Trump says he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom | Rudy Giuliani
Donald Trump said on Monday that he would award Rudy Giuliani, the presidential medal of freedom, the greatest civil honor in the country, two days after his longtime political ally was seriously injured in a car accident.
The decision grants the prize on a man once rented for having directed New York after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and later sanctioned by the courts and struck off for having amplified the false allegations concerning the 2020 American presidential election. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, was also detailed in two states; He denied reprehensible acts.
Trump on his social platform of truth called Giuliani the “greatest mayor in New York history, and an equally large American patriot”.
For a large part of the last two decades, Giuliani’s public life has been defined by a striking rise and fall. After managing New York following the September 11 attacks, he launched a brief campaign for the republican presidential appointment and became one of the country’s most recognizable political figures. But as Trump’s personal lawyer, he became a central figure in efforts to overthrow the 2020 elections. The courts have repeatedly rejected the allegations of fraud he had advanced, and two former Georgia elections won a defamation judgment of $ 148 million against him.
The election assistants, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, said that Giuliani’s efforts to promote Trump’s lies in stolen elections led to death threats that made them fear their lives.
Giuliani was struck off in New York and Washington DC for having made false declarations on elections several times, and he was criminally charged in Georgia and Arizona as part of the efforts to cancel the loss of Trump against Democrat Joe Biden.
Giuliani, 81, was hospitalized after the Saturday evening collision in New Hampshire. State police said he was a passenger in a rented Ford Bronco led by his spokesperson, Ted Goodman, when the vehicle was hit by a Honda HR-V. Giuliani has undergone a fractured thoracic vertebra with several lacerations, bruises and injuries to his arm and his left leg, according to his head of security, Michael Ragusa. Ragusa said on Monday that Giuliani had stayed at the hospital but was to be released “soon”.
The medal of freedom, created in 1963, is awarded to people who have contributed particularly meritorious to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace or public cultural or other efforts.
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