Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) Radio show Officials say his appearance on WABC Radio has been canceled and he has been suspended from the station for his comments about the 2020 election. report From the New York Times.
“I’m not going to talk about the errors in the November 2020 election,” WABC radio owner and host John Catsimatidis said, according to the paper. “We warned him once. We warned him twice. And we got a text from him last night and we got a text from him again this morning saying he’s refusing to talk about it. .”
“So,” Catsimatidis added, “he left me no choice. I suspended him.”
in his own thread Post Giuliani said on the social platform X Friday that Catsimatidis and WABC “fired me because I refused to comply with overly broad directives that prohibit conversations related to the 2020 presidential election.” Ta.
“This directive is a clear violation of free speech,” Giuliani said in his thread. “WABC’s decision comes at a very questionable time, just months before the 2024 election, and as John (@JCats2013) and WABC continue to face pressure from Dominion Voting Systems and Biden administration lawyers. It’s the same.
Mr. Giuliani has been a regular at spreading false claims about fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and is facing financial repercussions for doing so. He filed for bankruptcy late last year, shortly after a jury ordered him to pay $148 million to former Georgia election officials for inaccurately claiming that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
Lawyers for the former New York City mayor said in a filing earlier this week that they are having trouble finding someone to help with the accounting work in the bankruptcy case. He asked “a number of accounting firms” for help, but “no one seemed interested in taking on the assignment.”
The Hill reached out to WABC Radio.
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