Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebra and different accidents following a automotive crash in New Hampshire, a spokesperson for the previous New York Metropolis mayor stated Sunday.
Giuliani’s car was struck from behind whereas touring on a freeway Saturday night, in keeping with a press release posted on X by Michael Ragusa, Giuliani’s head of safety.
“He sustained injuries but is in good spirits and recovering tremendously,” Ragusa stated, including: “This was not a targeted attack.”
Giuliani, 81, was taken to a close-by trauma heart and was being handled for accidents together with “a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg,” in keeping with Ragusa.
Giuliani was in a rental automotive and “no one knew it was him,” Ragusa additionally stated within the submit on X.
One other Giuliani spokesperson, Ted Goodman, and New Hampshire State Police didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark and extra particulars in regards to the home incident and crash.
The weekend crash follows some rocky years for the onetime Republican presidential candidate, who was dubbed “America’s mayor” in mild of his management in New York after the Sept. 11 assaults in 2001.
Giuliani later grew to become President Donald Trump’s private lawyer for a time and a vocal proponent of Trump’s allegations of fraud within the 2020 election, gained by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump and his backers misplaced dozens of lawsuits claiming fraud, and quite a few recounts, opinions and audits of the election outcomes turned up no indicators of great wrongdoing or error.
Two former Georgia elections employees later gained a $148 million defamation judgment in opposition to Giuliani. As they sought to gather the judgment, the previous federal prosecutor was present in contempt of court docket and confronted a trial this winter over the possession of a few of his property. He finally struck a deal that permit him hold his properties and numerous belongings, together with prized World Sequence rings, in trade for unspecified compensation and a promise to cease talking unwell of the ex-election employees. ____
Related Press author Jennifer Peltz in New York Metropolis contributed to this report.
