On Friday night, the former US president attended a rally in Nevada where he bashed the two candidates he supported in the Republican primary, gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo and Senate candidate Adam Laxalt. Throughout the speech, the one-term president praised his candidates as “excellent,” but in classic Trumpian style, he soon veered from a pep talk to more muddled remarks about other talking points. At one point during his rally, held at the Treasure Island resort on the Las Vegas Strip as part of the former president’s campaign Save America PAC, he turned his speech to the issue of law and order. Or, more specifically, praising the work Mr. Giuliani accomplished while he was mayor of New York from 1994 to the end of 2001. “If America restores a proper approach to policing, prosecution and incarceration, we would immediately cut violent crime in our big cities,” Trump said, without citing any source for the figures. “Under the greatest mayor of New York in history, Rudy Giuliani, and he doesn’t know I would say this, he’s watching,” Trump began, before noting that his former adviser, who is a staunch defender of the two-time indictees. The president’s Big Lie was in the hospital “getting better.” “He had a heart problem,” he said, before blaming that heart problem on an unspecified “they.” “He’s in a hospital. Can you believe what they put Rudy in?’ Giuliani was subpoenaed this week by a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury investigating the former president’s efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, along with South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and several advisers and lawyers who played a key role role in the plan to overturn the results. On Tuesday, Mr Giulian’s son Andrew, who campaigned alongside his father for weeks in his failed bid for New York governor, confirmed in an interview that the former New York mayor had undergone heart stent surgery for to clear two blocked arteries. . “There was a little bit of fear in the Giuliani family,” Andrew Giuliani said while standing in for his father on his 77 WABC radio show. The younger Giuliani told the New York Post in an interview this week that his father reportedly experienced some discomfort while campaigning for the Republican gubernatorial campaign, but didn’t let it go until after the primary. Mr. Giuliani lost the Republican primary for governor to Rep. Lee Zeldin, who will now face Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in the November midterm elections. In the subpoena issued against Giuliani, Sen. Graham and other Trump loyalists, the grand jury is looking into whether they or Trump himself violated any Georgia law when there was an attempt to influence Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp to stop. certifying Mr. Biden’s victory in the state. Mr Trump’s next stop on the rally weekend will be in Alaska, where he will challenge Kelly Tshibaka, a Republican seeking to unseat Senator Lisa Murkowski – who famously voted to impeach Trump after his second impeachment trial after January 6th. Riot on Capitol Hill – on the GOP Senate ticket. The Alaska primary is scheduled for August 16.
