As former President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and a onetime Republican presidential candidate himself, Rudy Giuliani was a familiar face on the conservative Fox News network.
Giuliani repeatedly appeared on the network to defend Trump against his Ukraine scandal, as well as to parrot lies about then-candidate Joe Biden's and his son's business dealings in Ukraine.
But Giuliani's full-throated endorsement of the lie that the 2020 election was "stolen" from Trump by Democrats engaging in widespread election fraud has become even more deranged, resulting in billion dollar defamation suits from the elections companies he smeared.
According to a report from Politico Playbook, Giuliani and his son, Andrew, have been banned from Fox News—which is facing its own election-related defamation suits—for nearly three months.
To add insult to injury, Rudy Giuliani found out about the ban from Fox host Pete Hegseth just before he was to appear in a Fox News commemoration of the September 11 attacks. Giuliani's 2001 response to the devastating act of terror thrust him to national adoration, prompting the nickname "America's Mayor."
The ban also comes as Andrew Giuliani makes a longshot bid for governor of New York.
A source told Playbook:
"Rudy is really hurt because he did a big favor for [Fox and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch]. He was instrumental in getting Fox on Time Warner so it could be watched in New York City."
Social media reactions likely didn't do much to soothe Giuliani's pain.
I'm sorry, but this is hilarious. When not even FOX News will have you on board. https://twitter.com/playbookdc/status/1441348497345761281\u00a0\u2026— Edward Champion (@Edward Champion) 1632500541
This right wing cancel culture is out of controlhttps://twitter.com/playbookdc/status/1441348497345761281\u00a0\u2026— Trevor Smith (@Trevor Smith) 1632483572
* curbed enthusiasm theme *https://twitter.com/playbookdc/status/1441348497345761281\u00a0\u2026— ve \ud83c\udf3f\u2728 (she/her) (@ve \ud83c\udf3f\u2728 (she/her)) 1632502897
Imagine how revered Rudy would still be if he just sat at home doing sudoku for the past 15 yearshttps://twitter.com/playbookdc/status/1441348497345761281\u00a0\u2026— Justin Pierce (@Justin Pierce) 1632500732
Rudy Giuliani lost his law license, got banned from FOX News, became a pariah, may face prison time and didn\u2019t even get paid.\n\nI think it\u2019s goddamn hilarious.— Dan \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Dan \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1632495982
Some were amazed at how unhinged it takes to get a notable conservative banned from Fox News.
When Fox News bans you, you know you've really gone off the deep end.https://twitter.com/playbookdc/status/1441348497345761281\u00a0\u2026— James Surowiecki (@James Surowiecki) 1632502455
Fox News banned Rudy Giuliani. That's like a chimpanzee being banned from the zoo.— Don Lewis (@Don Lewis) 1632495477
How bad do you have to be when you're an ass kisser of bunkerboi and still get banned from Fox News?https://twitter.com/playbookdc/status/1441348497345761281\u00a0\u2026— Papa Z (@Papa Z) 1632501166
Rudy Giuliani is so full of crap even Fox News banned him.— Scott Dworkin (@Scott Dworkin) 1632492735
Giuliani will likely still have a home on other far-right networks.
