White House Press Secretary: ‘People Are Feeling…Sorry for Rudy Giuliani
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Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Responding to comments made earlier this week by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that “people are feeling…sorry for Rudy Giuliani.”
At a private dinner featuring Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday, Giuliani said that he “[does] not believe that the president loves America,” Politico said. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”
Earnest and the White House Press Office promised to provide a list of instances in which President Obama has publicly professed his love for the United States.
One example, Earnest said, was at the end of his most recent State of the Union address, when Obama concluded with “God bless this country we love.”
“It’s sad to see when a person who’s received a certain stature and admiration to tarnish that legacy so thoroughly,” Earnest said of the former New York City mayor.
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