Rudy Giuliani says loyalty to Donald Trump will help him in heaven

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that his loyalty to former President Donald Trump will help him “in heaven.”

Giuliani, who also previously served as a lawyer for Trump, is currently facing a penalty of $148 million after he was found liable in court for defaming two Georgia election workers, the mother-daughter pair Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, as the former mayor became a significant proponent of Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud that made him lose to Joe Biden, Giuliani spread unfounded conspiracy theories that the pair had committed election fraud while counting ballots in Fulton County, Georgia.

Freeman and Moss said in the lawsuit that the claims about them, which were amplified considerably by Giuliani, resulted in them receiving a torrent of harassment and threats. Following the verdict against him, the former mayor told reporters that he did not “regret a damn thing” about the comments he made, and decried the “absurdity” of the penalty amount, which resulted in him filing for bankruptcy last year.

In a Sunday WABC radio broadcast, Giuliani said he would be disbarred for what he stated was “confidential stuff” after he was found liable for defaming Freeman and Moss.

“The Bar Association is going to crucify me no matter what. I will be disbarred in New York. I will be disbarred in Washington. It will have nothing to do with anything I did wrong,” he said. “And I consider that something that will help me in heaven for sticking to my principles and not being a weakling, like all these weaklings who are afraid to represent Trump.”

Newsweek has reached out to Giuliani via an email online form and Trump’s spokesperson via email for comment.

However, Giuliani’s comments come after he said last month he is owed $2 million in legal fees from the former president’s campaign.

Speaking at a New York bankruptcy court hearing in early February, Giuliani said Trump’s campaign team never paid him for work he did after the 2020 election.

Giuliani said during the meeting with his creditors at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York that his claim about the money he is owed is against the Trump campaign and the Republican National Campaign, not against Trump himself, Bloomberg Law reported.

More recently, he took aim at Judge Scott McAfee who on Friday ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can continue prosecuting Trump and other defendants, including Giuliani, in the Georgia election interference case.

In August, Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted by a Georgia grand jury and face criminal racketeering charges for allegedly attempting to overturn the state’s electoral results in the 2020 election won by Biden.

McAfee ruled that the district attorney could continue on the case as long as Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor she was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with, was removed. Wade ultimately resigned shortly after the judge’s ruling.

Giuliani was originally charged on 13 counts including violating Georgia’s anti-organized crime RICO act, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree and conspiracy to file false documents. He, like Trump, has pled not guilty to all charges and strongly denies any wrongdoing.

However, last week McAfee quashed six counts in the indictment, including three against Giuliani and Trump.

Speaking on Newsmax, Giuliani said of McAfee’s decision regarding Willis, “This is absurd. This judge is a disgrace. He’s an absolute disgrace. This woman [Willis] committed perjury right in front of him…What kind of a sissy boy is he? The woman made a fool out of him, treated him like garbage…This judge has so little regard for the law.”