Giuliani performed a key function in try to overturn Trump’s loss within the 2020 election by selling false claims of fraud.
Printed On 1 Sep 2025
United States President Donald Trump says he’ll award Rudy Giuliani, a former New York Metropolis mayor and shut ally who participated in efforts to overturn Trump’s loss within the 2020 election, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Trump stated on Monday that he would grant the nation’s highest civilian honour to Giuliani, calling him a “nice patriot” in a put up on his social media web site, Reality Social.
“As President of the USA of America, I’m happy to announce that Rudy Giuliani, the best Mayor within the historical past of New York Metropolis, and an equally nice American Patriot, will obtain THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Nation’s highest civilian honor,” Trump wrote.
Giuliani rose to prominence in US politics for main New York Metropolis in the course of the September 11, 2001, assaults and their aftermath. He later turned a lawyer for Trump, participating in an effort to maintain him in workplace, regardless of his loss within the 2020 election, by spreading Trump’s false claims of great fraud.
The disgraced former mayor was later disbarred for these actions, and a pair of Georgia election staff who stated they obtained demise threats after Giuliani falsely accused them of serving to to rig the voting course of gained a $148m defamation judgement in opposition to him.
The 81-year-old Giuliani was hospitalised on Saturday after a automotive crash within the state of New Hampshire.
He suffered a fractured thoracic vertebra, together with a number of lacerations, contusions and accidents to his left arm and leg, in keeping with his safety chief, Michael Ragusa, who stated on Monday that he could be launched “quickly”.
The Medal of Freedom, first launched in 1963, is usually awarded to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the prosperity, values, or safety of the US, world peace, or different important social, public, or personal endeavours.