Rudy Giuliani mentioned Tuesday he skilled “more pain than I ever felt” after a automobile crash final weekend however expects to recuperate absolutely, making his first public remarks on video in regards to the rear-end wreck in New Hampshire.
After a number of days in a hospital, Giuliani returned — sporting what gave the impression to be a steel brace below his swimsuit jacket — to his “America’s Mayor Live” on-line program and his eponymous present on Lindell TV. It’s a web-based media platform launched by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell.
The 81-year-old former New York Metropolis mayor described Saturday’s crash, which occurred shortly after however individually from a roadside encounter with somebody Giuliani mentioned flagged his automobile down to hunt assist.
“God was very, very good to us. He looked after us,” Giuliani mentioned, accompanied by spokesperson Ted Goodman. “We did the right thing, so we can feel good about ourselves, and we can be an example.”
The previous mayor additionally used his reveals to have fun President Donald Trump’s determination to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. It’s “the best medicine,” mentioned Giuliani, a vocal Trump ally who was his private legal professional for a time.
Giuliani mentioned he was in New Hampshire on Saturday to see a minor league baseball sport. After leaving, he was driving alongside Interstate 93 in a rented Ford Bronco, with spokesperson Ted Goodman behind the wheel, when the automobile was struck from behind by a Honda HR-V pushed by a 19-year-old lady, New Hampshire State Police mentioned in an announcement. Each autos hit the freeway median and have been “heavily damaged,” the assertion mentioned.
Goodman and the 19-year-old suffered “non-life-threatening injuries” and have been taken to hospitals for remedy, the company mentioned.
Giuliani was taken by ambulance to a close-by trauma middle for remedy of a fractured thoracic vertebra, a number of lacerations and contusions, and accidents to his left arm and decrease leg, in response to an announcement posted on X by Michael Ragusa, Giuliani’s head of safety. The thoracic vertebrae are a part of the backbone.
State police mentioned the reason for the crash was below investigation. No expenses have been filed.
Earlier than the accident, Giuliani and Goodman mentioned on Tuesday’s reveals, a lady flagged them down shortly earlier than 9 p.m. Saturday. She advised them she was being abused or attacked by a person in her firm and requested to get of their automobile, they mentioned.
“She was clearly distressed, but she was under control” and didn’t seem injured, Giuliani mentioned.
Goodman mentioned the girl was with somebody who was holding up a flashlight that obscured that particular person’s face.
Uneasy in regards to the state of affairs however wanting to assist, Giuliani and Goodman advised the girl to remain put whereas they pulled up a bit additional alongside the highway and known as police. Whereas they have been on the telephone with authorities, the girl approached their automobile and requested for his or her telephone, saying she may name her sister to gather her, Giuliani mentioned. They refused and supplied her a experience as an alternative, however she went away, the 2 mentioned.
Giuliani mentioned that after police and an ambulance arrived, a state trooper advised him that the girl had badly overwhelmed the person.
A message in search of remark and additional particulars was despatched to state police.
Goodman ultimately obtained again on the highway, and the collision occurred a couple of minutes later, he and Giuliani mentioned.
Investigators mentioned the reported home violence and the crash have been believed to be unrelated.
“We got hit in the back, I would say, the hardest I’ve ever been hit in my whole life,” mentioned the ex-mayor, who mentioned each he and Goodman have been sporting seatbelts. He mentioned he may barely transfer afterward as a result of “I felt more pain than I ever felt.”
The previous mayor mentioned that he had been instructed to not bend, carry or twist in the meanwhile however that docs have been “very confident” he’d heal.
The onetime Republican presidential candidate 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 a vocal proponent of Trump’s allegations of fraud within the 2020 election, which was received 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 serious wrongdoing or error.
Two former Georgia elections staff later received a $148 million defamation judgment towards Giuliani.
