NEW YORK — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in critical but stable condition in a Florida hospital, his spokesperson said Sunday.
It is unclear when Giuliani, 81, was taken to the hospital.
“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak,” Ted Goodman said, before asking “that you join us in prayer” for the former mayor.
President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, called Giuliani a “True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”
Giuliani told viewers Friday on his X show “America’s Mayor Live” that his “voice is a little under the weather, so I won’t be able to speak as loudly as I usually do.” He’s seen coughing a few times on the streamed program.
The most recent episode of “The Rudy Giuliani Show,” streamed on LindellTV, is from Wednesday. Giuliani missed several episodes in April but worked Monday through Friday as recently as March.
Former New York Mayor Eric Adams, who left office last year, wished Giuliani “strength, good health, and a full recovery,” his spokesperson Todd Shapiro said in a statement on his behalf, adding the “moment rises above politics.”
“From his years as a federal prosecutor to leading New York City through its darkest day on 9/11, he stood with this city when it needed him most,” the statement said. “Public service at that level demands sacrifice, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to the people you serve.”
Giuliani, Trump’s former personal attorney whose leadership of New York in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks earned him the nickname “America’s mayor,” has faced a slew of legal and financial troubles since the 2020 election.
He has pleaded not guilty to state criminal charges against him related to the election subversion scheme in Arizona. Prosecutors dropped a similiar case against Giuliani and others in Georgia last year.
The two former Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, also obtained a $148 million defamation judgment against him for false allegations he made about them after the 2020 election.
Still, he has been receiving support from Trump, with the president appointing him to an advisory council inside the Department of Homeland Security last June.
Giuliani was hospitalized in August after he was injured in a car accident in New Hampshire, his head of security and the New Hampshire State Police said. Three people, including Giuliani, were taken to the hospital by ambulance with “non-life threatening injuries,” the police said.
In 2020, the former mayor spent four days in the hospital battling coronavirus.
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