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.
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