Video: Rudy Giuliani praises early voting in Palm Beach County
During a brief press conference, former New York Mayor and Trump Ally Rudy Giuliani praised Palm Beach County’s early voting system for its transparency.
Palm Beach resident and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is out of a hospital after sustaining injuries Aug. 31 in a car crash in New Hampshire, his spokesman said.
The wreck happened after Guiliani had stopped to help a “domestic violence victim” that had flagged down his car, New Hampshire State Police said in a Sept. 1 update.
“Mayor Giuliani is progressing well following the motor vehicle accident that occurred Saturday evening, shortly after the mayor and I stopped to help what appeared to be a person in need of immediate assistance,” spokesperson Ted Goodman said in a Sept. 2 statement to the Daily News. “He has been discharged from the hospital and appreciates the love, well wishes and prayers.
“The mayor would like to thank the New Hampshire State Police, paramedics, Elliot Hospital, and all the physicians and nurses who provided incredible care,” said Goodman, who was driving Giuliani that day in a Ford Bronco.
An hour after Goodman and Giuliani stopped on Interstate 93 to aid the woman, a Honda HR-V traveling at high speed rear-ended their vehicle, police said.
The crash and the domestic violence incident are not believe to be connected, police say.
Giuliani sustained a fractured thoracic vertebra, “multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg,” his spokesperson Michael Ragusa, said in an Aug. 31 post on X. Giuliani was taken to a trauma center for treatment.
Giuliani left the trauma center as President Donald Trump announced in a post on Trust Social that Guiliani will be the next recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
In the post, Trump praised his longtime ally and friend and his former personal lawyer as “the greatest Mayor in the history of the New York City, and an equally great American Patriot.”
The post did not say when Trump plans to formally present Giuliani with the award, but said details will be released later.
A longtime figure in New York City politics, Giuliani served as the Republican mayor of the city from 1994 to 2001, during which he was known for advocating for tough-on-crime policies and his leadership during the 9/11 terrorist attack. He unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.
In August, the New York Post reported that Giuliani sold his New York penthouse apartment on 66th Street for nearly $5 million, cutting his last ties to the city he once led.
That was just over a year after he filed a declaration of domicile in Palm Beach County to declare the Palm Beach condo his permanent residence. His attorney at the time, Kenneth Caruso, argued in a court filing that the condo was protected by Florida law that says a homestead should be presumed.
The condo survived a settlement with two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who sued Giuliani and won a $148 million judgment in 2023 after he falsely said they had stuffed ballot boxes during the 2020 election, when Giuliani was acting as an attorney for Trump in the months following his campaign loss.
Freeman and Moss sought to receive Giuliani’s Palm Beach condo, New York apartment and other possessions, including watches and an antique Mercedes-Benz, to satisfy the 2023 judgment. The two sides reached a settlement in January that allowed Guiliani to keep his Palm Beach residence.
Giuliani bought the condo in the Southlake building in Palm Beach in February 2010 with his then-wife Judith Nathan Giuliani for a recorded $1.41 million. The apartment was last marketed for sale in 2019, before the couple’s divorce, with an asking price of $3.3 million. But a buyer never emerged, and Giuliani took sole possession of the condo as part of the couple’s divorce settlement.
According to court records, the condo is valued at $3.5 million. The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office website placed its value at $2.67 million in 2022, $3.07 million in 2023 and $3.5 million in 2024.
But how much time Giuliani actually spent there was called into question by attorneys for Freeman and Moss, who argued that Giuliani actually spent most of his time in other places, including New Hampshire.
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