Giuliani’s pitch for Secretary of State: ‘I traveled as much as Hillary did’
Of course the nature of the travel was very different.
In two recent interviews, Mr. Giuliani, 72, said his years of work as an international security consultant make him uniquely suited for the job in the Trump administration, along with the hard lessons he learned as mayor of a city that sustained the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001.
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“I probably have traveled in the last 13 years as much as Hillary did in the years she was secretary of state,” Mr. Giuliani said, in a reference to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost the presidential race to Mr. Trump. “My knowledge of foreign policy is as good, or better, than anybody they’re talking to,” he said…
Mr. Giuliani has ties to TriGlobal Strategic Ventures, a consulting firm that aids Russian companies and has links to the Kremlin. According to the company’s website, the firm arranged in 2004 for Mr. Giuliani to travel to Moscow and meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and “other prominent Russian politicians and businessmen.” The firm also arranged other visits for Mr. Giuliani to visit Ukraine and Russia.
Mr. Giuliani said he had never lobbied the American government or anyone else on behalf of other countries or companies. According to a disclosure form he filed in 2007 for his failed bid for president, he took home $9.2 million for more than 100 speeches in 2006 and early 2007 after fees collected by the Washington Speakers Bureau.
The 2006 disclosure, the most detailed accounting of Mr. Giuliani’s business dealings since leaving the mayor’s office, shows that his income that year was $16.1 million, including from the speeches and partnerships. Among the groups that he appeared before are General Motors Co., Shell Oil, Oklahoma State University, Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
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