(The Epoch Times)—Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is out of the intensive care unit, but will stay back in the hospital for recovery, his spokesperson said on May 6.
Giuliani was first reported to be admitted to the hospital on May 3. At the time, Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s spokesman, said that Giuliani was in “critical but stable condition.” On May 4, Goodman said that the former mayor was recovering from pneumonia.
During the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Giuliani rushed to help others, an action that later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease. The condition complicates any existing respiratory illness, and Giuliani required mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen supply, Goodman said.
According to Goodman’s latest update, the mayor’s condition has now stabilized.
“Mayor Giuliani—the man who took down the Mafia, saved New York City, and ran toward the towers on September 11th—is the same fighter he’s always been, and he’s winning this fight,” Goodman wrote on social media. “The power of prayer is working. The mayor feels it. We feel it. Please keep them coming for America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani.”
President Donald Trump commented on Truth Social following Giuliani’s hospitalization.
“Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition,” Trump wrote.
Trump said Giuliani was “right about everything” and was “treated so badly” by Democrats and “the Radical Left.”
Giuliani previously worked for Trump as a personal lawyer and helped with legal cases after the 2020 presidential election.
Born in 1944, Giuliani’s career spans senior federal law enforcement roles and executive leadership. He was the 108th mayor of New York City.
Giuliani is widely known for his work on crime in New York. According to his online profile, there was a significant reduction in crime during his tenure, with murders falling by about 66 percent, along with steep reductions in shootings and other violent crimes.
Giuliani was the Time Person of the Year 2001 for his actions following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
As a key advisor, Giuliani supported Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
According to Republican poll watchers, there were irregularities in the 2020 vote counting, following which Giuliani “gathered hundreds of affidavits from Republican poll watchers and others, primarily asserting that they were unable to adequately observe the handling and counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania and other jurisdictions.”
On Nov. 9, 2020, Trump publicly designated Giuliani to lead the post-election legal strategy.
Last year, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
At the time, Trump called Giuliani a “great American Patriot.”
