What exactly were his duties as a "public liaison assistant "? According to the Atlantic:
The public-liaison office deals with outreach to outside coalitions, and several of the current and former administration officials I spoke to for this story said Giuliani helps arrange sports teams’ visits to the White House.
...Others who have worked with Giuliani offered a different take on his White House tenure. “He doesn’t really try to be involved in anything,” one former senior White House official told me, speaking on the condition of anonymity in order to be candid. “He’s just having a nice time.”
... A second former senior White House official plainly called it “a nepotism job.”
He also was described as Donald Trump's traveling golf buddy:
And as the person with one of the better golf handicaps in Trump’s inner circle, Giuliani sometimes traveled with the president for the sole purpose of joining him for a round or two.
Andrew made the news again when the media learned he had an out-sized west-wing clearance pass for his role and former Chief of Staff John Kelley revoked it and Rudy went nuts:
Kelly revoked Andrew’s West Wing access, disrupting the staffer’s otherwise freewheeling setup. Giuliani “flipped out” about the downgrade, the third former official said. Four of the former officials said Giuliani’s father immediately spoke about it with Trump, who then ordered Kelly to restore Giuliani’s pass and promote him to special assistant to the president. “Kelly just wouldn’t,” the third former official said. “Trump would think it was done. Then it wasn’t … It was classic Kelly. Just ignore and assume Trump will forget.” Kelly, the source added, “said the staff reported to him, not Trump, so it was for him to decide.”
Later, Kelly's successor Mick Mulvaney restored Andrew's privileges.
In January, 2020, the Irish Times ran an article labeling him
Donald Trump's Golf-Pro in Residence. It aptly described Andrew's public life beginning with his performance at his father's swearing-in as Mayor when he was just 7 years old:
Giuliani has been in the public eye since 1994 when, as a precocious seven-year-old, he stood next to his father while he made his inaugural address as mayor. As Rudy laid out his plans for cleaning up the city and remaking it as capital of the world, Andrew hammed it up on the podium beside him, blowing kisses to the cameras, mimicking his dad’s every hand gesture and even shouting out random declarations like, “It should be so and it will be so!”
And who will forget his lawsuit against Duke University when he got kicked off the team for behavioral issues, which was thrown out by two different judges: :
Having failed to impact on the course, he was thrown off the team in 2008 for breaches of discipline that included breaking clubs, disrespecting a trainer and throwing an apple at a teammate. At one point, five of the other Duke squad wrote a letter asking him not to come back. Giuliani reacted in a classically Trumpian way, suing the college for damaging his professional prospects and alleging he was persecuted in a manner akin to William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
What experience does Andrew Giuliani have to support a mayoral run? None that I can see. Prior to working for the White House, his adult job record seems to consist of a short stint as an intern for an investment bank and working on Trump's 2016 campaign. He also was a a contestant on a reality TV golfing show. That's it.
One more thing. His former boss at the liaison office says he sometimes had spare time at the office so they sent him as their representative to attend some White House meetings on the opioid crisis. As the article opines:
Since the Trump administration is notorious for appointing people with no skill set or experience to crucial positions (witness failed newspaper publisher Jared Kushner charged with solving the Middle East crisis), having a failed golf pro at the table when discussing the most grave public health issue facing the nation totally adds up.
What will Andrew's platform be if he runs for Mayor? Law and Order and the 1980's method of policing. According to the New York Post cited above:
“It’s broken-windows policing, it’s empowering the NYPD to do their job, it’s bringing the private sector in and making them more accountable for creating economic opportunity, it’s reintroducing the free market to some of these low income communities in New York City that have been stuck on the cycle of government dependency for so long,” he said. “The nucleus of all of it is public safety. It’s making sure that New Yorkers feel safe and that tourists feel safe coming here.”
He even admits he's taking everything from his father's old playbook. According to the Post, he says even if he doesn't run,
...he could only support a candidate who followed what he called the “Giuliani playbook” of governing the city.
Shorter version: He doesn't have an original thought in his head. He's just swallowed his father's kool-aid.
Can someone please tell Andrew that his father didn't invent "broken-windows policing"? It was his police commissioner, Bill Bratton's creation. (And what New Yorker today would support putting poor mostly minority people in jail for "quality of life" crimes like New York did back then? Would New Yorkers today really approve of jailing the guys who jumped on your car at traffic lights with their squeegees to clean your windshield? I doubt it.)
Another thing: Rudy is now 80. Judging from his unhinged TV appearances over the last few years, his mental faculties seem to be in decline. If Andrew runs and wins, will Rudy make it through a four year term? If not, where will Andrew get his cue cards and cliff notes?
Like I said, funniest article of the day. Run, Andrew Run - it will be a slam dunk for your Democratic opponent.
P.S. Does anyone know who came up with the line that Andrew Giuliani and Eric Trump look like they shared the same milkman? I read it somewhere tonight but there was no attribution.
