Former New York City mayor and confidant of President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, is in “critical but stable condition” after being admitted to a Florida hospital Sunday, his spokesperson said Monday.
“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same strength now,” spokesman Ted Goodman said in a statement.
Here’s what we know.
What’s wrong with Rudy Giuliani?
Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for Trump during his first term, was admitted to Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach on May 3 with pneumonia on May 3 and was subsequently intubated, a source told The Palm Beach Post.
“The virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition,” Goodman said. “He is now breathing on his own, with his family and primary medical provider at his side.”
Goodman said that Giuliani’s diagnosis was complicated by restrictive airway disease, which he attributed to Giuliani’s presence at ground zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Giuliani could be heard coughing repeatedly during his online show “America’s Mayor Live” on May 1. He told viewers he was “a little under the weather.”
Giuliani’s health problems
Giuliani has had previous hospitalizations for respiratory ailments, including one for “flu-like symptoms” in 2007 and COVID-19 in 2020.
He was also hospitalized last September after suffering a fractured vertebra and other injuries in a car crash in New Hampshire.
In 2000, Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer, causing him to drop out of the U.S. Senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
How old is Rudy Giuliani?
Giuliani turns 82 on May 28.
Does Rudy Giuliani live in Florida?
Giuliani owns a unit in the Southlake condominium building in Palm Beach that he was allowed to keep under the terms of a settlement after losing a $145 million judgment in 2023 for falsely accusing two Georgia election workers of stuffing ballot boxes during the 2020 election.
Who is Rudy Giuliani?
Giuliani rose to fame as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he made a name for himself prosecuting organized crime bosses and Wall Street traders. Elected New York City mayor in 1993 on a “tough on crime” campaign, he earned the nickname “America’s Mayor” in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks as the world watched the city’s recovery, resilience, and spirit.
From that height, his reputation began dropping after unsuccessful senatorial and presidential runs, his involvement in the Trump-Ukraine scandal that led to Trump’s first impeachment, his unwavering public support for Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2000 election, multiple lawsuits and scandals, and his disbarment.
Giuliani served as Trump’s personal attorney during the president’s first term and became the public face of efforts to overturn the 2020 election. That work cost him his law licenses in New York and Washington, D.C., and formed the basis of court sanctions, criminal charges in multiple states, and a defamation lawsuit filed by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
Trump pardoned Giuliani in 2025 and said he plans to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the highest U.S. civilian honor.
In a May 4 Truth Social post, Trump called Giuliani “a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”
“What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!,” the president said. “They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!”
Hannah Phillips covers criminal justice at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach her at hphillips@pbpost.com. C. A. Bridges is a journalist for the USA TODAY Network-Florida’s service journalism Connect team. You can get all of Florida’s best content directly in your inbox each weekday day by signing up for the free newsletter, Florida TODAY.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Rudy Giuliani remains in Florida hospital. Latest condition update
Reporting by Hannah Phillips and C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida / Palm Beach Post
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