Report: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani To Meet With Ted Cruz

Lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani comments on a lawsuit filed against video game giant Activision by former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega outside Los Angeles Superior court in Los Angeles Thurs... Lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani comments on a lawsuit filed against video game giant Activision by former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega outside Los Angeles Superior court in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Noriega claims his likeness was used without permission in "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" and he was portrayed as a murderer and enemy of the state. Activision attorneys said allowing the case to proceed would make it difficult to include historical figures in games, books and other creative works. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William F. Fahey did not signal during an hour long hearing Thursday how he might rule. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) MORE LESS
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani plans to meet with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Politico reported late Wednesday night.

Giuliani, who left the mayor’s office in 2001, has been giving “frank” advice to Cruz’s rival, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. He’s described Trump as “a close personal friend.”

Giuliani has not endorsed any candidate, but as Politico noted, this is a shift in behavior for the outspoken Republican.

The Cruz campaign did not return Politico’s requests for comments on the meeting.

Cruz doubled down on his attack of Trump’s “New York values” during a campaign stop in the Bronx on Thursday, saying they are “the values of liberal Democratic politicians” to whom Trump gave donations.

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  1. A noun, a verb, and a sellout to that smarmy little bastard from Carpetbagger, Texas.

  2. Now there’s a gathering of some male pulchritude!

  3. It’s weird. I had a dream that I woke up and there was Rudy Giuliani’s name in a headline on TPM. But then I thought, that’s just absurd, and like in most similar dream situations, I woke up for real.

  4. is the mayor teaching sCruz which New York values to embrace and which ones to denigrate?

  5. Sir Georg Solti, longtime Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, looked somewhat similar to Mayor Giuliani. The players’ nickname for Solti was “The Screaming Skull.”

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