Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani reportedly went berserk as he launched into an extended and furious rant after a bar discipline committee in Washington, D.C. concluded that he violated professional rules in his efforts to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election results — a preliminary finding that could result in the suspension or loss of his law license.
The three-member disciplinary committee ruled that Giuliani’s handling of litigation in Pennsylvania crossed ethical lines, Politico reports.
“Mr. Giuliani has testified on several occasions that he believes there was a conspiracy,” said D.C. Bar counsel Phil Fox, who investigated and argued the case for Giuliani’s punishment. “There was a conspiracy, and he was the head of it.”
Fox said the panel should disbar Giuliani for his conduct.
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“I think the harm that was done is unprecedented,” Fox said, according to Politico. “The only sanction that’s appropriate for this kind of misconduct is disbarment.”
The ruling sent Giuliani into a raging defense of his conduct, even as his lawyer tried to stop him from speaking.
“It is a typical, unethical, cheap attack,” Giuliani said while insisting that there’s a legitimate case that the 2020 election was stolen.
“I’ll put my work on democracy … up against Mr. Fox and anyone else,” the former NY mayor shouted. “For that man to engage in that kind of a personal attack when there was no record of that, and for you to allow him to do that, I consider an outrage.”
“I don’t know what has happened to the defense of lawyers who take on unpopular causes,” Giuliani said, the report from Politico states.
