Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — once hailed as “America’s mayor” after guiding New York through the Sept. 11 attacks — told Newsmax that Fox News has “completely banned” him since the 2020 election fight, including cutting him out of its 9/11 anniversary coverage despite his historic role in the city’s recovery.
“Well, I was completely banned from the network,” Giuliani told Newsmax’s “Chris Salcedo Show” on Friday. “They don’t even interview me on Sept. 11 anymore. For 10 to 12 straight years, I was on Fox live, ‘Fox and Friends’ to talk about Sept. 11, which I imagine would be a time you’d want to talk to me, right?”
He said producers who tried to book him were ordered to cancel.
“Several of their people thought they could put me on and then had to call me and tell me, ‘No, you’re not allowed on.’ Somewhere around the election dispute, I was just banned,” Giuliani said.
“They wouldn’t have been on in New York if it wasn’t for my making a deal with them as mayor to give them the New York City station for a large amount of money. Roger Ailes was one of my closest friends and my client. I was very close to Rupert Murdoch. I stayed at his house.”
Giuliani said the rift only widened after the Jan. 6, 2021, incidents at the Capitol.
“I think after Jan. 6, they panicked. Even some of their talent panicked. Some of the testimony they gave, I can tell you, wasn’t true,” he said.
“I don’t know why Murdoch turned on Trump. They were very close. I was sort of an intermediary for them for the longest time.”
He recalled facing legal backlash for backing the network.
“Turner Broadcasting was freezing them out. I actually got sued by Turner Broadcasting for putting them on the air,” Giuliani said.
Now, Giuliani said, Fox acts as if he never existed.
“They don’t even mention me on Sept. 11. It’s as if Sept. 11 happened without me,” he said.
He added he is not the only one shut out.
“I have to assure you, I’m not the only one banned from Fox,” Giuliani said. “There’s a rather large group of us.”
Giuliani’s comments come after political commentator Megyn Kelly ripped Fox News for celebrating slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk, saying the network sidelined him for years over his support of Tucker Carlson.
On a recent episode of her podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the former Fox News anchor and star accused the network of rewriting history.
“It’s really bothering me how Fox News is talking about Charlie, like he was theirs. He wasn’t. It’s a lie. Just stop,” Kelly said.
Kelly, who left Fox in 2017, has become one of its sharpest critics, especially after Carlson’s ouster in April 2023. She said that while some Fox hosts supported Kirk privately, network executives intentionally kept him off the air.
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