Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a car accident in New Hampshire this weekend that left him with a fractured spine.
The resilient former New York mayor, who is a close friend of President Trump, was released from a hospital Monday afternoon in "high spirits", the New York Times reported.
Michael Ragusa, the head of Giuliani's security, released a statement on Sunday explaining that Giuliani was struck "from behind at high speed" on Saturday night.
Moments earlier, Giuliani had stopped on the side of the highway to assist a woman who was involved in a domestic violence incident. Giuliani called 911 and stayed with the woman until police arrived.
"Following this, while traveling on the highway, Mayor Giuliani’s vehicle was struck from behind at high speed,” Ragusa’s statement continued. “He was transported to a nearby trauma center, where he was diagnosed with a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg.”
Ragusa said the car accident was random and not related to the domestic incident preceding it.
19-year-old Lauren Kemp, of Concord, has been identified as the driver of the Honda HR-V that hit Giuliani's Ford Bronco, which was being driven by his spokesperson Ted Goodman on Interstate 93 near Manchester.
State troopers witnessed the crash, which sent both cars into the median, police said.
“Thank you to all the people that have reached out since learning the news about my Father,” Andrew Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani’s son, wrote in a post on X. “Your prayers mean the world.”
The sad news of Giuliani's injuries led to mockery from some leftists on social media - but Giuliani is staying strong, his friend Arthur L. Aidala told the Times.
“I have some healing to do, but I’m otherwise in great shape," Giuliani told Aidala.
Giuliani became known as "America's mayor" for lifting the nation up after the horror of September 11, 2001.
In the Trump era, Giuliani has become a widely hated figure among Democrats. His loyalty to Trump has come with a price: for his efforts to challenge the 2020 election, Giuliani lost his law license, and he had his mugshot taken in a since-derailed criminal case brought by a disgraced Democratic prosecutor.
The former mayor was also ordered to fork over $148 million to a pair of election workers who demanded just about everything he owned, including his apartments and World Series rings, before he reached an undisclosed settlement.
In the wake of Giuliani's car accident, President Trump announced that he is awarding his friend the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A Texas man was arrested for threatening to chop off the head of a Trump administration staffer and kill their family - with the persistent suspect continuing to leave voicemails after the feds told him to stop.
Thomas Austria Crouse, of Austin, is facing up to five years in prison if convicted. The identity of the victim was not shared by the U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas, which announced the charges.
The FBI, Secret Service, and Capitol Police are investigating the case, which began on the night of August 25 with an alarming phone call.
According to a criminal complaint, Crouse called the "personal phone of an individual working for the President of the United States" and left a voicemail. It was not immediately clear how Crouse got the person's cell number.
Crouse "allegedly threatened to find the administration official, decapitate them, and kill the victim’s family," a Justice Department said.
"Given the violent nature of the voicemail and the references to the victim’s job as a presidential staffer, the voicemail was reported to the FBI. The criminal complaint alleges that further investigation revealed the phone call came from Austin. Crouse was identified as the caller."
The following day, Crouse agreed to stop making threats during an interview with the FBI, but the pledge lasted only a few hours.
The suspect instead continued to leave five additional voicemails for the victim, telling them to commit suicide.
On August 27, the feds arrested Crouse "based on a criminal complaint accusing him of transmitting an interstate communication containing a threat to injure the person of another."
Was the target a member of Trump's Cabinet? Or someone less well-known?
We do not have many details, but we do know that the incendiary climate being stirred up by the left exposes anyone tangentially connected to Trump to danger - including rank-and-file ICE agents who have come under violent attack for just doing their jobs.
Trump, of course, continues to face constant threats that have been encouraged by years of hyperbole comparing him to a dictator.
While the Justice Department is taking these threats seriously, the same, sadly, cannot be said of our deeply compromised judiciary.
Judge James Boasberg - the notorious Obama judge who tried to hold Trump officials in contempt for ignoring his arbitrary demands to stop deportation flights - has just released a woman from federal custody who had threatened to kill Trump.
The suspect in that case, Nathalie Jones, is a self-described schizophrenic who blames Trump for the death toll from COVID - a belief that was likely encouraged by the hysterical, leftist media.
The Justice Department urged the courts to keep Jones in jail, noting her "brazen decision to drive to Washington, DC, the day after telling law enforcement she would take the POTUS's life", but Boasberg found she is not a danger to the public and let her go, pending trial.
Washington D.C. has become markedly safer since President Trump's federal takeover last month, leading the president to boast that the nation's capital is now a "crime free" zone.
"DC IS NOW A CRIME FREE ZONE, IN JUST 12 DAYS!!! President DJT," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Metropolitan Police data shared on September 1 shows that carjackings have fallen 50%, homicides have gone down 38%, and overall violent crime is down 19% since the crackdown began August 7.
Trump's success has the city's own Democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, to credit him with safer streets.
“We know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer,” the mayor said last week.
Trump began the crackdown after a brutal carjacking attack in August left a former DOGE staffer bloodied.
According to a Labor Day post from attorney general Pam Bondi, there have been nearly 1,600 arrests, and 165 illegal guns seized so far.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been involved in the crackdown, which has led to the arrest of some foreign gang members.
Trump shared an example of a report he received with his social media following, which noted, in part, that an "El Salvadorian national and member of the MS-13 designated terrorist organization was administratively arrested."
Trump has threatened to intervene in other Democratic cities plagued by street crime, including Chicago, where over 50 people were shot this Labor Day weekend. The governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker (D), has refused Trump's offer of help.
"Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME. He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming! MAGA. President DJT," Trump wrote.
In another post, Trump praised mayor Bowser for her cooperation, which he contrasted with the defiance of other Democratic leaders "who spend all of their time trying to justify violent Crime, instead of working with us to completely ELIMINATE it, which we have done in Washington, D.C., NOW A CRIME FREE ZONE,” he added.
Next, we can expect out-of-touch liberals to "fact check" Trump's claim that D.C. is "crime free."
Of course, no city is ever completely safe, but Trump is absolutely correct that D.C. is in much better shape now than it was a few weeks ago.
Do Democrats want to be a part of the problem, or the solution? The choice is theirs.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) signed an executive order on Saturday that ordered city police not to cooperate with federal agents or military troops amid a supposedly imminent crackdown on crime there similar to the one going on in Washington, D.C.
“We do not have the luxury of time,” Johnson said during a press conference that included other city leaders.
“We have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees some type of militarized activity by the federal government. It is unclear at this time what that will look like exactly.”
The order was meant to show city employees and residents “how we can stand up against this tyranny," he continued.
Police were ordered to be in uniform, identify themselves, follow body cam procedures, and not to wear face masks, which would set them apart from federal agents.
They were also ordered to enforce all local laws, even if federal agents said something different.
The order "urges" federal agents to also not wear masks and to follow local laws, and aims to prohibit the deployment of any military to the area.
“We will use the courts if that’s necessary,” Johnson warned.
Trump had threatened on social media that Chicago was "next" for a federal crackdown including immigration raids and federalization of police if the local officials couldn't get crime under control.
His actions in D.C. have been successful as far as dropping the crime rate, but it's too soon to tell whether those improvements will last after the feds leave.
The White House responded to Johnson's press conference, calling it a "publicity stunt" and urging city officials to handle the crime problem themselves, if they were able.
“If these Democrats focused on fixing crime in their own cities instead of doing publicity stunts to criticize the President, their communities would be much safer,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement.
Border czar Tom Homan has said that other sanctuary cities including New York, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle could have ICE agents deployed there if crime rates continue.
“Cracking down on crime should not be a partisan issue," Jackson said.
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As Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook challenges President Donald Trump's push to fire her for alleged mortgage fraud, a top Trump official is offering her advice.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with guest host Jackie DeAngelis on the Fox News Channel, Peter Navarro, the White House senior counsel for Trade and Manufacturing, said: "What I think Lisa Cook needs to do is get up and explain to the American people what she did.
"Is there a reason that's legitimate for what seems like the worst kind of home fraud?"
DeAngelis agreed, saying, "I think the American people would love to hear it if she would stand up and explain that to us."
Navarro explained: "With respect to the president's ability to fire [Cook], of course he does."
"Here we've got a a case of what appears to be apparent malfeasance. This is not a slap-on-the-wrist thing."
"I went to prison, Democrats put me in prison for defending the Constitution. And I was there , there were a couple of guys there who had similar kind of bank-loan fraud. They were there for years. They had their assets forfeited and they had burdensome restitution."
Navarro discussed his opinion piece in the Federalist, in which he said Trump is perfectly right in firing Cook "for cause."
"Cook's 'cause' is alleged malfeasance tied to her mortgage paperwork. According to public reporting, in June 2021, Cook obtained a $203,000 mortgage in Michigan. Just two weeks later, in July 2021, she signed for a $540,000 mortgage in Georgia.
Each loan reportedly included a primary-residence occupancy clause requiring her to move in within 60 days and remain for at least one year unless the lender consented. If, as alleged, both applications represented those properties as 'primary residences,' two homes in two states two weeks apart creates an irreconcilable timeline absent lender consent. Those facts remain subject to litigation, but they are sufficient to test integrity and meet a for-cause threshold pending judicial review."
"Cook's firing is not about her incompetence and partisan weaponization of Fed policy — 'cause' though her incompetence well might be. Nor is Cook's firing an attack on the Fed's independence.
"Cook's firing is about the paperwork: two mortgages, two states, two weeks apart, both allegedly marked as a 'primary residence.' On the face of such alleged malfeasance, cause exists, and that is enough for a president to act while the courts resolve the rest.
"The lesson is simple: In public service, integrity is judged in real time, not deferred until a jury renders a verdict."
On another critical issue, Navarro says White House officials "feel very optimistic" about overturning an appeals court decision that said Trump's sweeping tariffs are unconstitutional.
"If we lose the case, President Trump is right. It will be the end of the United States," Navarro warned.
On Friday, Trump himself said of the tariff ruling: "A Highly Partisan Appeals Court incorrectly said that our Tariffs should be removed, but they know the United States of America will win in the end.
"If these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country. It would make us financially weak, and we have to be strong. The U.S.A. will no longer tolerate enormous Trade Deficits and unfair Tariffs and Non Tariff Trade Barriers imposed by other Countries, friend or foe, that undermine our Manufacturers, Farmers, and everyone else.
"If allowed to stand, this Decision would literally destroy the United States of America. At the start of this Labor Day weekend, we should all remember that TARIFFS are the best tool to help our Workers, and support Companies that produce great MADE IN AMERICA products.
"For many years, Tariffs were allowed to be used against us by our uncaring and unwise Politicians. Now, with the help of the United States Supreme Court, we will use them to the benefit of our Nation, and Make America Rich, Strong, and Powerful Again! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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Former New York City Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized with severe injuries after being struck by a car at high speed in New Hampshire on Saturday night.
Michael Ragusa, head of Giuliani's security, disclosed some details on X, indicating: "On the evening of August 30, 2025, in New Hampshire, Mayor Giuliani was involved in a motor vehicle accident.
"Prior to the incident, he was flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident. Mayor Giuliani immediately rendered assistance and contacted 911. He remained on scene until responding officers arrived to ensure her safety."
"Following this, while traveling on the highway, Mayor Giuliani's vehicle was struck from behind at high speed. He was transported to a nearby trauma center, where he was diagnosed with a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg."
Ragusa stressed: "This was not a targeted attack. We ask everyone to respect Mayor Giuliani's privacy and recovery, and refrain from spreading unfounded conspiracy theories."
He noted Giuliani had been traveling in a rental car.
One commenter asked specifically: "Was it the alleged perpetrator of domestic violence who struck his car, or was it random / unrelated?"
"Random and unrelated," Ragusa replied.
Another wondered: "Where was his security?"
Ragusa answered: "You can't control reckless drivers hitting you from behind my brother."
He is in "good spirits and recovering tremendously," Ragusa told Fox News Digital.
"He'll be released in a few days and he's doing great. Conscious, alert, strong. He'll be back to business as usual this week," he added.
Gen. Mike Flynn, a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term, said: "Prayers coming your way Mayor!!! Thank God you're alright and thank you for always being there to help others in need. That's why you'll always be 'America's Mayor.'"
The Department of Homeland Security has canceled thousands of contracts through the Federal Emergency Management Agency after watchdog groups found billions of dollars in fraud and waste, the Daily Caller reported in an exclusive. This move comes under the direction of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, following years of agency failures.
Some of the most egregious examples include nearly $10.7 million allocated to contracted media marketing for the Ready Campaign, as well as an additional $3.3 million funded to FEMA's internal marketing department, which was intended to encourage employees to complete an internal survey. Meanwhile, FEMA spent $645,000 on hosting meetings that had as few as 15 attendees and lasted just an hour.
An additional $1.6 million was wasted on setting up a pair of routine workshops, and $1.27 million was allocated for a "conference center concierge" to provide basic services, including preparing meeting rooms and reserving audio equipment. Within the Employee Relations Branch, FEMA contracted a company to shred documents and file paperwork for $594,000 and paid another $500,000 for social media recruiting.
Latosha G. who was paid for her endorsement as part of the half-million-dollar effort, boasted online about the process. "I applied that night, and I actually got a call the next day to do an interview. And I actually ended up getting a job as a local hire. A position came open as a data management specialist. I applied, I actually got an interview, and I actually got the position," Latosha added.
The flagrant waste uncovered by DHS's inspector general and the Government Accountability Office is part of a troubling pattern within the agency. Both entities have been attempting to bring FEMA's spending under control by curbing excessive spending and promoting proper stewardship of its budget allocation, but has met extreme resistance.
"Any American who opened the books at FEMA and saw their lackluster spending controls and policies would be horrified. Secretary [Kristi] Noem has been an extraordinary leader, bringing spending best practices, fiscal responsibility, and mission alignment to an agency that has run amok for far too long," a FEMA spokesperson said.
President Donald Trump's administration has attempted to rectify some of these issues, including monthly check-ins with disaster survivors to monitor progress toward "realistic" and "achievable" housing goals based on their living standards prior to the disaster that left them homeless. Predictably, FEMA leadership is reluctant to relinquish control over the purse strings and continues its wasteful spending.
That was quite evident during Noem's confirmation hearing when Cameron Hamilton, who was acting FEMA administrator at the time, dug in his heels when questions about the agency's spending habits came up. He was gone from the agency just days later, and David Richard was tapped to replace him.
It's not just that the agency wasted taxpayer dollars in the course of its bureaucratic business. FEMA leaders did this while also, at times, abandoning the very mission for which they were given that money: disaster relief.
The agency arguably exists primarily to deploy federal help in times of natural and other disasters. Unfortunately, a 2022 inspector general's report revealed that FEMA also struggled to deliver aid to affected Americans in the aftermath of Hurricanes Maria and Irma.
The agency lost nearly 40% of the supplies sent to Puerto Rico and failed to distribute funds to those impacted by the storm's devastation for several years. In 2024, a video emerged that purportedly showed pallets full of bottled water kept locked in a 43,000 square foot warehouse after Maria made landfall on the island nation in September 2017. It caused outraged after it was widely shared to social media.
These palletts of water were just a portion of the $257 million in supplies that went missing while people on the island went without clean water. FEMA also gave $156 million to a sole proprietor who promised to provide 30 million meals to hungry islanders. Shockingly, only 50,000 were ever distributed.
Can confirm that in 2020 supplies that went to Puerto Rico (including countless pallets of water) were found just sitting unused in a locked 43,000 sq ft warehouse since Maria hit in Sept 2017, and in an internal report, FEMA admitted it failed in its response there. https://t.co/HKIkwp5aaj pic.twitter.com/9lh8GahXQs
— Truthstream Media (@truthstreamnews) October 5, 2024
Government waste is always outrageous, but FEMA has taken it to a new level by doing so while disaster-affected Americans waited for relief that would never come. Noem is right to clean house and cancel contracts until the agency is running as it should be and helping those in need.
Lisa Cook has been hit with a second criminal referral, adding new pressure on the embattled Federal Reserve Governor as she defies President Trump's decision to fire her for mortgage fraud.
The complaint, from federal housing regulator Bill Pulte, flags a third home that Cook owns in Massachusetts, while raising new questions about her properties in Georgia and Michigan.
“3 strikes and you’re out. Today, US Federal Housing sent a 2nd Criminal Referral in the matter of Lisa D. Cook, related to a mortgage on a 3rd property and alleged misrepresentations about her properties to the United States Government during her time as Governor of the Federal Reserve,” Pulte wrote on X.
According to Pulte, Cook got a 15-year mortgage in 2021 for a condo in Massachusetts priced at $361,000, listing it as her "second home."
Eight months later, Cook declared the home as an investment property and reported $15,000-50,000 in rental income.
“Second homes receive lower mortgage costs than investment properties, because investment properties are inherently riskier,” Pulte noted in his complaint.
“This is extremely troubling because, in addition to other reasons, by potentially falsely representing the property as a second home, Cook may have received savings by not declaring it as an investment property.”
Earlier this month, Pulte filed a complaint with the Justice Department that accused Cook of claiming her Michigan and Georgia homes as her primary residences at the same time. The complaint triggered Trump to fire Cook, a Biden appointee, who filed a lawsuit Thursday to keep her job.
Her lawyers blamed the discrepancies in her mortgage statements on a "clerical error" that occurred before she joined the central bank, but the new criminal referral alleges Cook made "multiple false representations" to the government while working at the Federal Reserve.
For instance, Pulte alleges that there is reason to believe that Cook is currently renting out her Ann Arbor, Michigan property, despite listing it as a primary residence.
Furthermore, Pulte says that Cook has in the past or is currently renting out her Atlanta, Georgia property, which she declared a primary residence in government disclosures from 2022 through 2025; Cook joined the Fed in 2023.
Pulte is asking the DOJ to probe "further potential criminal violations as well as material misrepresentations to the United States Senate and the United States Government in order to, amongst other things, acquire and retain her position as Governor.”
Cook's lawyer, former Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell, dismissed the fresh allegations as a "smear."
“This is an obvious smear campaign aimed at discrediting Gov. Cook by a political operative who has taken to social media more than 30 times in the last two days and demanded her removal before any review of the facts or evidence,” Lowell said.
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Long have leftists insisted that "thoughts and prayers" have no place in America when there is an eruption of evil, like this week in Minneapolis when a man calling himself a woman shot up a Catholic church, killing two students and injuring many more.
After that shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, multiple Democrats, progressives and others went public with their condemnation of prayer. A Minnesota bishop scolded the Minneapolis mayor for his comments, explaining that's what is needed at such times.
But now an analysis at the Federalist, from executive editor Joy Pullman, notes that those Democrat talking points are a red flag.
"The New York Post published excerpts of the shooter's journal posted on YouTube that include a drawing of him communing with a Satanic figure in a mirror. As I've written before, Satan-worshippers can be startlingly more direct than many Christians about the connections between their spiritual and political beliefs.
"This image is yet another striking testimony — from the dark side! — about the connections between queer ideology and the demonic. So are passages in the shooter's journal that read as if they came straight out of the mouth of a demon: 'I also love when kids get shot, I love to see kids get torn apart.' Pictures of his arsenal show a gun magazine inscribed with the words: 'Where is your God?'" she explained.
She continued, "According to reporter Andy Ngo, transgender ghouls are celebrating the attempted mass murder online. The quotes he provides read like a leftist fantasy about what a 'fundamentalist Christian' movie script would put in the mouths of trans activists: 'MORE DEAD CHRISTIANS LOL.' 'Based. Take the fight to their kids so they can feel what it's like to be attacked for your identity.' 'Future religious extremeists [sic] dying isn't a bad thing.' 'Won't someone please think of the poor innocent Christian transphobes that just want trans people dedd??'"
She cited Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Democrat member of Congress from Florida, who posted, "These children were probably praying when they were shot to death at catholic school. Don't give us your f—— thoughts and prayers."
Frost later said on television, "We've had it with the thoughts and prayers for years, for decades," prompting Pullman to note, "If you made a list of who hates prayers, Satan would be at the top of that list for sure. Prayer is perhaps the pre-eminent way to fight him. The less prayer, the less Satan is restrained. Now why would Democrats want that?"
Pulllman cited Frey's trashing of "thoughts and prayers," and noted, "The sentiments he's communicating are the straightforwardly demonic, despairing lies that prayer does not work and that God is not listening and He doesn't provide justice."
Others said prayers don't stop bullets and bashed Christians for referencing an "invisible sky-being."
There is an answer to such "demonic screeches," the analysis confirmed, revealing it's: God was there with these children in their suffering, and He is with them now. God is not dead, He is alive, and so are all who have died in the faith, who with Christ will one day be resurrected. All martyrs have overcome Satan forever 'by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.' Death is not a moment of despair for a Christian, it is a moment of triumph and glory."
She cited former Federalist colleague Emily Jashinsky, who wrote, "It's really time to retire this cheap hit on people of faith, especially in cases where they're actually the direct targets of an attack. Those little kids don't believe the prayers they were saying today shield them from earthly tragedy or excuse them from doing good works."
Pullman noted that her primary point was different:: "It's to highlight the directly Satanic words coming out of the mouths of Democrat Party leaders and followers. There's a truly shocking overlap between what Satan would say and what well-known political leftists are completely comfortable saying to hundreds of millions onscreen."
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Ever since an illegal alien holding a Commercial Driver's License, or CDL, in Florida caused a deadly crash as he made an unauthorized U-turn in an 18-wheeler earlier this month, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and others have called for a stricter and safer system, especially focusing on the English-language proficiency requirement.
Now, also out of Florida, we know how people like Harjinder Singh, an Indian national living unlawfully in the U.S. who failed his English test miserably but still managed to get a license, may have passed the reading test to receive their CDL – by cheating.
According to First Coast News, an elaborate cheating system among potential truck drivers in Jacksonville has been uncovered, with five men being arrested.
Reports the TV station, "Investigators say people have been rigging their way into commercial driver's licenses, putting everyone on Florida highways at risk."
The scheme involves the non-English-speaking test taker wearing a T-shirt with a small hole in the front. Under the shirt, a cellphone is strapped to the chest so the camera can "see" out the hole.
As the test is taken, the "brains" of the operation can see the test off site and relay the correct answers to the man via an earpiece.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the scheme was highly organized. Investigators identified multiple addresses in Jacksonville where dozens of men were registered as applicants, even though the homes were far too small to actually house them all.
Also, some of the arrested men requested interpreters because they could not speak or read English, including Ukrainian and other foreign languages.
Law enforcement praised the DMV employees at the testing locations for reporting suspicious behavior when the men wiggled in their chairs to position the iPhone cameras.
Singh is charged in Florida with three count of vehicular homicide.