Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's (R) daughter said she thinks the biggest threat to America is former President Trump.
Caroline Giuliani has spoken out in recent days about her father’s entanglements with Trump and the upcoming election. She joined CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday, elaborating on a recent Vanity Fair op-ed in which she announced she's backing Vice President Harris.
“I want to be clear that I do believe that everyone needs to be accountable for their own actions, but right now, the biggest threat to our country is Trump,” she told Burnett.
Caroline Giuliani in the Vanity Fair piece wrote she has been “grieving the loss” of her dad to Trump. She said in the op-ed that her father, who was recently disbarred in Washington, D.C., and has filed for bankruptcy after a defamation case with Georgia election workers, is “stuck in the quicksand of his own problems.”
In her interview Wednesday, Caroline Giuliani said she thinks it's important to look at the culture Trump created, including the way he has refused to accept his loss in the 2020 presidential election and how the former president got her father, and others, to “compromise their values” and “do anything to keep him in power.”
She pointed to the two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who brought the defamation case against her father. Giuliani baselessly accused the mother-daughter duo of committing election fraud in 2020, and a jury awarded the women a $148 million defamation verdict. That incident, Caroline Giuliani argued, shows Trump is “willing to hurt his own people just to have power.”
“And Kamala Harris would never do that,” she said. “She’s fought for the people her whole career. We need to elect her.”
Caroline Giuliani was asked if she’s worried her father will go to prison. She said she doesn’t like to think about it and instead tries to focus on the future.
“I know that we don’t have a future as a country, at least not in any recognizable … form, if we do not vote for Kamala Harris, because Trump has already made it very clear he’s going to try to do the exact same thing in 2024,” Caroline Giuliani said.
“He is going to try to … say that he won this election no matter what the actual result is. So we need to get out there and vote so that it is indisputable,” she added.
The Hill has reached out to a representative for Giuliani and the Trump campaign for comment.
