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BIZARRE: Unhinged rudy giuliani drank and ranted about islam new book claims - What They Never Told You

Rudy Giuliani speaks in Washington in September 2016.
Rudy Giuliani speaks in Washington in September 2016. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

At a law firm dinner in New York in May 2016, an “unhinged” Rudy Giuliani, then Donald Trump’s suggested pick to head a commission on “radical Islamic terrorism”, behaved in a drunken and Islamophobic manner, horrifying clients and attorneys alike.

According to a new book by Geoffrey Berman, a former US attorney for the southern district of New York (SDNY), at one point Giuliani turned to a Jewish man “wearing a yarmulke [who] had ordered a kosher meal” and, under the impression the man was a Muslim, said: “I’m sorry to have tell you this, but the founder of your religion is a murderer.”

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