rudy giuliani Was ‘assaulted’ by a worker and called a ‘f***** crook’ while campaigning for his son at a Staten Island supermarket on Sunday afternoon.
The 39-year-old store employee who was on the shift at the time of the alleged attack saw the former New York City The mayor slapped him.
The attacker, who was not named, was taken into custody while in the store and was charged with second-degree assault involving a man over the age of 65.
Surveillance footage from the store showed the worker barely tapping Donald Trump’s former lawyer on the back, but Giuliani appeared to be shaken by the test, describing it as “like a shot” and saying he was hit so hard It was that he almost fell to the ground.
Giuliani told about the incident WABC Radio Later on Sunday evening in which he said that he might be murdered.
‘I come out of the men’s room and a group of people surround me, hugging and kissing me. Suddenly, I feel a bullet in my back. Like someone shot me!,’ he began.
‘I feel this tremendous pain in my back, and I’m thinking, what – I didn’t even know what it was. Suddenly, I hear this guy say, ‘You’re a scoundrel,’ then he walks away so no one can catch him.
‘I went ahead but luckily I didn’t fall down. Lucky I’m a 78 year old guy who’s in great shape, because if I wasn’t, I’d fall to the ground and probably crack my skull and then I look around and that guy says words I can’t repeat can . ‘You f*** in’ whatever!
‘ He walks away screaming and shouting, ‘You’re gonna kill women!’
The activist, who is facing charges of assault, said, “You people think you are saving children, but you will kill women.”
Rudy Giuliani was attacked by a supermarket worker on Staten Island on Sunday while campaigning for his son Andrew after he was slapped (file photo)
Giulinai said he understood the remarks to be about abortion rights and the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade.
Giuliani said, ‘The Supreme Court has decided. ‘You don’t attack people because of it. I mean, go change it.’
‘He was either drunk or high. He works for ShopRite and I thought to myself that I might have overlooked it. But I had to arrest this guy because this is going on too much.
‘I mean I was a frail 78-year-old and broke my skull and died?’ He asked.
‘This has got to stop. It’s getting ridiculous,’ he said new York Times, ‘I have been in politics for 50 years, I have never been attacked like this.’
Giuliani said he had red marks on his back but no blood and that he managed to stay on his feet.
‘My back hurts, but otherwise I’m able to walk and stuff like that. It almost knocked me down. Thank God for the age of 78, I am in very good shape.’
Giuliani has flipped over the years when it comes to her stance on abortion, first opposing them, then backing them before once again backing down.
On his WABC radio show, he stated that he had gone through ‘a torturous, intellectual, and emotional and moral state with abortion’ before he finally opposed the practice.
Giuliani, 78, was at the supermarket as he stumped for his son Andrew, who is running to be governor of New York state (file photo)
Soon after the incident, Andrew Giuliani tweeted ‘Make New York safe again!’ Although not specifically mentioned the incident
Giuliani, 78, was in the supermarket as he stumped for his son, Andrew, who is running to be governor of New York state.
‘He’s doing fine,’ said son Andrew New York Post, ‘But it is a sad day when New York’s greatest crime fighter, the ‘Mayor of America’, was attacked. I blame the Left for promoting violence. this is madness.’
Andrew said his father was in good spirits and joked: ‘I went to the only person who is not voting for Andrew Giuliani.’
Witnesses and law enforcement say his father was shaken after the attack.
‘I was surprised. I was walking side by side with Rudy inside ShopRite. We’re talking, and suddenly an employee came out of nowhere and openly slapped her in the back and said, ‘Hey, what’s up?'” Rugova-Johnson explained. New York Post.
,[The attacker] Was on duty at that time,’ she said. ‘Police arrested him.’
The attack took place at a ShopRite store in Staten Island on Veterans Road
Giuliani is said to have been photographed by a store employee at the time of the attack
Giuliani was a lawyer for former President Donald Trump and has put forward unfounded claims of electoral fraud and wanted to dispute the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani, who was a lawyer for former President Donald Trump when he was in office, was photographed at the time of the attack.
‘Rudy was attacked,’ said Giuliani’s partner, Dr. Maria Ryan. ‘He is a 78-year-old man with a bad back and a bad knee.’
Soon after the incident, Andrew Giuliani tweeted ‘Make New York safe again!’ However, he did not specifically mention the incident.
An employee of the ShopRite store, who answered the phone, told DailyMail.com that he was “not allowed to say anything” about the incident.
Giuliani was ridiculed on Twitter for this incident.
‘very nice! I’ll never forgive slapping a government official until they do all the horrible things Rudy did and say, ‘One joked.
‘He was hit so hard that his hair started crying again,’ joked another.
‘Hopefully the Staten Island ShopRite employee had access to hand sanitizer,’ another Twitter user said
Giuliani was mocked on Twitter for this incident