This week's Democratic National Convention has been the "most anti-police, anti-law enforcement convention" former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he's seen in his whole life, claiming he was told that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton didn't want uniformed officers on the convention floor
"I was told that by four high-ranking Philadelphia police officers, two of whom I know for a long time," Giuliani told
Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "I walked the floor two nights. I couldn't find a single uniformed police officer. Go look at your footage. You find me a uniform."
Instead, he said that Clinton wanted Secret Service officers, dressed in suits but not uniforms.
"If I was the mayor of this city, I wouldn't have allowed you to have the convention if I didn't have my cops on the floor," said Giuliani. "Suppose somebody got shot or killed? And my cops are not going to be there? And if you want an anti-police convention, this is the most anti-police, anti-law enforcement convention I have ever seen in my whole life."
He also complained that there were no American flags on the convention stage in the beginning, and now they're up in a corner after Republicans pointed out the lack of flags.
"Gee, we don't want somebody to see the American flag and no uniformed police because it might annoy the people at the convention?" said Giuliani.
Giuliani also said he found the chants of "no more war" while former CIA Director Leon Panetta was speaking were disturbing.
"I have a friend who's now deceased who was a judge in Philadelphia," said the former mayor. "He used to tell me every once in awhile, I don't know why I'm a Republican. I get annoyed at the party. Then I watch a Democratic Convention and I say to myself, 'Now I know why I'm a Republican.'"
The chanters, are "so stupid, it's ridiculous," said Giuliani.
"The president of France said Islamic extremism terrorism is at war with us," said Giuliani. "We must be at war with them. So those idiots are yelling and screaming that they're going to be at war with us, and we're going to sit back and just let them kill us. Like in Orlando and in San Bernardino and Nice."
And he wondered if the same people will chant during Clinton's acceptance speech, because she voted for the war in Iraq.
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