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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that real estate mogul Donald Trump should be given the Republican presidential nomination even if he doesn't quite make it to the required 1,237 delegates before the convention in July. | AP Photo Giuliani: Trump should get nomination if he is close on delegates

Rudy Giuliani said he thinks Trump can get to the required 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination on the first ballot. If the billionaire doesn’t get there but is close, the Republican National Committee should change the rules to give it to him, Giuliani said Tuesday.

“If he is within 20 or 30 within the nomination, they have to give it to him,” the former New York City mayor and Trump supporter told CNN's "New Day."

“That's not the rule,” CNN host Chris Cuomo responded.

“I know, but they change other rules, so why not change that rule?” Giuliani asked. ”Just because it is a rule, doesn't mean it's fair.”

Giuliani, who has said he will vote for Trump in Tuesday's primary, said his support could be characterized as an endorsement, though he maintained that he was in no way involved with the campaign.

But that did not keep him from doling out advice and hinting at the Republican front-runner's looming attacks on Hillary Clinton should the two face off in November.

“Go back to Arkansas, right? Little Rock, I mean going back to Arkansas when Bill was governor, when Bill was governor and she was at the Rose Law Firm. I mean, is there a consistent pattern here," Giuliani said in a Fox News appearance.

Giuliani then referred to the Whitewater scandal of the 1990s, the 2012 Benghazi attack and attempting to link Bill Clinton's paid appearance to UBS to allegations that Hillary Clinton lobbied the federal government for lenience.

"The Lincoln bedroom, the files that all of a sudden were discovered under a bed," Giuliani said, alluding to the Clinton's fundraising efforts and the documents related to the Rose Law Firm and Whitewater that discovered by a White House staffer in 1996.

Giuliani called it a "consistent pattern going back to what was going on in the Rose Law Firm and the people who were getting deals and the people who were getting things that goes right through, you know, the money she was making for her speeches."

He then referred to Bill Clinton's paid speaking engagements with UBS, suggesting that donations from the Swiss banking giant to the Clinton Foundation helped play a role in smoothing relations between it and the Internal Revenue Service .

"I was a prosecutor. I’d be all over that. You’d be in a grand jury if I was assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York," Giuliani said.

The Wall Street Journal found no evidence of Hillary Clinton's involvement in the case with the bank's donations to the Clinton Foundation or with the former president's speaking gigs.

Giuliani speaking on CNN, also echoed Trump’s frustration about the way the delegate selection process was playing out. Trump has struggled to get supporters who pledge to vote for him after the first while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has cleaned up in subsequent delegate battles.

“If you get three points for a basket and I get two, that's an unfair rule,” Giuliani said. “That's what this is all about. All that backroom, I mean, I think you have all the Sanders votes and all the Trump votes, because they're disgusted with the backroom politics that's been going on.”

