President Trump on Monday announced that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as his personal lawyer during the high-profile legal battle in the 2020 election results, would receive the Presidential post of President’s highest civilian honor.
“As the United States President, I am happy to announce that the greatest mayor in the history of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, and an equally great American Patriot, will receive the presidential medal of the highest civilian honor of our country,” Trump posted on the truth social.
The President said that more information about the time of the award will come later. Individuals are usually respected during ceremonies held at the White House.
Announced two days after Giuliani Was seriously injured in a car accident In New Hampshire. The security head of the former mayor said that Giuliani’s vehicle was “killed from back” while traveling on a highway “.
Giuliani was taken to a nearby trauma center, where he was “a fragmented thoracic vertebrae, several millions and contradictions as well as his left hand and lower leg injuries,” his chief, Michael Ragusa said in a statement by Michael Ragusa in the weekend.
He said Giuliani “was in great souls.”
Giuliani was released from the hospital on Monday afternoon, the new York Times Reported citing a friend of the former mayor.
Known as the “Mayor of the US” after 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Giuliani played a central role in Trump’s efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 election, although dozens of lawsuits filed in various states failed to change the results in favor of Trump.
Former American Associate Attorney General and the American Attorney for the southern district of New York faced a decline from their efforts around the 2020 election. Giuliani was permanently rejected from practicing law in Washington, DC last year. Two Georgia election workers also won a defamation decision of $ 148 million against GIULIANI, who arrived A settlement In the case earlier this year.
Hill has reached the White House for more information about the award prized on Monday.
– Tara Sutter contributed Reporting,
