Asked about past indiscretions, Rudy Giuliani says 'everybody' commits infidelity
When you're a teenager, the "everybody else is doing it" excuse doesn't fly. When you're former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, it's a legitimate defense.
On Sunday's Meet the Press, Giuliani brought up the "long, long history of Bill Clinton," adding that when Hillary Clinton first heard about Monica Lewinsky, she had to "pretend for five or six months that it was false." Host Chuck Todd asked the twice-divorced Donald Trump surrogate — who as mayor of New York sent the rumor mill churning about an affair with a top aide while still married to his second wife — if he was "the right person to level this charge." "Yeah, I'm the right person to level this charge, because I've never made such a charge, and I've prosecuted people who've committed rape," Giuliani shot back.
Todd pressed him further, reminding Giuliani that he had his "own infidelity charges" in the past. "Well, everybody does," Giuliani responded. After painting the world with a scarlet A, he continued, "And I'm a Roman Catholic, and I confess those things to my priest." He didn't appreciate Todd's line of questioning, later saying, "I think you bringing up my personal life is kind of irrelevant. She's running for president, I'm not." Giuliani's first marriage, to his second cousin, Regina Peruggi, ended in 1982. His second wife, Donna Hanover, found out about Giuliani's plan to separate from her at a press conference in 2000, during which he also praised his soon-to-be third wife Judith Nathan, calling her a "very, very fine woman." Nathan and Giuliani married in 2003, and so far, so good. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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