Giuliani uses debunked election claim to defend law license
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani defended his law license on Monday by continuing to insist on the false claim that mail-in ballots were used to steal the 2020 election.
In an interview on Monday, podcaster Steve Bannon noted Giuliani was facing the loss of his law license in New York and Washington, D.C. after he promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election while working as an attorney for then-President Donald Trump.
"Because Rudy Giuliani was brave enough to step into the breach and say in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we had these mail-in ballots that were unconstitutional," Bannon said. "And for that, Rudy, they're trying to take your law license. And is that a summary of what they're trying to do to torture you?"
"There are two different cases, but this one in the District of Columbia Bar Association," Giuliani confirmed.
Trump's former attorney pointed to debunked claims about mail-in ballots.
"We haven't been able to see them, and many of them look like," Giuliani complained. "There are a lot of problems, but here's the main one. Republican inspectors were not allowed to see a single piece of paper to verify the signature."
"Many of [the ballots] look like they weren't [legitimate] because, at the distance they were at, some of them could see that the ballot was never folded," he added. "To be an absentee ballot, it must come in the mail to be legal, and if it's not folded, then it's a ballot that was produced somewhere else in order to make up for the 750,000 deficit that Biden had."
Politifact debunked claims about fraudulent mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.
And claims of unfolded ballots were also dismissed in Georgia.
"The secretary of state's office says there are legitimate reasons why ballots would not be folded. Some voters cast emergency ballots at polling places if voting machines malfunction. Some military and overseas ballots are damaged and cannot be scanned, so election workers duplicate the ballots before counting them," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The Associated Press found there was not enough fraud to change the outcome of the 2020 election.