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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s troubles deepened Friday when he was fired from WABC radio for trying to use show to discuss the lie that the 2020 presidential election was lost to Donald Trump due to election fraud.
John Katsimatidis, New York billionaire, Republican donor and owner of WABC, told the New York Times: “We will not talk about the fallacies of the elections in November 2020. We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I got a text from him last night, and I got a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it.
“So he left me no choice. I removed it.”
Giuliani later said he was fired.
A spokesman for Giuliani issued a lengthy statement in which the former mayor said: “I am learning from the leak of new York The times I was fired by John Katsimatidis and WABC because I refused to comply with their overbroad directive that said word for word that I was “prohibited from engaging in conversations related to the 2020 presidential election.”
Alleging a “clear violation of free speech,” Giuliani said he would look further into the social media situation Friday night.
But he continued, saying WABC’s move came “at a very suspicious time, just months before the 2024 election and just as John and WABC continue to be pressured by Dominion Voting Systems and the Biden regime’s lawyers.”
Dominion Voting Systems, a manufacturer of voting machines, reached $787.5 million settlement with Fox News for broadcasting lies about election fraud. That too sued Giuliani and Sidney Powell, another attorney who worked on Trump’s attempt to nullify the 2020 election.
Now 79, Giuliani served as mayor of New York from 1993 to 2001, becoming a national figure after leading the city through the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
Long close to Trump, who it is reported helped him overcome a personal crisis after a failed presidential bid, Giuliani emerged as a staunch supporter when Trump ran for the Republican nomination in 2016 and then won the White House.
Giuliani didn’t win the prize of becoming secretary of state, but he worked on Trump’s behalf on issues including the attempt to extract political dirt from Ukraine, which sparked Trump’s first impeachment.
In 2020, Giuliani attempted to overturn Joe Biden’s defeat of Trump in the election, only to suffer a series of courtroom defeats and growing public embarrassment.
Giuliani denies wrongdoing, but his pro-Trump efforts have led to impeachment proceedings; criminal charges in two changing states, Georgia and Arizona; and a defeat in a defamation suit that left him owing $148 million to two Georgia election officials he claimed were involved in election fraud.
Giuliani submitted for bankruptcy in New York last December. Notes shown debts up to 500 million dollars.
Earlier this week, a legal filing on behalf of Giuliani said the accountants “do not appear[ed] 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 the permanent political class in Washington is using all of its power and influence to bully and scare people into not protecting Americans who are willing to stand up and oppose accepted narrative, Mayor Giuliani will be properly represented when it comes to his accounting and finances.”
Tuesday’s filing said the former mayor, who made millions from consulting work after leaving office in 2001, “currently receives Social Security and hosts a radio show and podcast.”
“These are his only sources of income,” it said.
Katsimatidis told the Times that at the end of his WABC show on ThursdayGiuliani tried to talk about the 2020 election, but was cut off by station staff.
“Look, I like this guy as a person, but you can’t do that,” Katsimatidis told the newspaper. “You can’t cross the line. My point is that no one really knows [about the 2020 result] but we had made a company policy. It’s over, life goes on.”
In his statement, Giuliani accused Catsimatidis of “telling reporters that I was informed in advance of these restrictions, which is patently false.
“How can you believe this after I have been a regular commentator on the 2020 election for three and a half years and have been talking about the Georgia case off and on since the verdict in December. Other WABC anchors and anchors questioned me on these topics.
“Apparently I was never informed of such a policy, and even if there was one, it has been violated so often that it cannot be taken seriously.”
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