Rudy Giuliani, then New York City mayor, considered a run for a U.S. Senate seat in 2000 against Hillary Clinton. He did not run, and Clinton won a tough race against Rick Lazio. Now Giuliani is finally waging the New York–style "brutish bout under a white-hot spotlight" he'd envisioned 16 years ago, only this time on behalf of longtime friend and alter-ego Donald Trump, say Philip Rucker and Robert Costa at The Washington Post, and both Trump and Giuliani are "carrying personal grudges and considering no attack out of bounds."
Giuliani spoke at Trump's Republican National Convention, and he introduces Trump at private fundraisers and campaign rallies. Warming up for Trump at a rally in Akron, Ohio, on Monday, for example, Giuliani lashed out at Clinton for the situation in Libya and specifically the 2012 attack in Benghazi, accusing her of being "grossly negligent as secretary of state with the lives of our citizens." Rucker and Costa note what happened next:
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