The 81-year-old former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized in "critical but stable condition", his spokesperson said on Sunday, without specifying the nature of the former New York mayor's health problems. Donald Trump hailed a "true warrior", taking this opportunity to attack the Democrats.
Published on: 04/05/2026 - 04:20 Modified on: 04/05/2026 - 09:07
“Rudy Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he fights today with that same level of determination.” His spokesperson, Ted Goodman, announced Sunday May 3 on X that the former mayor of New York was hospitalized in “critical but stable condition.” He did not specify the nature of the 81-year-old former lawyer's health problems.
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He also did not mention the name of the establishment where the man nicknamed "America's Mayor" was cared for, nor the date of his hospitalization. The daily The New York Times reported that he was hospitalized in Florida.
The best mayor of New York according to Trump
This strong-willed former prosecutor, who made himself known by dealing harsh blows to the New York mafia and praised for his management of the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, failed in the Republican primary for the presidential nomination in 2008.
But Donald Trump's former personal lawyer fell from grace in 2023 when he was ordered to pay $148 million in damages for defamation against the backdrop of accusations of electoral cheating during the 2020 presidential election. Rudy Giuliani played the role of spearhead during the campaign to invalidate the results of the presidential election which had been won by Democrat Joe Biden.
He had since been disbarred in New York and Washington.
Last November, he was one of 77 people involved in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election to be pardoned by Donald Trump.
The US president hailed Rudy Giuliani as a "true warrior" and the best mayor in the history of New York according to him.
“What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the crazy radical left, ALL Democrats – AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”, added Donald Trump about his former chief of staff at the White House. "They cheated in the election, fabricated hundreds of stories, did everything possible to destroy our nation and now look at Rudy. So sad!"
With AFP
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