Rudy Giuliani Pleads for Money After Filing for Bankruptcy

Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and ex-President Donald Trump's former lawyer, asked people on social media on Monday to pay for a monthly subscription to his podcast.

Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on December 21, just days after a jury ordered him to pay $148 million for defaming two former Georgia election workers.

Giuliani, who heads the Common Sense podcast and its affiliated America's Mayor livestream, kicked off the new year on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday by asking people to subscribe to America's Mayor Confidential for $10 a month.

"Do yourself and me a big favor and join our premier program America's Mayor Confidential so we become a close knit team for 2024. Go to @RudyWGiuliani on X and subscribe for $10 per month so we can be an army by mid-next year," the post read. "Only for those who accept the responsibility to re-establish our constitutional rights and pass on to future generations an even greater America than we were given."

The X account that Giuliani linked to is suspended.

Newsweek reached out to Giuliani via his Common Sense website for comment.

Giuliani created his podcast in January 2020. In his inaugural episode, he argued against Trump's first impeachment for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, which he was acquitted of by the Senate. "Look at these charges. Neither one of the [sic] is a crime," Giuliani said of the articles of impeachment.

In his most recent episode, Giuliani criticized Maine Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' decision to take Trump off the primary ballot in the 2024 election. "You tell me how this happens, if we're not becoming fascists?" the former mayor said.

Giuliani was found liable by a federal judge in August for defaming Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, for falsely claiming that the women were secretly adding ballots for Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election.

In the fallout of Trump's 2020 loss to Biden, he and Giuliani, who was Trump's personal lawyer at the time, repeatedly made baseless claims that the election was stolen via widespread voter fraud.

Giuliani has also been indicted, along with Trump and 17 other co-defendants, in Fulton County, Georgia, for allegedly conspiring to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results. Giuliani and Trump have both pleaded not guilty in the case.

When filing for bankruptcy, the former mayor listed nearly $153 million in existing or potential debts, which included money he owes in legal fees and millions of dollars in potential judgment in lawsuits against him.

In May 2023, Noelle Dunphy, a former associate of Giuliani, launched a $10 million lawsuit against him and his law firm alleging "abuses of power, wide-ranging sexual assault and harassment, wage theft and other misconduct" involving "alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist and antisemitic remarks."

Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, said at the time that the former mayor "unequivocally denies the allegations raised by Ms. Dunphy."

In September 2023, Biden's son, Hunter Biden, filed a lawsuit in California against Giuliani and Robert Costello, a longtime friend of Giuliani, alleging that Giuliani disseminated private information from his laptop. The suit alleges that Giuliani and Costello spent years "hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from" Biden's devices.

Goodman denied Hunter Biden's allegations at the time, saying, "Hunter Biden has previously refused to admit ownership of the laptop. I'm not surprised he's now falsely claiming his laptop hard drive was manipulated by Mayor Giuliani, considering the sordid material and potential evidence of crimes on that thing."