Tragedy can strike at any time. There’s no telling when it can occur.
And a top Trump ally is in serious condition after this brutal accident.
Rudy Giuliani, the tough-as-nails former mayor who steered New York City through its darkest days after 9/11, just cheated death in a brutal car crash in New Hampshire. At 81, this American legend is no stranger to battles, but this one hit him like a freight train, landing him in the hospital with a busted spine and a back brace that’s now his constant companion.
The nightmare unfolded Saturday night on Interstate-93, when a reckless teen driver slammed into the back of Giuliani’s rented SUV at what felt like warp speed. Giuliani, speaking on “The Rudy Giuliani Show” Tuesday, didn’t hold back on the sheer terror of the moment.
“We got hit in the back, I would say, the hardest I’ve ever been hit in my whole life, including two accidents I was in when I was a child and playing football,” he recounted, painting a vivid picture of the chaos.
The impact was so ferocious it spun their vehicle slightly, jolting Giuliani’s body like a ragdoll. “It seemed like the car was going maximum speed 70-80 miles an hour, kind of spinned us a teeny bit…instead of getting a whiplash in my neck, I got a whiplash in my body. My body got thrown forward in a second and thrown back and I could feel the pain immediately in the middle of my body.”
In that split-second horror, Giuliani’s first instinct was to check on his trusted advisor, Ted Goodman, who was behind the wheel. He saw Goodman pinned by the steering wheel, looking battered but alive.
“I got terrible injuries but I would have been killed if I didn’t have my seatbelt on,” Giuliani emphasized, crediting that simple safety measure for saving his life. “I would have gone right through the window, so thank God I had the seatbelt on. I felt more pain than maybe I ever felt.”
Goodman, equally shaken, remembered Giuliani’s immediate concern for others. The former mayor’s first words were to ask if he was okay, then to inquire about the young driver whose car ended up wrecked in the median.
The 19-year-old behind the wheel was a mess—bleeding, crying, and utterly distraught after the 10 p.m. collision. All three involved—Giuliani, Goodman, and the teen—were rushed to the hospital, but thankfully, none faced life-threatening wounds.
Giuliani, forever known as “America’s mayor” for his unyielding leadership post-9/11, took the worst of it: fractured vertebrae along with nasty cuts and bruises on his left arm and lower leg. It’s a miracle he’s walking away from this.
Now strapped into a back brace that’s literally holding his spine together, Giuliani is on the mend. “I’m feeling like I’m recovering as the doctor predicted,” he shared, planning to wear the brace for the next two weeks whenever he’s up and about.
He figures full recovery is just around the corner. “I think within three or four weeks I’ll be completely recovered.”
What makes this story even more inspiring is what happened right before the crash. Giuliani and Goodman had pulled over to aid a victim of domestic violence, calling the cops to step in.
They were true heroes even before the wreck, merging back onto the highway when disaster struck.
Giuliani got out of the hospital Monday, but the timing couldn’t have been better. President Trump announced he’d award the former mayor the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the top civilian honor in the United States.
“That was actually the best medicine, I felt totally better after that,” Giuliani beamed. “Now, by giving the medicine of a presidential freedom medal, all of the sudden my pain went away.”
This recognition from Trump isn’t just a pat on the back; it’s a testament to Giuliani’s lifelong fight for America, from cracking down on crime in New York to standing firm against the deep state.
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