Former New York mayor and former Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that American politics should “get rid” of the Democratic Party because it’s “too corrupt” at the top.
In an interview with journalist Dan Ball on Wednesday for his show Real America, which airs on far-right, pro-Trump channel One America News (OAN), Giuliani praised the Republican Party as “a patriotic conservative movement” and blasted the Democratic Party as a self-serving organization.
“Political parties do their best job when they serve the country, not when the country is serving them,” Giuliani told Ball, as shown in a clip shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, by OAN.
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“Right now the Republican Party is a means to an objective, if you want to get there through conservative party, independent party… gosh, if you want to be a Democrat and vote Republican,” he continued.
“I think you got to get rid of the Democrat Party, I think it’s become too corrupt at the top,” the former Trump lawyer added. “They probably should get rid of it if they’re not hypocrites. Think of all the statues they take down because of slavery and whatever. Nobody had more to do with slavery than the Democrat Party, they were the architects of it.”
Before the Civil War, the Democratic Party generally supported or tolerated slavery, but by the mid-20th century, it embraced progressive reforms and was supportive of the civil rights of minorities.
Calling the Democratic Party the “party of slavery,” Giuliani and Ball mocked “made-up liberal facts” and the Democrats’ “fact-checkers.”
“Me and I like the truth, screw facts, we like the truth,” Ball said.
In August, Giuliani was charged in Georgia alongside Trump and 17 other co-defendants in a sweeping racketeering indictment related to their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.
Both Trump and Giuliani were charged with 13 counts including, in the case of the former New York mayor, one count of violation of the Georgia RICO Act; three counts of solicitation of violation of oath by public officer; three counts of false statements and writing; two counts of conspiracy to commit false statements and writings; two counts of conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree; one count of conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer; and one count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents.
Prosecutors in Fulton County said that Giuliani made false statements to state election officials in order to overturn the election’s results, repeatedly pressing them on voting fraud claims he was told were false, and contributed to the harassment of two election workers.
The two workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, are reportedly seeking between $15.5 million and $43 million from Giuliani at a defamation trial set to begin in December in Washington, D.C.
Giuliani, whose loyalty to Trump has been unfaltering through the years, called the indictment “an affront to American Democracy and does permanent, irrevocable harm to our justice system” and “a travesty.” He surrendered to authorities at Fulton County jail in late August and his bond was set at $150,000.
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