Rudy Giuliani's latest
Fox News appearance was dedicated to unfounded fear-mongering.The former
New York City mayor and current lawyer for
President Trump appeared on Laura Ingraham's The Ingraham Angle on Monday night to declare, without any sort of reasoning, that ongoing
protests throughout the U.S. are no longer about the killing of Black people by police."Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the Communists, and their allies," are trying to "do away with the police, they want to empty out our prisons," Giuliani said, which is the goal of some protesters. But then Giuliani launched into fear tactics, specifically claiming that "Black Lives Matter wants to come and take your house away from you. They want to take your property away from you." All throughout the rant, Ingraham nodded along.
The vast majority of protests against
police brutality have been peaceful, even as
protesters have called for the abolishment of law enforcement and prisons. But as The
Washington Post's Paul Waldman notes, Giuliani's sensationalist line of thinking is nothing unusual.