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Trump says he’s awarding Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom days after former mayor’s car crash
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Donald Trump says he plans to award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, following the former New York City mayor’s hospitalization after a car wreck over the Labor Day weekend.
The president’s former attorney, who launched a spurious legal effort to keep Trump in office in 2020, has spent the last several years combatting a defamation lawsuit and criminal charges connected to his campaign to overturn election results in states the president lost.
The former New York City mayor, 81, suffered a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and other injuries after a 19-year-old driver smashed into his car in New Hampshire on August 30.
He was released from a hospital in New Hampshire on Monday afternoon.
“As President of the United States of America, I am pleased to announce that Rudy Giuliani, the greatest Mayor in the history of New York City, and an equally great American Patriot, will receive THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Country’s highest civilian honor,” Trump announced on his Truth Social on Monday.
“Details as to time and place to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he wrote.
Giuliani’s security chief Michael Ragusa told The Independent that “a little car accident won’t be slowing him down.”
“He is eager to return to business and continue fighting for this country, as he has proudly done for the past 50 years,” Ragusa said.
This is a developing story
