Rudy Giuliani suspended by New York radio station over 2020 election lies
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Source: The Guardian
Fri 10 May 2024 19.48 EDT
The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani’s troubles deepened on Friday when he was suspended by WABC radio, for trying to use his show to discuss the lie that the 2020 presidential election was lost by Donald Trump because of electoral fraud. John Catsimatidis, a New York billionaire, Republican donor and owner of WABC, told the New York Times: “We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it. “So he left me no option. I suspended him.”
Giuliani said he had been fired. In a lengthy statement, the former mayor said: “I’m learning from a leak to the New York Times that I’m being fired by John Catsimatidis and WABC because I refused to comply with their overly broad directive stating, word-for-word, that I’m ‘prohibited from engaging in conversations relating to the 2020 presidential election’.”
A copy of a letter from Catsimatidis to Giuliani, dated 9 May and obtained by the Guardian, said Giuliani was “prohibited from engaging in conversations relating to the 2020 presidential election on your programs broadcast on WABC … and otherwise in your capacity as an agent of the station. “These specific topics include, but are not limited to, the legitimacy of the election results, allegations of fraud effectuated by election workers, and your personal lawsuits relating to those allegations.” Claiming “a clear violation of free speech”, Giuliani said he would address the situation further on social media on Friday night.
But he went on to say the move by WABC 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 elections machines, reached a $787.5m settlement with Fox News over its broadcast of election fraud lies. It also sued Giuliani and Sidney Powell, another lawyer who worked on Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's troubles deepened on Friday when he was suspended by WABC radio, for trying to use his show to discuss the lie that the 2020 presidential election was lost by Donald Trump because of electoral fraud. John Catsimatidis, a New York billionaire, Republican donor and owner of WABC, told the New York Times: "We're not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it. "So he left me no option. I suspended him."
Giuliani later said he had been fired. A spokesperson for Giuliani issued a lengthy statement, in which the former mayor said: "I'm learning from a leak to the New York Times that I'm being fired by John Catsimatidis and WABC because I refused to comply with their overly broad directive stating, word-for-word, that I'm 'prohibited from engaging in conversations relating to the 2020 presidential election'."
Claiming "a clear violation of free speech", Giuliani said he would address the situation further on social media on Friday night. But he went on to say the move by WABC 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 elections machines, reached a $787.5m settlement with Fox News over its broadcast of election fraud lies. It also sued Giuliani and Sidney Powell, another lawyer who worked on Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's troubles deepened on Friday when he was suspended by WABC radio, for trying to use his show to discuss the lie that the 2020 presidential election was lost by Donald Trump because of electoral fraud.
John Catsimatidis, a New York billionaire, Republican donor and owner of WABC, told the New York Times: "We're not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it. "So he left me no option. I suspended him."
A spokesperson for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Now 79, Giuliani was mayor of New York from 1993 to 2001, emerging as a national figure after leading the city through the 9/11 terror attacks. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 but flopped.
Long close to Trump, who reportedly helped him through a personal crisis after the failed presidential run, Giuliani emerged as a steadfast supporter when Trump ran for the Republican nomination in 2016 and then won the White House.
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I *know* there is a lot of snickering going on. I remember when WABC fired "the original" toxic talk host - "Get off my phone" Bob Grant - (after he was there for years after WOR had fired him)... and he eventually slinked away and returned to WOR, where once again. Bam! Out on the streets. Then I think he returned briefly back on WABC again to sub for all the loons he spawned and mentored before he finally bought the farm.
and he and Alan Colmes (who was also on WABC) got teamed up for "Hannity and Colmes", with Colmes as the "liberal" and Douche Hannity as the loon. That was also the period when Curtis Sliwa (before he and his wife Lisa went solo) had the "Curtis and Kuby" show too, with Ron Kuby as the "liberal" counterpoint to the snake Sliwa.
Ironically, I caught Limpballs' very first show because he took over Lynn Samuels' slot and she whined about it.
To get anything resembling "liberal" there, although I had to strain to pick it up, I would listen to WLIB (could pick it up better late nights). I think they even ran Air America programming.
And yeah that "other" lineup - Savage Weiner ( ), Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, and on and on. 
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