Rudy Giuliani suspended from radio station WABC, talk show canceled

WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani was suspended from WABC radio on Friday for discussing false claims about the 2020 presidential election on his daily talk show, which was also canceled.

John Catsimatidis, a billionaire Republican businessman, told the New York Times, which first reported the firing, that Giuliani received several warnings before making the decision to fire him from the radio network.

“We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I got a text from him last night and I’m getting a text from him this morning saying he refuses not to talk about it,” Castimatidis told the New York Times.

“He gave me no choice. I suspended him,” Castimatidis said.

Giluliani was the former campaign lawyer for former President Donald Trump. Giuliani, one of the former president’s key allies, has repeatedly made false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. A federal jury in December ordered him to pay $148 million in damages to two Georgia election officials for defaming them. Giuliani filed for bankruptcy shortly after the decision and is currently trying to appeal the ruling.

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Giuliani, also a former mayor of New York City, is also currently facing charges in Arizona and Georgia for his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

“John Catsimatidis and (WABC Radio) fired me because I refused to comply with their overly broad policy,” Giuliani said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, opposed his firing, calling it “a clear violation of free speech.”

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