Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-mayor of New York City and a former adviser to Donald Trump, is in critical but stable condition at a hospital, his spokesman said Sunday.
Spokesman Ted Goodman didn’t say what sent the 81-year-old to the hospital or how long he’s been there.
Giuliani was dubbed “America’s mayor” in light of his leadership in New York after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
He later became Trump’s personal attorney for a time and a vocal proponent of Trump’s allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, won by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits claiming fraud, and numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error.
I’m going to remember him as being the driving factor behind “stop and frisk” which saw an increasingly hostile and racially insensitive police force in America’s biggest city.
Before he was a melting alcoholic, a incompetent lackey for an incompetent wannabe mafioso president, or held the whitewashed and unearned “America’s Mayor” title after 9/11, he was the guy whose cops shot a man 41 times after he ran away from them. I suspect Amado Diallo was running from the cops because just a few years prior, the same police force had sexually assaulted an immigrant - a black man - that was handcuffed in their precinct by
doing terrible things
sodomizing him with a broken broom handle in his anus and mouth to the extent that they broke several of his teeth and caused severe damage to his colon and bladder.
Abner Louima required several corrective surgeries and two months of hospitalization.
So, yeah, that’s the Giuliani I remember. Oh, and when he dressed in drag to entertain Trump.