Giuliani: I Turned Down Two Cabinet-Level Offers (Because I Didn’t Get The Secretary Of State Gig)

Politico reports:

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who had lobbied publicly to be Donald Trump’s secretary of state, said Tuesday that the president-elect offered him two “Cabinet-level positions” in government that he turned down because he “didn’t want to do it.”

He declined to name the positions but acknowledged to CNN’s Chris Cuomo that those two “very high” positions did not include the top job at State. Giuliani had been an early contender for that post, and was unusually public about his attempt to court it, but the transition team said last week that he was no longer in the running.

Giuliani also maintained that he chose to take himself out of the running for secretary of state and dismissed the suggestion that Trump has been inadequately loyal to him. Giuliani was a top surrogate for Trump throughout his improbable campaign, one of the few to go on TV the weekend after the “Access Hollywood” tape dropped in October.