Transcript: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s speech at the RNC – Part 1

Part 1 of 3. Partial transcript of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 18, 2016:

Thank you. Thank you, New York! For a New Yorker for once on the ticket – Donald Trump.

I’m here to speak to you about a very serious subject – how to make America safe.

The vast majority of Americans today do not feel safe. They fear for their children. They fear for themselves. They fear for our police officers, who are being targeted, with a target on their back.

We pray for our police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge and their families. And we say thank you to the Cleveland Police Department for protecting us. Thank you!

We – we know – we know the risk you are taking, and we say thank you to every police officer and law enforcement agent who is out tonight protecting us – black, white, Latino, of every race, every color, every creed, every sexual orientation.

When they come to save your life, they don’t ask, if you are black or white. They just come to save you!

We also – we also reach out. We reach out our arms with understanding and compassion to those who have lost loved ones because of police shootings – some justified, some unjustified.

Those that are unjustified must be punished. Those that are justified, we must apologize to.

It’s time to make America safe again. It’s time to make America one again. One America!

What happened – what happened to – what happened to, there’s no black America, there’s no white America, there is just America?! What happened to it? Where did it go? How did it float away?

I know – I know we can change it because I did it by changing New York City from the crime capital of America to the safest large city in the United States.

What I did for New York, Donald Trump will do for America.

I have known Donald Trump for almost 30 years. And he has created and accomplished great things in my city and all over the world.

But beyond that, this is a man with a big heart. Every time New York suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help.

He’s not going to like my telling you this, but he did it anonymously. When police officers were shot, when firefighters were hurt, when people were in trouble, he came forward and he helped and he asked not to be mentioned.

Well, I am going to break my promise to him. I am going to mention it, this is a man with a big heart who loves people. All people. From the top, to the bottom, from the middle to the side.

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