Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani protested Wednesday that “I’m not an alcoholic” when asked about allegations that he hit the bottle hard — even while providing legal advice to former President Donald Trump.
“I am not a drunkard. I never – not even close,” Giuliani told The Post in response to a New York Times report that federal prosecutors were investigating his drinking habits as part of their case against Trump, 77, over his bid to stay in power following the 2020 election defeat. cheers to Joe Biden.
Special counsel Jack Smith reportedly questioned witnesses about Giuliani’s drinking while he was advising Trump to try to prevent Biden from being confirmed as the winner, and whether that affected the former president’s defense that he relied on the lawyer’s advice while arguing that the big voter. fraud robbed him of a second term.
But Giuliani, 79, argued that he was not a drunkard and was angry with former City Council President Andrew Stein, who claimed to the Times that the former mayor had a drinking problem.
Rudy Giuliani insisted Wednesday that “I’m not an alcoholic” when asked about allegations that he has hit the bottle, even while providing legal advice to former President Donald Trump.AP
“Andrew Stein said I have a drinking problem? Andrew Stein is a big liar!,” said the 2008 Republican presidential candidate.
“By the way, Andrew Stein is not a smart guy,” Giuliani added.
“What has Andrew Stein accomplished?”
Asked why people in Trump’s orbit and New York political circles would say he has a drinking problem, Giuliani replied: “I have a lot of friends who are enemies.”
“I am not a drunkard. I never — not even close,” Giuliani told The Post in response to a New York Times report that federal prosecutors were investigating his drinking habits as part of their case against Trump. Corbis via Getty Images
“I must be the most successful alcoholic ever given what I’ve accomplished,” he added, rattling off his resume as mayor and former federal prosecutor.
“I should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. It is a complete and utter lie.”
Giuliani even refused to describe himself as a social drinker, arguing that it would only lend credence to the claim.
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The former mayor’s alcohol consumption has been a source of debate since the 2020 election and came up during the House Select Committee’s investigation into the January 6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol.
“The mayor must be drunk, but I don’t know how drunk he was when he was talking to the president, for example,” Trump campaign strategist Jason Miller testified, referring to Giuliani’s state on election night, when he urged Trump to publicly declare victory despite the race was too close to call and the results went Democratic.
Giuliani disputed that he was drunk on election night, claiming he only drank “Diet Coke.”
Meanwhile, Giuliani filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Biden in a New Hampshire court, accusing the commander-in-chief of defamation during the second and final presidential debate of 2020.
“I’m suing Joe Biden. Twice during the presidential debate he called me a Russian pawn,” the former mayor said.
A review of the debate transcript revealed that Biden attacked Giuliani during a discussion about The Post’s bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s foreign business interests.
“His friend Rudy Giuliani, he’s being used as a Russian pawn,” Biden said of Trump at the time.
“He was given information coming from Russia, that’s not true.”
Giuliani is also one of 19 co-defendants, along with Trump, in a Georgia election fraud case that accuses them of being a “huge racketeering enterprise” with the goal of subverting the Peach State’s 2020 vote.
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