Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was booted off of his radio program for talking about alleged election fraud in the 2020 election on air.
Giuliani’s show was removed from WABC, one of his last major sources of income, on the order of Republican billionaire John Catsimatidis, who owns the station. Catsimatidis told the New York Times that he had warned Giuliani twice already and was left with no choice.
“We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” he said. “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,” Catsimatidis continued.
In a statement to the outlet, Giuliani decried the policy as “a clear violation of free speech.” He denied Catsimatidis’s claim that he was warned multiple times not to talk about the 2020 election.
“Obviously I was never informed on such a policy, and even if there was one, it was violated so often that it couldn’t be taken seriously,” he wrote.
The former mayor also said that he was unaware that he was fired until contacted by the New York Times.
Catsimatidis said the suspension was due to Giuliani’s remarks on a Thursday show when he complained about the legal cases against him and the suspension of his law license. WABC cut him off midsentence.
Catsimatidis said the decision was tough for him but that Giuliani had forced his hand.
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“Look, I like the guy as a person, but you can’t do that,” he said. “You can’t cross the line.”
The Greece-born billionaire implied that he didn’t necessarily disagree with Giuliani’s assertions about the election but that the company had made the policy and must stick by it.
