The 10 Lies that Got Rudy Giuliani’s Law License Suspended

Rudy Giuliani repeated ten blatant, made-up lies that were “an immediate threat to the public,” leading a New York court to suspend him as a lawyer on June 24.

He continued to lie even after the Attorney Grievance Committee asked for his suspension for his lying. As a result, Giuliani is expected to be disbarred completely when the case concludes.

It is a humiliating disgrace for a one-time presidential advisor.

Giuliani was making up brazen lies about the 2020 election multiple times on multiple platforms, reaching countless members of the public from November 2020 to April 2021.

“False statements intended to foment a loss of confidence in our elections and the resulting loss of confidence in government generally damage the proper functioning of a free society,” wrote the New York Appellate Court.

1. Giuliani made false and misleading statements that 10,000, 32,000, or 250,000 “illegal aliens” had voted in Arizona during the 2020 presidential election. Giuliani told these lies to perpetuate his overall narrative that the election had been stolen.

On November 30, 2020, Giuliani appeared before a group of Arizona legislators at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Phoenix. He admitted during that session that no statewide check on undocumented noncitizens had been performed. In other words, there was no data available from which to draw any conclusion about undocumented noncitizens.

Undeterred by the lack of any empirical evidence, he broadcast the lies in a December 17, 2020 episode of Chat with the Mayor and in another episode of the War Room podcast; during the March 9th, 11th, and April 27, 2021 broadcasts of his Chat with the Mayor radio show and on April 21, 2021, during an appearance on the War Room podcast. Giuliani made these misstatements most recently after the state bar brought the motion to suspend him.

“These numerical claims are so wildly divergent and irreconcilable that they all cannot be true at the same time. Some of the wild divergences were even stated by Giuliani in the very same sentence,” the court said.

In January 2021, Giuliani even admitted that he did not have the “best sources” to justify the numbers he was stating as fact. Nonetheless, Giuliani has failed to produce any sources to support any of the figures he has presented to the public with authority. He has not identified, let alone produced the “newspaper and records” he claimed were the bases for his assertions when he made them.

Giuliani argues that he relied on Arizona State Senator Kelly  Townsend, who Giuliani claims collected information on noncitizen voters. There is no evidence about the information Senator Townsend is claimed to have collected.

2. He repeatedly claimed that in Pennsylvania 600,000 or 700,000 more absentee ballots came in during the election than were sent out before the This was simply untrue.

The facts are that 3.08  million absentee ballots were mailed out before the general election, which more than accounted for the over 2.5 million mail-in ballots that were actually tallied.

He told the lie on the November 8, 2020 radio program, Uncovering the Truth with Rudy Giuliani & Dr. Maria Ryan, during a November 25, 2020 meeting of the Republican State Senate Committee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during a December 2, 2020 meeting of the Michigan House Oversight Committee, during his December 17, 2020 radio broadcast Chat with the Mayor. He repeated it during an episode of Steve Bannon’s the War Room: Pandemic podcast on December 24, 2020.

3. Giuliani lied to a federal court on November 17, 2020, arguing that there was “widespread, nationwide voter fraud,” and that Pennsylvania’s election results should be thrown out. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v Boockvar.

“Fraud was the crown of his personal argument before the court that day,” the court said. Giuliani repeatedly told the court that his client was pursuing a fraud claim, when indisputably it was not.

As 3,700 people dialed in to hear the arguments, the opposing lawyer pointed out, and Giuliani’s own co-counsel agreed, that there were no claims or evidence of fraud.

“Significant time and effort were expended on respondent’s false misrepresentations to the court. The confusion Giuliani created by falsely insisting that there was a fraud/canvassing claim before the court persisted beyond that court appearance.”

4. Giuliani repeatedly made the phony claim that 8,021 or 30,000 dead people “voted” in Philadelphia. Additionally, he claimed that the late heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier continued to vote years after he was dead and stated on November 7, 2020, “he is still voting here.”

The public records submitted on this motion unequivocally show that Giuliani’s statement is false. He “failed to provide a scintilla of evidence” for the varying and wildly inconsistent numbers of dead people voting.

Giuliani repeated the lie first at a November 7, 2020 press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping and again during the November 25, 2020 meeting of the Republican State Senate Committee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In addition, despite the unequivocal evidence that Frazier was not on the Pennsylvania voting rolls, Giuliani spread this fictionalized account in the March 4, March 11, and March 14, 2021 episodes of his broadcast radio show Chat with the Mayor, all of which aired after the Attorney Grievance Committee filed the motion to suspend him.

5. Giuliani made numerous false statements about Dominion Voting Systems Inc.’s voting machines manipulating the vote tallies in Georgia in favor of President Biden. These lies were all knowingly made with the object of casting doubt on the accuracy of the vote. Without providing this Court with any documentary support, Giuliani said he relied on “hundreds of pages of affidavits  and declarations in his possession that document gross “

Georgia, however, had completed a hand count of all ballots cast in the presidential audit, confirming the results of the election with a zero percent risk limit. Dominion has sued Giuliani for defamation over his claims about their voting machines

Giuliani told the lies on December 3, 2020, when appearing before the Georgia Legislature’s Senate Judiciary Committee, during a December 6, 2020 episode of the radio show Uncovering the Truth, during a December 22, 2020 episode of his radio show Chat with the Mayor, in a December 27, 2020 episode of Uncovering the Truth, and then again during a January 5, 2021 episode of the War Room podcast.

6. Giuliani falsely claimed that 65,000 or 66,000 or 165,000 underage voters illegally voted in the Georgia 2020 election.

The Georgia Office of the Secretary of  State investigated this claim and found that there were zero underage voters in the 2020 election.

Giuliani claimed he relied on “expert” affidavits, including one by Bryan Geels, who never submitted an affidavit.

Giuliani repeated the lies about underage voters in Georgia on his radio show, Chat with the Mayor on January 5, January 7, and January 22, 2021. He then repeated this statement on the April 27th episode of his radio show, after the motion to suspend him was brought.

7. Giuliani told lawmakers and the public at large that more than 2,500 Georgia felons voted. The Georgia Secretary of State also investigated this claim and found the statements to be false.

Again he claimed he relied on the unproduced affidavit of Geels for this information as well. Giuliani broadcast the lie on January 5, 2021, during a War Room podcast.

8. Revising his earlier lie, Giuliani said that 800 or 6,000 or 10,515 dead people voted in Georgia during the 2020 presidential election. The Georgia Secretary of State refuted this claim. Giuliani’s claim of thousands of dead voters is false. He never said where this information came from.

Giuliani repeated the lie on December 22, 2020, during a War Room podcast, on January 3, 2021, during an episode of Uncovering the Truth, on January 5, 2021, during a War Room podcast, on the April 7, 2021, episode of his radio show Chat with the Mayor — despite having no evidence to refute the truth.

9. Giuliani claimed that Georgia election officials surreptitiously retrieved illegal ballots from suitcases hidden under a table and then tabulated them. Giuliani contended that surveillance video depicted Georgia election officials engaging in the illegal counting of mail-in ballots.

The videos do not show secreting and counting of illegal ballots. The Georgia Secretary of State investigated, and viewed the videos with law enforcement and fact-checkers, who all concluded that there was no improper activity.

Giuliani could not have reasonably concluded that illegal votes were being counted.

Giuliani showed the snippets of video and made false statements about them on the podcast Rudy Giuliani’s Common Sense on December 4, 2020, the radio show Uncovering the Truth on December 6, 2020, and then again on the same radio show on December 27, 2020, and January 3, 2021; on December 3, 2020, at a hearing before the Georgia State Legislature; and yet again on December 8, 2020, and December 10, 2020, on respondent’s Chat with the Mayor radio program, and on December 19, 2020, and January 5, 2021, as a guest on the War Room podcast.

10. Giuliani said he would no longer be making any statements about the election under the authority of an attorney. But it was a lie.

“Notwithstanding respondent’s claim that he has exercised self-restraint by not publicly commenting on the election, numerous instances demonstrate the opposite. Therefore, we cannot rely on respondent’s representations that he will exercise restraint while these proceedings are pending.”

“The risk that Giuliani will continue to engage in future misconduct while this disciplinary proceeding is pending is further borne out by his past, persistent and pervasive dissemination of these false statements in the media,” the court said

“This country is being torn apart by continued attacks on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and of our current president, Joseph R. Biden. Where, as here, the false statements are being made by Giuliani, acting with the authority of being an attorney, and using his large megaphone, the harm is magnified.”

“One only has to look at the ongoing present public discord over the 2020 election, which erupted into violence, insurrection, and death on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, to understand the extent of the damage that can be done when the public is misled by false information about the elections,” the court said.