Rudy Giuliani is disbarred in New York for spreading Donald Trump's 2020 election lies
Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in New York state for spreaing Donald Trump's lies about mass voter fraud in the 2020 election.
WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, the disgraced former mayor of New York who tried to overturn former President Donald Trump's election loss, was disbarred in the state of New York on Tuesday, yet another repercussion for the team that spread lies about mass voter fraud after Joe Biden's 2020 presidential victory.
Giuliani, who faces charges in Georgia and Arizona and is an unindicted co-conspirator in special counsel Jack Smith's federal election interference case against Trump, had no "good faith basis" to believe the lies he spread about the election, according to an order entered Tuesday. Some of the false statements cited by a New York appeals court were comments Giuliani made at a post-election news conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, which took place at the same time some new outlets called the election for Biden.
"These false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client," the appeals court decision read.
Giuliani has arguably faced much wider repercussions for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election than Trump himself. He also faces disbarment in Washington, where the D.C. Bar’s Board of Professional Responsibility recently recommended that he be barred.
In May, WABC radio of New York suspended Giuliani and canceled his show for continuing to make false statements about the 2020 election, which could have opened the station up to legal liability.
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