Giuliani Allies Have Created a Legal Defense Fund to Aid Legal Woes

• Rudy Giuliani’s allies have created a “Freedom Fund” to support the former Trump attorney.
• Bernard Kerik said the fund would help Giuliani “defend himself from frivolous lawsuits”.
• On Thursday, Giuliani was suspended from practicing law in New York state pending further review.
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Rudy Giuliani’s allies announced Saturday that they had set up a defense fund to back former President Donald Trump’s ex-attorney against a series of lawsuits and investigations.

In a statement, former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik revealed the establishment of the Rudy Giuliani Freedom Fund, a legal defense that would aid Giuliani with several ongoing investigations.

“To help @RudyGiuliani defend themselves against frivolous lawsuits, an armed Justice Department and the New York Bar Association, we created the Rudy Giuliani Freedom Fund,” he wrote on Twitter. “This is the official defense fund for this American patriot.”

The fund’s website claims that Giuliani “has been repeatedly censored for attempting to expose the truth about the Biden family’s corruption prior to the 2020 presidential election” and accuses a “deep state” of “defeating” Trump’s allies.

“The swamp is outrageous by setting a bull’s eye on any Trump loyalist who had the courage to challenge the Deep State,” the website said. “That puts Rudy at the top of their list.”

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Giuliani was put to the test because of his longstanding efforts to scrutinize the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to current President Joe Biden.

On Thursday, the New York Supreme Court Appeals Department suspended Giuliani’s bar license pending further review.

In its ruling, the five-person court wrote that Giuliani had “proven to have given false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the general public” regarding Trump’s unsuccessful re-election campaign.

“These false statements were made to inappropriately underpin the respondent’s account that widespread election fraud stole his client’s victory in the 2020 US presidential election,” the decision said.

Giuliani was also sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems, and in April the FBI ransacked his Manhattan home and office in connection with an investigation allegedly investigating his business in Ukraine.

During an interview on Newsmax last week, Giuliani criticized the suspension of his lawyer license.

“They are looking for a crime,” said Giuliani. “Do you know how un-American this is? We are investigating allegations of crime,” he said. “We don’t search a man’s life to invent or find crimes.”

Trump criticized the move on Thursday, calling New York “out of control”.

“Can you believe New York’s Rudy Giuliani, a great American patriot, is trying to revoke his lawyer license for fighting a fraudulent election?” he said in a statement.

He added, “The greatest mayor in New York City history, the Eliot Ness of his generation, one of the greatest crime fighters our country has ever known, and that’s what the radical left is doing to him.”