“Those two speeches were the two most substantive, I would say historic, speeches that any presidential candidate has made in a very long time,” he said of Trump’s speeches both Tuesday and Monday, when Trump laid out his vision for fighting terrorism.

Then Giuliani went big. After clips of Trump’s Tuesday speech played, he said:

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“I think this is the best speech that any Republican, at the least, has ever given. Democrats never talk about law and order, so they leave out one part of it. There are two parts to fixing the problems in the American cities that Democrats have controlled for 50 to 100 years. In the case of that city, they haven’t had a Republican mayor since 1906 in Milwaukee. Now, New York City had a Republican mayor, me. We went down in homicide by 75 percent, other crime 60 percent, unemployment cut in half.”

So ... maybe Giuliani just misspoke again, as he did Monday when he said there had not been terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the eight years before Barack Obama’s presidency.

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But if he didn’t — and he meant exactly what he said — that would place Trump’s speech ahead of:

Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that he only meant Republican presidential candidates — as he specified in his previous quote about Trump’s two speeches Monday and Tuesday. That would place Trump ahead of:

(Obviously, this is an incomplete list.)