Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his conservative radio show canceled after repeatedly questioning the results of the 2020 election.
The station’s billionaire owner, John Catsimatidis, abruptly ended the race over Giuliani’s election claims.
“John had warned him several times about doing that and he finally crossed the line,” Catsimatidis producer Matt Wanning told DailyMail.com.
When asked about the potential legal exposure of Giuliani’s claims, particularly from Dominion Voting Systems, he responded: ‘Oh, yeah. She’s been floating around for a while. He did not know whether the station had specifically received a warning letter from the voting machine company, which reached a $787 million deal with Fox News in 2023.
A Dominion spokesman said he had nothing on the matter. DailyMail.com has contacted Giuliani for comment.
New York billionaire John Catsimitidis suspended former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and canceled his show on WABC, citing his repeated statements alleging voter fraud in 2020.
Giuliani criticized the move in a statement to DailyMail.com, indicating that he was not directly aware of his suspension.
‘I am learning from a leak to the New York Times that John Catsimatidis and WABC are firing me because I refused to comply with their overly broad directive that said, word for word, that I am “prohibited” from participating in conversations related to the presidential election of 2020,” he hummed.
“This directive is a clear violation of free speech and I will have much more to say about this in my livestream at 8:00 pm ET, which you can watch on any of my social media platforms, including X, Facebook or Youtube”. he said, connecting to his own digital program.
The WABC show provides a financial lifeline for Giuliani, who faces a $148 million legal judgment after a jury found he defamed two Georgia election workers. Giuliani is appealing.
He got a percentage of the show’s advertising royalties. Her most recent show included extensive reflections on Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels trial, but not many announcements. One was from a local lawyer. It was unclear how much money Giuliani was able to make hosting the show.
He also hosts his own podcast Common Sense, which he broadcasts live from Florida.
Catsimatidis, owner of the Gristedes supermarket chain, is a player in New York politics and was the second candidate for his party’s mayoral nomination in 2013. But he distances himself from former New Yorker Donald Trump when it comes to his claims and Giuliani’s of massive elections. fraud.
Giuliani faces huge legal fees and multimillion-dollar court judgment
It is the latest blow for Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump who faces a massive court sentence and other legal dangers.
‘He just throws it away. He doesn’t believe in the whole thing,” Manning said.
Catsimatidis told the New York Times He had delivered the warnings to Giuliani by text message.
“We are not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 elections,” he told the newspaper. ‘We warned you once. We warned you twice. And I got a text from him last night, and I got a text from him this morning saying he refuses not to talk about it.
‘So, he left me no choice. I called it off,” she said.
Giuliani was charged along with Trump and other alleged accomplices in Georgia.
On his last radio show, he predicted that the classified documents case against Trump would be dismissed and called for special counsel Jack Smith to be put on trial. “I hope that if Trump wins, there will be an investigation into him,” he said.