Giuliani Used Trump's Plane For Weekend Visit To Israel

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Here's a little flashback from 2001:

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has frequently encouraged New Yorkers to hop on commercial airplanes as a way of returning to normalcy, asked to borrow an airplane belonging to Donald Trump for his visit to Israel last weekend. Mr. Giuliani, who had been invited to ride along with Mayor-elect Michael R. Bloomberg and Gov. George E. Pataki on Mr. Bloomberg's private jet, chose to take Mr. Trump's plane instead.

''The reason for doing it that way was merely to be able to get back in time,'' Mr. Giuliani said yesterday, adding that it would have taken an extra 12 hours to fly commercial, something he said he had ''absolutely no trepidation about doing.'' He added that he planned to fly on commercial planes frequently once he left office in January. The mayor took two Continental Airlines flights to Arizona for the World Series in October, but those were charter flights.

Mr. Giuliani also said yesterday that the city's Conflict of Interest Board had signed off on the use of the Trump jet, and that the trip was paid for by a number of private donors. Under the City Charter, city officials are barred from accepting gifts from people who do business with the city or who give gifts specifically because the recipient holds a government post. Mr. Trump has received various tax breaks from the city.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/11/nyregion/giuliani-used-trump-s-plane-for-weekend-visit-to-israel.html

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1. I bet the taxpayers were paying for the fuel, tho.

or in a best case scenario, the RNC.

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2. Also from that period: "'Giuliani May Leave Mansion To Escape Marital Tensions"

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is considering moving out of Gracie Mansion to escape the tension in his failed marriage, a City Hall official said yesterday.

The official said it was not clear where Mr. Giuliani would live if he were to leave the 200-year-old Federal-style mansion, the mayor's official residence on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But in recent weeks, the official said, Mr. Giuliani has been staying overnight at the East 57th Street apartment of Howard Koeppel, a political supporter and Queens car dealer, as well as at the homes of other friends.

The mayor's sleepovers at Mr. Koeppel's apartment were first reported in yesterday's Daily News, which had 17 reporters and interns working on the story, including a team that staked out Mr. Koeppel's high-rise morning and night for the last two weeks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/nyregion/giuliani-may-leave-mansion-to-escape-marital-tensions.html

He was having "sleepovers".

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3. Any way you slice it....

we're paying for it.

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4. This is a flashback to 2001

To give a little context and history.