Rudy Giuliani’s daughter comes out against her father and Trump in brutal essay

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Caroline Rose Giuliani, the daughter of former LifeLock spokesperson and Trump personal Rudy Giuliani, called for Americans to vote for the Biden-Harris Democratic ticket in a scathing rebuke of the “toxic” Republican administration. 

“My father is Rudy Giuliani,” Giuliani wrote in an essay published Thursday in Vanity Fair. “We are multiverses apart, politically and otherwise. I’ve spent a lifetime forging an identity in the arts separate from my last name, so publicly declaring myself as a ‘Giuliani’ feels counterintuitive. But I’ve come to realize that none of us can afford to be silent right now.”

Giuliani, a 31-year-old Los Angeles-based LGBTQ+ filmmaker, “shunned her famous last name” while at Harvard. Instead, she used the last name of her other famous parent: “Law & Order” actor Donna Hannover. In her essay, Giuliani maintained that “being the daughter of a polarizing mayor who became the president’s personal bulldog” is “a difficult confession — something I usually save for at least the second date.” Continue reading.