Rudy Giuliani was suspended from the New York radio station for alleged election fraud in 2020

A New York radio station canceled former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s radio show on Friday and suspended him from the station because he continued to talk about how the 2020 election was allegedly stolen from former President Donald Trump.

Giuliani, considered a close ally of the former president, was among 18 Trump co-conspirators charged in an alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Giuliani has also previously admitted that some statements he made about Georgia poll worker Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss were “defamatory” after they filed a lawsuit against him.

New York billionaire Republican donor John Catsimatidis, who owns the radio station WABC from which Giuliani was just suspended, said he warned the former mayor multiple times not to talk about the 2020 election.

“We will not talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” Catsimatidis told the New York Times. “We warned him once.” We warned him twice. And I got a text from him last night and I get a text from him this morning saying he refuses not to talk about it. So he gave me no other choice. I suspended him.”

Giuliani has rejected this account of the conversations, saying he had not been previously warned against talking about the previous election.

“It is demonstrably untrue to tell reporters that I was informed of these restrictions in advance,” Giuliani said, according to the Guardian. “How can you believe that when I have been commenting regularly on the 2020 election for three and a half years and have been talking non-stop about the Georgia case since the December ruling? Other WABC anchors and news stations have questioned me. “Obviously I was never informed of such a policy, and even if there was one, it was violated so often that it could not be taken seriously.”

The outlet obtained a copy of the May 9 warning letter to Giuliani, which stated that he was prohibited from discussing “the legitimacy of the election results, allegations of fraud by election officials, and your personal grievances regarding these allegations.”

Catsimatidis said that warning was also emphasized when Giuliani was interrupted by staffers during his show Thursday night as he tried to talk about the 2020 election.

“Look, I like the guy as a person, but you can’t,” Catsimatidis said. “You can’t cross the border. In my opinion, no one really knows (about the 2020 result), but we had a company policy in place. It’s over, life goes on.”