Rudy Giuliani’s speech at a 9/11 memorial dinner touched on a wide array of extraneous topics. At one point, Giuliani recounted meeting Queen Elizabeth II and imitated her praising him for his leadership in a poor British accent before assuring the room that he did not — nor has he ever — hung out with the now-disgraced Prince Andrew. “I never went out with him! Never ever!” Giuliani exclaimed. “Never had a drink with him. Never was with a woman or a young girl with him. Ever ever ever.”
Giuliani also went off on Gen. Mark Milley, wondering aloud, “How is that guy a general?” regarding Milley’s recommendation to close Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, according to the New York Post. He continued, “I wanted to grab his — what does he have, five stars? Ten stars? Twelve stars? He has so many stars they’re coming up to his ears. I wanted to grab his stars and shove it down his throat and say, ‘It’s 400 miles from China, a**hole! China is going to be our enemy for the next 40 years! You have an airbase 400 miles from them and you’re giving it up? Idiot!”
Former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski claimed on Twitter that Giuliani was “drunk out of his mind,” but TMZ reports that sources close to the former mayor say that was not the case. Giuliani has yet to comment.