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And Riches disputes the notion that Giuliani provided any form of leadership on September 11 or in the days following.
"f somebody can tell me what he did on 9/11 that was so good, I’d love to hear it. All he did was give information on the TV" ... "He did nothing," Riches continued. "He stood there with a TV reporter and told everyone what was going on. And he got it from everybody else down at the site."

You da Man!
I've been saying that since .. oh .... 9-12-01. Rooty did squat. No 'leadership', no nothing. And certainly NOT anything 'heroic'.

And when Oprah gave him that b.s. 'America's Mayor' tag I almost puked. That amoral scum bag was NEVER my mayor. And he sure as hell won't be my POTUS.

And don't forget the atrocity of Giuliani placing the city’s emergency command center at 7 World Trade Center. He stupidly did this AFTER a previous WTC bombing.

The ECC was destroyed on 9/11. Julie-Annie then blamed a former aide for the decision.

The aide, Jerome M. Hauer, the former director of emergency management, fired back, giving Lloyd Grove of New York magazine a February 1996 memo that shows he argued for a Brooklyn location. He says the mayor overruled him.

Here is what Mr. Giuliani said on Fox News: "Jerry Hauer recommended that as the prime site and the site that would make the most sense. He recommended that site as the site that would be the best site. It was largely on his recommendation that that site was selected."

Mr. Hauer’s memo to First Deputy Mayor Peter J. Powers recommended the MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn: “The building is secure and not as visible a target as buildings in Lower Manhattan.” The World Trade Center had been bombed three years earlier.

Mr. Hauer told Lloyd Grove in an interview: "Rudy’s getting a lot of heat for the decision. He’s trying to run on his homeland-security and national-security background, and if you start peeling back the skin on the errors he made when he was mayor, you take away a lot of the basis for his candidacy… I feel sad that he would betray somebody that had served him loyally in the past, and I’m angry, too. But when you get to know Rudy, you know that this is the kind of thing he does. That’s just his personality."