Former NY Mayor Giuliani Served As Consultant for Mexican Anti-Trump Politician

The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a Mexican politician advocating for the most anti-Trump policies with a consulting services, media reported.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who could potentially become the US secretary of state under President-elect Donald Trump, was paid over $4 million for consulting a Mexican politician advocating for the most anti-Trump policies, media reported.

Giuliani is reportedly one of the two candidates Trump is considering for the top diplomat role. The other candidate is ex-governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, who was a vocal critic of the now president-elect during the presidential race.

According to the Washington Post newspaper, after stepping down as the New York mayor, in 2002, Giuliani was paid $4.3 million to consult for the Mexico City’s authorities, then led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is likely to run for Mexican president on an anti-Trump campaign in 2018.

The fact that Giuliani had worked for Lopez Obrador could result in a conflict of interest for state secretary Giuliani, who would be tasked with renegotiating the NAFTA trade deal and making Mexico pay for a border wall with the United States, as proposed by Trump, the paper reported.

During the election campaign, Trump said he would take the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) free trade zone with Mexico and Canada, as well as impose tariffs on imports from China and Mexico. He also pledged to build a wall on the border with Mexico and make the neighboring country pay for it.