In a transfer that needs to be surprising to nobody, President Trump is giving the best civilian honor to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
On Monday, Trump took to Reality Social to boast about giving Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“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,” Mr. Trump mentioned in a social media publish. “Particulars as to time and place to observe. Thanks in your consideration to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
Trump’s announcement comes simply days after the disgraced legal professional was hospitalized with damaged bones following a automotive crash in New Hampshire.
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“Giuliani suffered ‘fractured thoracic vertebrae, a number of lacerations and contusions, in addition to accidents to his left arm and decrease leg’ after the automobile he was using in was ‘struck from behind at excessive pace,” his spokesperson advised CBS Information.
“There is no such thing as a American extra deserving of this honor,” Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman mentioned in a social media publish. “Mayor Rudy Giuliani took down the Mafia, saved New York Metropolis, comforted the nation following 9/11, and served in numerous different methods to enhance the lives of others. Thanks, President Trump, for honoring his life and legacy.”
Giuliani, 81, is thought for being an aggressive prosecutor in New Yok Metropolis in the course of the Nineteen Eighties and 90s. He grew to become referred to as “America’s mayor” after the assaults on Sept. 11, 2001.
Since then, he’s labored to undo all of his good work. He was disbarred in “disbarred in New York and Washington, D.C., and he declared chapter after being discovered answerable for $148 million for spreading falsehoods about Georgia election employees,” CBS Information notes.
Since then he’s change into an in depth adviser to President Trump. The Presidential Medal of Freedom was established by former President John F. Kennedy in 1963 to honor “…people who’ve made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or safety of the USA, world peace, or different important societal, public or non-public endeavors.”
