Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani drives by a demonstration organized by supporters of US President Donald Trump, in front of Trump Tower in New York City. Photo: Reuters/Yuki Iwamura.

Rudy Giuliani — the former Mayor of New York and a leading attorney for former US President Donald Trump — is again facing critical scrutiny after he was recorded making vulgar remarks about Jews and other minorities.

According to documents in the lawsuit against Giuliani made public on Wednesday by his former employee Noelle Dunphy — who accuses the former mayor of having raped and sexually abused her — the comments were made over several months in 2019. Dunphy insists that Giuliani gave her permission to record their conversations, claiming that he even pressed the record button on her cellphone on one occasion.

In one conversation with Dunphy, Giuliani regurgitated a traditional antisemitic trope about the alleged sexual inadequacy of Jewish men. “Jewish men have small c— because they can’t use them after they get married,” Giuliani was recorded as saying, “whereas the Italian men use them all their lives so they get bigger.”

On another occasion, Giuliani complained about the Jewish holiday of Passover, which commemorates the exodus from Egypt of the ancient Israelites. “Jews. They want to go through that freaking Passover all the time,” Giuliani said to Dunphy on April 1, 2019, according to one transcript. “Man, oh, man. Get over the Passover. It was like 3,000 years ago. Okay, the Red Sea parted. Big deal. Not the first time that happened.”

The transcripts also revealed Giuliani’s obsession with homosexuality. In one conversation, he referred to actor Matt Damon as a “f–” while claiming in another that Michael Bloomberg, his successor as Mayor of New York, “goes with men.”

The recordings also showed Giuliani describing Dunphy as his “b—-” and “s—” alongside his wish to “own” her “legally, with a document.” He also told her, “I’d never think about a girl being smart. If you told me a girl was smart, I would often think she’s not attractive.”

Dunphy’s claims add to the legal woes facing Giuliani, who was named as “co-conspirator number one” in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump this week over the attempted insurrection by his supporters on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021. Interviewed about the indictment on the right-wing cable channel Newsmax on Tuesday, Giuliani railed: “You don’t get to violate people’s First Amendment rights, Smith, no matter who the hell you are, no matter how sick you are with Trump derangement syndrome.”