Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has said the Democratic Party is like a "Communist dictatorship" after he was disbarred as an attorney on Tuesday.
Giuliani continued to claim, without evidence, that his disbarment was related to an edited recording of presidential election workers counting votes in Atlanta in 2020. A New York Appellate court handed down the decision, which Giuliani is expected to appeal.
In December, Giuliani declared bankruptcy after a jury awarded $148 million to two Georgia election workers who had won a defamation lawsuit against him. As an attorney for Donald Trump in 2020, Giuliani falsely alleged that Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss committed election fraud while counting ballots in Fulton County.
On Tuesday, following his disbarment, Giuliani wrote on X, formerly Twitter: "I'm not surprised that I've been disbarred by a Bar Ass'n which is a politically and ideologically integral part of the Democrat one party corrupted court system for a long time."
He continued: "The case is based on an activist complaint, replete with false arguments, a hearing officer who was a former judge from the same corrupt Democrat selection process, and a tape with almost 1/4th of the most critical parts erased and covered up by either the Chief NY Bar 'persecutor' and his staff, or the Sec'y of State of Georgia."
Newsweek contacted the New York Bar Association and Georgia's secretary of state for comment by email.
Elsewhere in the X post, Giuliani showed his loyalty to Trump, criticizing two judges who have overseen cases in New York involving the former president.
"Judges, like Merchan and Engoron in NYC are selected by local Democrat bosses," Giuliani wrote. "These judges, just like in a one party Communist dictatorship, are not really elected but selected by the Democrat local bosses and often run unopposed."
Earlier this year, Judge Juan Merchan oversaw the former president's hush-money trial, while Judge Arthur Engoron fined Trump $454 million over fraudulent business practices.
On May 30, Trump was convicted by a New York jury on 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide a sexual encounter with Stormy Daniels, an adult film actor. He is due to be sentenced in September.
Newsweek contacted the offices of Merchan and Engoron for comment by email.
Ted Goodman, Giuliani's spokesperson, told Newsweek that other lawyers should speak out against the former mayor's disbarment.
He said: "Members of the legal community who respect the rule of law in this country should immediately come forward and speak out against this politically and ideologically corrupted decision. We will be appealing this objectively flawed decision in hopes that the appellate process will restore integrity into our system of justice."
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