New York is more than ever at the heart of the show. Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, two of its former mayors, are vying for media attention these days. The first, because he has just officially announced that he was running for the White House, by injecting tens of millions of dollars to try to beat Donald Trump, and the second for his murky role played in the Ukrainian affair at the origin of the impeachment proceedings against the American president.
The September 11 effect
Rudy Giuliani, 75, was mayor of New York between 1994 and 2001. Michael Bloomberg, 77, from 2002 to 2013. They are united by the attacks of September 11, which took place at the end of Giuliani’s mandate, when Bloomberg had to deal with the “after”. Today, the situation is most comical. It can be summed up as follows: a former mayor of the Big Apple wants to bring down New Yorker Donald Trump, one of whose most loyal lieutenants and personal lawyer is also a former mayor of the city.
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