Rudy Giuliani yanked off the air for ‘stolen election’ rant on WABC radio show
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was suspended without pay from his WABC radio show for ranting about the “stolen” 2020 election — deepening the legally embattled ex-lawyer’s financial woes, The Post has learned.
In a further fall from grace, the bankrupt, twice-indicted ex-attorney for Donald Trump was yanked from the air by billionaire supermarket mogul and radio station owner John Catsimatidis.
“He did it to himself,” Catsimatidis told The Post on Friday.
“I thought he was a great mayor for the city of New York so I always try to support him. But you can’t cross the line.”
Giuliani, 79, went on a “stolen election” tirade during the final three minutes of “The Rudy Giuliani Show” Thursday, violating a company-wide policy “not to state, suggest or imply that the election results are not valid,” according to Catsimatidis, who runs Red Apple Media.
Catsimatidis said he had sent Giuliani a letter warning him that he’s “prohibited from engaging in conversations relating to the 2020 Presidential Election” — prompting the disgraced mayor to allegedly fire off a defiant text to the billionaire.
“Please understand I am disregarding every order given in this letter,” he purportedly texted after his show.
Catsimatidis said he fired back Friday afternoon, “I’ve got to take you off the network effective immediately.”
“Does that mean you’re firing me?” Giuliani asked — to which Catsimatidis had not yet responded as of Friday evening.
Giuliani told The Post he had no idea the company policy existed, claiming he’s been talking about the 2020 election on the air for the past three years.
“They don’t want me to say it’s stolen, they don’t want me to talk about the election at all. It’s so broad,” he said.
“I am being told here to promise that I will engage in no conversations relating to the 2020 presidential election. Who the hell could promise that except a liar?” he said.
“It is a blow to me. Absolutely,” he said of losing the job. “This is a major screwing!”
Giuliani said he was making $15,000 a month from working at WABC, adding about the CEO of grocery chains Gristedes and D’Agostino Supermarkets: “He was paying me what I would regard as peanuts.”
He said that he still has shows on X and on Newsmax that generate income.
His on-air rant Thursday was edited out, said Catsimatidis, who said Giuliani had asked for more radio time slots in recent days.
“He wanted more hours on the air. We didn’t volunteer to give it to him,” Catsimatidis said. “He was pushing it very hard the last week or so.”
Hailed as “America’s Mayor” in the 9/11-era, Giuliani now faces a mountain of legal bills to fight criminal cases in Arizona and Georgia, where he was charged with trying to overturn the 2020 election.
He also needs to pay attorneys to defend him against multiple civil cases, including by the voting machine firms Dominion and Smartmatic and a former associate who accused him of sexual assault.
Giuliani filed for Bankruptcy in New York in December, claiming he owed up to $500 million after a devastating $148 million civil court ruling against him.
In that case, the facts-challenged ex-attorney was ordered to pay two Georgia election workers he defamed after the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani estimated at the time that he owed $153 million.
In January, he promised a New York bankruptcy court that he’d limit his spending to a sky-high $43,000 per month — but quickly failed to stick to the budget.
He reportedly blew through nearly $120,000 that same month, buying “60 transactions on Amazon, multiple entertainment subscriptions, various Apple services and products, Uber rides, and payment of some of his business partner’s personal credit card bill,” the New York Times reported last week.
Working as a lawyer himself is off the table, too. Guiliani, who is also a former federal prosecutor, had his law license suspended in New York City in 2021.
He faces disbarment for “his utter disregard for facts,” which “denigrate the legal profession,” a panel said last year.
