Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has lashed out at President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, likening the FBI raid of his father’s apartment to Stalinist show trials.
In an op-ed shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner, Giuliani, who is strongly considering running for governor of New York, said: “When federal agents raided my father’s home at dawn yesterday morning, the Biden Justice Department sent a clear message to America: If it can happen to the former mayor who led New York City through 9/11, it can happen to you, too.”
Several FBI agents raided his father’s Manhattan apartment and office Wednesday, issuing a warrant and seizing multiple electronic devices.
ANDREW GIULIANI: DAWN RAID ON MY FATHER’S HOME IS BIDEN’S POLITICAL INTIMIDATION AT WORK
The son of the former mayor compared the raid on his father’s apartment to the Moscow Trials, held for prominent enemies of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who were often purged.
“Denied any kind of due process, most of the defendants were charged with crimes against the Soviet government. Several were sentenced to death,” Giuliani wrote.
“When Joe Biden was first sworn in, Trump supporters were terrified about the ramifications,” Giuliani charged. “If Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and George Papadopoulos could be arrested during President Donald Trump’s White House, what would happen when Democrats had free rein to prosecute any opponent they wanted?”
“Now we know the answer,” he continued. “They will target the opposition’s highest-profile allies over past issues that have been thoroughly investigated and cleared. President Donald Trump may have been acquitted over his dealings in Ukraine, but his allies are still being stalked and harassed over theirs. The outcome is worse than many of us feared, and parallels Stalin’s prosecution of political rivals.”
Federal authorities have zeroed in on Rudy Giuliani, focusing on whether he illegally lobbied the previous administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs while searching for damaging information on Trump’s political rivals, including Biden, who was at that point the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Earlier this week, the younger Giuliani said: “I am disturbed by what happened here today, by the continued politicization of the Justice Department.”
Trump called Wednesday’s raid on the former mayor’s apartment “so unfair,” also alleging that a “double standard” is at play within the Justice Department.
Before becoming New York City mayor, Giuliani was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the same office that is investigating him.
The former mayor told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday: “I could have destroyed the evidence years ago,” referring to the seized hard drives and electronics, adding that he didn’t because the evidence is “exculpatory” and proves that Trump and “all of us are innocent.”
Trump was accused of asking Ukraine’s president to launch an investigation into the Bidens in return for the restoration of military aid, which prompted the former president’s first impeachment.
Both the former mayor and his son have raised concerns that the federal agents who raided his home allegedly did not express interest in three hard drives Rudy Giuliani claims belonged to Biden’s son Hunter Biden, who has been scrutinized by Republicans and conservative media for sitting on the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma from 2014 to 2019.
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“If this were about the rule of law, the federal agents who raided my father’s apartment would have seized the laptop we had belonging to Hunter Biden. But that distracts from the imagery,” Giuliani concluded in his op-ed.
