Rudy Giuliani attends Yankees fan event as Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer and former New York Mayor signs autographs and poses with supporters… despite ‘boycotting’ the team over their support for BLM

Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani attended a New York Yankees fan event on Sunday despite claiming to have boycotted the team for years over their support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Giuliani, who served as mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, revealed last summer that he boycotted the Yankees over their stance on BLM – the controversial political and social movement that aims to combat racism.

After also distancing himself from the LA Dodgers over their “Pride Night” invitation to a drag group that satirizes nuns, which he declared a “war on Christianity,” the 79-year-old said, “I did that with the Yankees when they supported Black Lives Matter.

“Sorry, I love my country more than baseball.”

Even though Giuliani left Yankees Stadium because of the BLM movement, he still found time to pose for photos and sign autographs at a Yankees fan event in New Jersey on Sunday.

After being invited to “Pinstripe Pride 2024,” which also featured former players Goose Gossage, Wade Boggs and Bernie Williams, he mingled with Yankees greats and supporters alike at the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford.

Giuliani, a longtime ally of former U.S. President Trump, grew up in Brooklyn and became a Yankees fan through his father, despite living closer to the Dodgers’ former home stadium.

“During my eight years as mayor, the Yankees won four World Championships,” the American politician and attorney, who appeared at the Yankees event courtesy of sports memorabilia giant HallofFameSignings.com, said Sunday. ‘Their revival occurred at the same time that New York was changing from a place considered impossible to govern to the leading example of urban renaissance.

“The Yankees, as well as the Mets and all New York sports teams, have helped tremendously in the city’s recovery after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. I will always have a special place in my heart for these guys and this team. ‘

In December, Giuliani was declared bankrupt after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation lawsuit over lies he spread about two former Georgia election workers who turned their lives upside down with racist threats and intimidation.

The punitive damages verdict followed emotional testimony from Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who tearfully described becoming the targets of a false conspiracy theory pushed by Giuliani and other Republicans as they tried to defeat then-President Trump to stay in power after he lost. the 2020 elections.

There was an audible gasp in the courtroom as the jury foreman read out the $75 million in damages awarded to the women. Moss and Freeman were each awarded another approximately $36 million in other damages.

A group of people and companies who say they owe money to Giuliani gathered virtually Friday for the first court hearing since he declared bankruptcy.

During a two-hour Zoom hearing, a lawyer for Giuliani told a U.S. bankruptcy judge that the former New York mayor does not have the money to pay the $148 million he owes election workers for spreading a conspiracy about their role in the 2020 election. Others with claims against Giuliani will also have to wait.

“There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” said the lawyer, Gary Fischoff, noting that Giuliani made his living as a radio and podcast host while dealing with a wide range of “financial issues.”