Rudy Giuliani is livid this morning over last night’s debate moderator, Lester Holt, and how he misportrayed ‘stop and frisk’. In fact he says Trump should skip the reset of the debates unless he can get assurances that the moderators won’t act like ‘ignorant fact checks’:
THE HILL – “If I were Donald Trump, I wouldn’t participate in another debate unless I was promised the journalist would act like a journalist, and not an ignorant fact check,” Giuliani said late Monday night in the post-debate spin room, according to video provided by Bloomberg.
“My advice would be the moderator would have to promise they’d be a moderator.”But although Trump praised Holt immediately after the debate, Giuliani gave a scathing review of the moderator, claiming his “interference” in a discussion about policing in New York was “outrageous.”
“If journalism has ethics, Lester Holt unethically interfering in the area of law he knows nothing about,” Giuliani said.
“It is not unconstitutional and Trump’s description of that case was correct.”
The argument in question came after Holt claimed “stop and frisk,” a controversial program Giuliani approved as mayor of New York in which police search people they stop for questioning, “was ruled unconstitutional in New York” for its impact on minorities.
That practice has been criticized as disproportionately targeting minorities. A circuit court judge ruled the practice unconstitutional, but a higher court never settled the question.
Current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stopped the program.
Here’s the video from Fox and Friends this morning:
Rudy Giuliani: Lester Holt was "dead wrong" last night pic.twitter.com/JVjGfJefCd
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) September 27, 2016