Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and personal attorney to President Trump, was admitted to a Florida hospital and was in critical but stable condition Sunday, his spokesman Ted Goodman said in a statement.

The hospitalization removes one of Trump's most prominent political allies from public view at a moment when the 81-year-old Giuliani has been waging a daily online program from Palm Beach and continuing to litigate the legal aftermath of the 2020 election. Goodman did not say which hospital admitted Giuliani, what sent him there or how long he had been a patient.

Spokesman's statement

"Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he's fighting with that same level of strength as we speak," Goodman said. "We do ask that you join us in prayer for America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani."

The statement, first posted on X on Sunday, gave no prognosis. CNBC reported that Giuliani's son, Andrew Giuliani, is executive director of the presidential task force for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which the United States is hosting with Canada and Mexico.

Friday broadcast

Giuliani hosted his online program, "America's Mayor Live," from Palm Beach on Friday night, two days before the hospitalization was disclosed. He coughed at the open of the show and told viewers his voice was strained.

His voice was "a little under the weather," Giuliani told viewers, according to Al Jazeera's account of the broadcast.

The former mayor was hospitalized in 2025 with a spinal fracture and other injuries after a vehicle in which he was a passenger was struck from behind on a highway in Manchester, N.H., CBS News reported. Trump said days after that crash he would award Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Trump's response

Trump confirmed the hospitalization in a post on his Truth Social platform Sunday night, calling Giuliani a "True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR."

"What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL - AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!" Trump wrote. "They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!"

The Republican president repeated the false claim that he won the 2020 election. Recounts, audits and dozens of court rulings turned up no evidence of significant fraud.

Legal record

Giuliani served as New York's mayor from 1994 to 2001 and led the city's response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack on the World Trade Center. He made an unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and later joined Trump's legal team.

A federal court in Washington found Giuliani liable for defaming two Georgia election workers, a mother and daughter, with claims they had committed ballot fraud. He was ordered to pay nearly $150 million. New York disbarred him in July 2024, and Washington, D.C., followed two months later. He was indicted in Georgia and Arizona over the 2020 election; the Fulton County, Ga., case was dropped in November and the Arizona attorney general is appealing a ruling that returned that case to a grand jury. Trump pardoned Giuliani and others tied to the false-elector effort in November 2025, a measure that does not reach state charges.

Missing voices

No Trump-aligned or partisan-right outlet was reachable for fresh comment Sunday on Giuliani's condition or on Trump's statement. The available reporting Sunday came from CNBC, NBC News, CBS News and Al Jazeera, with Goodman's statement and Trump's Truth Social post as the only on-the-record principal voices.

Goodman did not say when he expected to release further information about Giuliani's condition.