ABC: (WABC) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from pneumonia and is being monitored as a precautionary measure, his spokesman said on Monday.
He remains in critical but stable condition, the spokesman said.
The update came after officials said that the 81-year-old Giuliani was hospitalized in critical condition on Sunday.
Giuliani served as New York City’s mayor from 1994 to 2001. Spokesman Ted Goodman said that on 9/11, Giuliani “ran toward the towers to help those in need, which later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease.”
“This condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition,” Goodman said.
Goodman said that Giuliani is now breathing on his own, with his family and primary medical provider at his side.
“Mayor Giuliani is the ultimate fighter-as he has demonstrated throughout his life-and he is winning this battle,” Goodman said. “His family deeply appreciates the outpouring of love and support. The mayor believes in the power of prayer, and we are feeling that strength today.”
After his term as mayor, Giuliani was a personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, who wrote about Giuliani’s hospitalization in a social media post on Sunday. The president called Giuliani “a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”
A spokesperson for Eric Adams, who was the city’s mayor from 2022 to 2025, noted Giuliani’s service in a statement.
“From his years as a federal prosecutor to leading New York City through its darkest day on 9/11, he stood with this city when it needed him most,” Adams spokesperson Todd Shapiro said.
