Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized with pneumonia and remains in “critical but stable condition,” his spokesman said in a statement Monday.
Giuliani, 81, initially was placed on a ventilator “to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition,” his spokesman, Ted Goodman, said in the statement. As of late Monday morning, Goodman said, the former mayor and longtime ally of President Donald Trump had been taken off the ventilator and “is now breathing on his own.”
“Mayor Giuliani is the ultimate fighter — as he has demonstrated throughout his life — and he is winning this battle,” Goodman said in the statement. He did not provide details on when Giuliani went to the hospital or identify where he was admitted.
Goodman attributed the severity of Giuliani’s condition to the mayor having been near the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Mayor Giuliani ran toward the towers to help those in need, which later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease,” Goodman said. “This condition adds complications to any respiratory illness and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body.”
Giuliani was elected mayor in 1993 and served two terms. Over the past decade, he forged close ties with Trump, including as a leading voice in Trump’s effort to discredit the results of the 2020 presidential election. Giuliani faced state-level charges in Georgia in connection with that effort, but the case foundered amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
In November, Trump issued a preemptive pardon of Giuliani and other allies for any potential federal criminal charges. Giuliani and several others had been included as unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators in the federal election-interference case that special counsel Jack Smith tried to bring against Trump before Trump was reelected in 2024.
Trump, in a Truth Social post Sunday, praised Giuliani as “the Best Mayor in the History of New York City.”
“What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!” the president wrote.
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