice Chairman on the transition team, said of the decision.

Trump has 'broadened' list of secretary of state candidates

Giuliani had at times openly lobbied for the position, touting his foreign policy chops and telling the Wall Street Journal last month, “I probably have traveled in the last 13 years as much as Hillary did in the years she was secretary of state.”

However, concerns were raised that part of Giuliani’s international experience came from his business ties to countries including Qatar and Venezuela.

Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson is thought to be on the list of possible candidates.
(Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg)
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said last month that the financial dealings were a "hornet's nest" and that some Republicans may oppose a Giuliani nomination.

Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the decision to withdraw his name.

LUPICA: Giuliani did nothing to earn top State Department job

There was some concern that the former mayor could become a critic of the administration if he does not get the top diplomatic job, a source close to the transition team told the Daily News.

Giuliani was said to want Secretary of State after defending Trump during some of the darker moments of his campaign, but may have been happy with other roles in the Trump administration such as ambassador to Italy.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been a consistent name on the transition team’s Secretary of State list, which is now thought to include retired Gen. David Petraeus, former ambassador to the UN John Bolton and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson.

 

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NYC's former mayor will reportedly not be the next secretary of state.


Rudy Giuliani won’t be Trump’s secretary of state
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson and former Ford Motor Company CEO Alan Mulally are on the short list for the job.
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John Vardon I hope they find something else for him. I love Rudy, he really backed up trump during the campaign and took a lot of heat but didn't back down.
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Tufairi B Kawawa He's not good looking. He's ugly. All his insults and attacks on Clinton and Obama went in vain. Trump's criteria is good looking people (and that's why he wants Mitt Romney). Okeeeey?

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Harley Featherstone What! Do you realize what you typed in your statement
It's totally ridiculous

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Heather Carbone Why do all black people hate Trump? He will actually do more for blacks than obama or hillary ever did.
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Tufairi B Kawawa Have you forgotten how Trump despised fellow Republicans (who were contesting for the nominations for the US Presidency)?
- Ugly
- Fat
- Not good looking...
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Deb Smith How long have you had a thing for Romney ??
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Julie Ann Furney Wow from the way you look, its safe to assume the same of you.
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Misty Barden Liberal tears are the best

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Julie Ann Furney Kleenex stock must be booming!!
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Tufairi B Kawawa To the wretched psychopaths and schizophrenic morons with their abusive comments, NOTE that my comment is actually a PARODY, Trump himself was repeatedly despising fellow Republican presidential nominee contenders as being FAT, UGLY, not good looking, etc.
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Joe Cosentino Sharon Ambersley I didn't know dummies make 5 billion if that's the case you must be retarded
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Timothy Ach Mayor G was the best mayor in my time,,, but his tempermant is not Sec of St, tempermant. I luv Rudy but he's a little off. And I'm a NYer, not à FAKE BK douchebag from Ohio.
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Cindy Thurn Maybe he could spend his free time looking for his soul which he lost during the election
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JR Robinson Rudy was on his knees for trump all this time for nothing

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Anthony Cassone So no Newt or Christie or Rudy.3 people who had Trump's Back.Drain what swamp Donald? Swamp is turning into a ocean
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Brent Taylor Finally, a step in the right direction....
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Rick del Guidice He was a federal prosecutor and helped dismantle the mafia. As Mayor of NYC, and made the city safe again. He showed great leadership after 911, so much so there was talk of extending his term. A very accomplished career, more so than most.
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Alex Hammer Lmfaoooooo but that dorito taste on his tongue will last forever lol
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Thomas Adamo When Mitt Romney fails as SOS, hopefully PEDJT will move Jeff Sessions to state and bring Rudy in as AG. That's a natural for Rudy.
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Blair Boyer he turned down Att Gen and Homeland Security chief...Trump will find something for him...
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Tim Wilson ...looking like it might be Romney...he's been twisting in the wind long enough...
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Rick Jammes Rudy must be pissed

he was all happy

like I got this in the bag

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Larry Gfellner He got trumped!! Lispy idiot!! Crawl up his butt Rudy that is where you belong!
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Henry Kroll III He's been working on that grumpy cat face.

Hook generators up to those frown muscles and get free power.
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Kim Oliver-Richards I still think he would be perfect for homeland security
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Adrienne Schneider My heart hurts for Rudy. I wish he would have accepted Home Land Security or Attorney General! But he said no to all except SOS!

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Belle Starr If he has to name Mitt for any position, it should be Dept of Commerce.
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Michael Taylor rudy please move to the side of the room over there by christie
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Benjamin Amos Photoshopped with 2 bad photos. Now that's journalistic integrity....
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Charles McNeill ... . : Trump is just a figure head; he may think he is control) but it is the neoliberalism Wall Street establishment, (trickle down economics self serving republican ideology), Republican Party or Bannon ~ Pence ~ Paul Ryan that will be appointing people and running the federal government as their own piggy bank and fundamentalists Christian church ~ metaphorically speaking ~~~ ~
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Calvin A. Romero Why his face like that?
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[Mrfreddygoodbud]

lol trump played him, rudy aint turn shit down, he just tryin to save face...

was he even offered homeland security???

so glad that clown got played now send him back to the circus...

 

[hocjo2626]

Now, I wonder since he knows he got played, will he begin to anonymously leak all that illegal crooked shit they did with the Russians to win the election in order to take Trump down.

 

[QueEx]

Now, I wonder since he knows he got played, will he begin to anonymously leak all that illegal crooked shit they did with the Russians to win the election in order to take Trump down.

LOL . . . like a jilted lover !

 

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ROTFLMBAO! ALL ABOVE!

 

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Trump thought Giuliani ‘lacked stamina’ to be secretary of state
By Daniel Halper.

December 14, 2016 | 7:32am | Updated

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Donald Trump worried that Rudy Giuliani might lack the stamina to fulfill the duties of secretary of state, according to a report.

Once a leading candidate to be America’s top diplomat, Giuliani fell out of favor, in part because Trump began to question the 72-year-old’s fitness, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited an unnamed transition official.

Giuliani strongly disagreed, telling the paper: “My stamina is unbelievable.”

The former mayor, who was one of the billionaire’s fiercest loyalists on the campaign trail, has said he has so far passed on two cabinet postings in the Trump administration, without specifying which posts.

Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil, was announced Tuesday as Trump’s choice to be secretary of state.

In his younger days, Giuliani had plenty of stamina to work with Trump in some pretty unexpected ways:.

 

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trump has dirt on a lot of people and there is no way he wanted this

nut case associated with him..

he used him then kicked him to the curb...

lol

 

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Donald Trump passed on Rudy Giuliani for secretary of state post due to concerns over former mayor’s stamina: report
BY Adam Edelman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 11:06 AM

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In an interview Tuesday, Giuliani, who had taken himself out of consideration for the job in late November, claimed he was too busy for the gig and simply "not necessary" for the cabinet.
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Among the reasons why President-elect Donald Trump passed on asking Rudy Giuliani to be his secretary of state were fears that the 72-year-old former New York Mayor lacked the stamina for the globe-trotting job, according to reports Wednesday.

Giuliani, once seen as the top contender for the prestigious post, fell out of consideration, in part, because Trump "was concerned" over his longtime surrogate's "stamina" for the job, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing a member of the mogul's transition team.

The Washington Post also reported Wednesday that Trump has grown "increasingly concerned" over Giuliani's fitness for the job, even telling confidants that the former mayor was "past his prime and might not have the stamina or discipline to travel the globe and negotiate delicate matters."

Giuliani, when asked by The Journal over those descriptions replied, "my stamina is unbelievable."

Giuliani removes himself from Trump Secretary of State contention

In an interview Tuesday, Giuliani, who had taken himself out of consideration for the job in late November, claimed he was too busy for the gig and simply "not necessary" for the cabinet.

But the former mayor, who aggressively campaigned for and defended Trump throughout the tumultuous 2016 race, did indeed face a handful of embarrassing incidents over the course of the trail indicating he might have lost a step.

Trump was concerned over his longtime surrogate's stamina for the job, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
(Scott Olson/Getty Images)
In August, he appeared on ABC's "This Week" program with a giant bump on his forehead as he rambled on about Hillary Clinton's shortcomings.

He didn't address the wound during the interview but later told the Daily News that he had fallen in the shower after getting a cramp in his leg.

A rep for Giuliani later told The News that he'd hurt himself when he "got up in the middle of the night to use facilities and banged into bathroom door."

Trump's reported rationale for passing on Giuliani is particularly ironic, considering the duo continually insulted Clinton over her own "stamina" issues.

During the campaign, Trump repeatedly blasted Clinton as "weak" and said she lacked the "stamina" to serve in the Oval Office, while Giuliani once said on national television that voters should "go online and put down ''Hillary Clinton illness' and take a look at the video for yourself."

 

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Kim O'Connor Trump had no more use for you so he threw him to the gutter.
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Ronin Ryin At the Bishops dinner, where candidates poke fun at one another, he didn't break a smile at Hillarys joke about him calling Trump a genius. If you can't take a joke at your own expense, you probably lack the interpersonal skills required to smooth over rocky negotiations.
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Dellarika Diehl Lost his stamina or maybe he just lost his mind???? I never saw anyone get crazier than him. He was normal back in the day but I don't know what happened to him....
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Natasha Bitter Giuliani is only 2 years older than that orange colostomy bag.
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Jerry Savage Trump milked him for what he wanted, then discarded him. That's what he does.
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Mori Chanel Good riddance, and take those teeth with you Rudy! yuck! #sillyrepublicans#impeachtrump
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Mbah Pascal i am convinced that Rudy will soon get his greatest shock, this is just the beginning!!!!
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Inez Morrow Yea right he did !!!!!!!! he's trying to save face old buzzard i never liked him how does it feels to be kicked to the crub for all the lying u did for the orange one ????????? SUCKER GO HAVE LUNCH WITH CHRISTIE
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Inez Morrow Couldn't have happen to a nicer guy (scarasm) you old dehabinated fool
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Juliet Palmer-Pennicott That's was one of his main concern about Hillary too!
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Felix Martinez De Pablo When are these guys going to stop LYING?
I don't see an end to it.
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Ophie Patacsil AHA HA HA HA . . Guiliani's attacks on HRC's health boomeranged on him . .He thought 'it's in the bag." . . . .Who has the last laugh now???
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Rick Shupper He's insane----even by Trump's standards
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Randy Cramm I thought it was because Rudy had to be back at the old age home by 6pm.
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Wendy Jackson He was a Horrible mayor in NYC and who cares anyhow?
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Peter Kabza I didn't bother to read the article if that's ok still to make a comment to say probably because the former mayor is one whacky mofo, ya that no?
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Jeffrey Knight Drumpf is five pounds short of officially being obese, and takes statins for cholesterol.
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Allison O'Donoghue Nut job
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Nicki Weller Because he's a crazy old man?
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Zafar Bhatti Uncle good ol rudy got booted lmao
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Michael DeRousselle Those bad bottom teeth?
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Larry Thomas Maybe because everyone knows he's a fu@king nut job.
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Computer Whiz Rudy Giuliani Will Head Cybersecurity Team For Trump
by Rebecca Fishbein in News on Jan 12, 2017 10:37 am

"And from now on all websites will end with 911.html!" (Getty)
It's been a while since we've heard from Rudy "My stamina is unbelievable" Giuliani, but it appears the Trump administration has retrieved him from the forest behind Hagrid's house and given him a job. The former Mayor of 9/11 Town will now head a new cyber security committee for Trump. So who's gonna break it to Barron?

Team Trump announced the move on its website, noting that Giuliani "will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend concerning private sector cyber security problems and emerging solutions developing in the private sector." It's not clear exactly what Giuliani will be doing with the team, but based on previous statements made by the President-elect, he will hopefully stop us from getting "hacked by other countries and other people." As Trump noted at his press conference yesterday, we have "much hacking going on" by, maybe Russia, who knows, also probably China, really could be anyone.

Anyway, Rudy'll fix it. "One of the things we’re going to do —we have some of the greatest computer minds anywhere in the world that we've assembled," Trump said yesterday, apparently referring, in part, to this mind:

Giuliani addressed his new gig on Fox & Friends this morning. “The President-elect decided that he wanted to bring in, on a regular basis, the people in the private sector, the corporate leaders in particular, the thought leaders, who were working on security for cyber. Because we're so far behind.” he said. It seems Giuliani and Trump have some sort of plan to rid the world of hackers, though like most things in Trump's America, it defies articulation: "It’s his belief, which I share, that a lot of the solutions are out there, we’re just not sharing them. It’s like cancer. You know, there’s cancer research going on all over the place—you’d almost wish they’d get together in one room and maybe we’d find a cure." Huh.

Giuliani, a man who never bothered to make a Twitter account, has yearned to be America's #1 Cyber Guy for some time now, having co-run a cyber-security consulting firm for the last decade or so. But as Gizmodo pointed out in November, Giuliani doesn't actually appear to know that much about cybersecurity, other than that investing in it makes you a boatload of money.

My own cybersecurity expertise begins and ends with the knowledge that "rebecca12345" is not a good password, but cybersecurity expert Drew Mitnick told Gizmodo, "Only by understanding technology and its vulnerabilities can policymakers successfully address online threats without creating new, more significant risks. In any cybersecurity discussions, policymakers must include technologists as well as the people whose safety and security are most directly affected."

More importantly: "They must also act with the understanding that the rights that exist offline, such as privacy and freedom of expression, exist equally as strongly online."

Online privacy! Freedom of expression! Constitutional civil rights on the Internet! I'm sure Giuliani will protect those just fine.