Rudy Giuliani appears to still have a show on Newsmax2, Newsmax’s streaming channel — or at least it’s still on the schedule. Newsmax had been reportedly threatening to drop the show in the wake of a (New York radio station dropping his show there because he couldn’t stop spreading discredited lies about the 2020 election. (Of course, that Newsmax show may be Giuliani’s only source of steady income.) Still, things appear to remain shaky between Giuliani and Newsmax as he muddles through a legal morass of his own making, though it appears to continue to be operating a legal defense fund for him.
When Giuliani was disbarred in New York on July 2 for his dishonesty in promoting election lies, Newsmax served up both a wire article and an article by Jim Thomas that was surprisingly balanced in noting not only Giuliani’s rants but also statements from the appellate panel pointing out that “The seriousness of [Giuliani’s] misconduct cannot be overstated.” On the other hand, Newsmax allowed Giuliani to play victim about his disbarment in a Newsmax appearance the same day:
Former New York Mayor and federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax on Tuesday that Americans should be alarmed after he was disbarred earlier in the day by the New York Bar Association.
In a 31-page order, the bar association banned Giuliani from practicing law in the state, which he had been allowed to do since 1969, citing repeated false claims he made about the 2020 election while he represented former President Donald Trump and his campaign.
“I don’t think the American people realize the incredible fascism of the Democrat Party and what the bar association did to me,” Giuliani told “Prime News” and guest host Lidia Curanaj. “… The Democratic Party is the party of slavery and the party right now of oppression in New York, where a one-party system — it might as well be the Communist Party in New York for the crookedness that they impose on New York.”
Giuliani said he wasn’t surprised by the move.
“When I got a call today and my lawyer told me that they disbarred me, I said, ‘I’m surprised they took so long,'” Giuliani said. “I didn’t expect any other result from a Democrat-controlled bar association, ideologically and politically. Look, they are completely complicit in the crooked court system we have in New York.
“The hearing officer in this case comes from that crooked court system. … The judge who presided over this case probably had decided the case before it started. She was hostile. She was nasty. She looked at her cellphone more than she looked at me. She contradicted half the things I said.
“The whole case was started by a political activist into a Democrat, one-party controlled system, which is what we just saw Trump get hurt with, with [Judge Juan] Merchan and [Judge Arthur] Engoron.”
Giuliani got one other recent Newsmax TV hit, following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, in which he claimed the incident proved that “this is the kind of leader we want.”
Newsmax also published articles regarding Giuliani’s bankruptcy shenanigans:
- Bankruptcy Judge Mulls Trustee for Giuliani’s Finances
- Judge: Giuliani Bankruptcy Case Likely Dead
- Judge Tosses Giuliani Bankruptcy Case, Says He Flouted Process With Lack of Transparency
There was one bit of positive news: A June 14 article by Theodore Bunker noted that “President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will drop his civil lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani’s former lawyer Robert Costello that claims the two manipulated data from his old laptop.”