The problem deepened Friday when former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was suspended from WABC radio for trying to use his own words. show To discuss the lie that the 2020 presidential election was lost to Donald Trump due to election fraud.
John Catsimatidis, New York billionaire, Republican donor, and owner of WABC. told the New York Times: “We’re not going to talk about the November 2020 election errors. We warned him once. We warned him twice. And we got a text from him last night and this morning… I also received a text from him that he refuses to talk about it.
“So he left me no choice. I suspended him.”
A spokesperson for Mr. Giuliani did not respond to a request for comment.
Giuliani, 79, served as New York’s mayor from 1993 to 2001 and emerged as a national figure after leading the city through the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
Mr. Giuliani has been close to Mr. Trump for a long time and is said to have helped him overcome his personal crisis after the failure of the presidential election, and when Mr. Trump ran for the Republican nomination in 2016 and won the White House. , emerged as a staunch supporter.
Mr. Giuliani did not have the honor of becoming secretary of state, but he worked on Mr. Trump’s behalf, including in an effort to extract political dirt from Ukraine, which led to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment.
In 2020, Mr. Giuliani’s efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s loss to Mr. Trump in the polls only led to a series of defeats in the courts and increased national humiliation.
Mr. Giuliani has denied wrongdoing, but his efforts on behalf of Mr. Trump led to legal disbarment proceedings. Criminal charges were filed in two battleground states: Georgia and Arizona. And it lost a $148 million defamation lawsuit against two Georgia poll workers who it claimed were involved in election fraud.
Giuliani filed for bankruptcy in New York last December. The filing revealed up to $500 million in debt.
“There is no accountant,” a legal document filed on Giuliani’s behalf earlier this week said.[ed] We are interested in working with him to meet the requirements of the bankruptcy case.”
His spokesman Ted Goodman said at the time: “While it is true that Washington’s resident political class uses all of its power and influence to bully and intimidate those who defend Americans who seek to stand up and resist the accepted narrative, Mayor Giuliani is and will be a good financial representative.”
Tuesday’s filing notes that the former mayor, who made millions of dollars in consulting work after leaving office in 2001, “currently receives Social Security benefits and broadcasts a radio show and podcast.” .
“These are his only sources of income,” it says.
Kasimatidis told the Times it’s at the end His WABC show on ThursdayMr. Giuliani tried to talk about the 2020 election but was interrupted by a station staff member.
“Look, I like this man as a person, but I can’t do that,” Catsimatidis told the newspaper. “You can’t cross the line. In my opinion, no one really knows. [about the 2020 result] But we created a company policy.
“It’s over, life goes on.”
