Over the weekend, Rudy Giuliani, 78, was assaulted by Daniel Gill, 39, at a ShopRite.
Gill, from Staten Island, was arrested Sunday afternoon after slapping former President Donald Trump‘s lawyer.
The ShopRite worker was initially charged with second-degree assault involving a person over age 65.
Rudy Giuliani told the media that he was participating in a political event for his son, Andrew Giuliani, when the incident occurred.
The controversial ex-mayor of New York City was leaving the restroom to greet a group of Republican supporters when Daniel Gil approached him and hit him behind the head.
The ShopRite worker was caught on video slapping Rudy Giuliani on the neck. Giuliani told The Post about the dramatic slap behind the neck: “All of a sudden, I feel this, ‘Bam!’ on my back. I don’t know if they helped me not fall down, but I just about fell down, but I didn’t. I feel this tremendous pain in my back, and I’m thinking, what the — I didn’t even know what it was. All of a sudden, I hear this guy say, ‘You’re a f–king scumbag,’ then he moves away so nobody can grab him.”
According to Rudy Giuliani, Daniel Gill screamed at him that he was going to kill women in reference to the controversial decision of the US Supreme Court to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
Giuliani went on to say: “And he says, ‘You, you’re one of the people that’s gonna kill women. You’re going to kill women. You and your f–king friend are gonna kill women. Then he starts yelling out all kinds of, just curses, and every once in a while, he puts in that woman thing. You guys think you’re saving babies, but you’re gonna kill women.”
Talking about the Supreme Court’s unsurprising reversal, Rudy Giuliani had this to say: “The Supreme Court made a decision. You don’t go around attacking people because of it. I mean, go get it changed.”
Rudy Giuliani was quick to call a local radio station to give more details about the incident by explaining: “It felt like somebody shot me, Luckily, I” m a 78-year-old who is in pretty good shape. If I wasn’t, I would have hit the ground and probably cracked my skull.”
Rudy Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, said with his past tough-on-crime policies as mayor, he had to make the right decision and call the police to arrest Daniel Gill.
The high-profile Republican went on to explain that he had to make an example out of Gill and added: “I say to myself, ‘You know something? I gotta get this guy arrested. I talk about the ‘broken windows’ theory all the time. You can’t let the little things go. I’m like, ‘I’m gonna get this guy arrested as an example that you can’t do this. And I said, also, in New York, we don’t prosecute people anymore, And one of the reasons I brought crime down is I didn’t ignore stuff like this.”
Andrew Giuliani praised his father as “tough as nails” and revealed that he is doing well after the attack.
The fresh-faced politician claimed: “He’s doing fine. But it’s a sad day when New Yorkers’ greatest crime fighter, ‘America’s Mayor,’ is attacked. I blame the left-wing for encouraging violence. This is crazy.”
Rita Rugova-Johnson, who witnessed the incident, also spoke to local media and she told the outlet: “I was shoulder-to-shoulder with Rudy inside ShopRite. We’re talking, and all of a sudden, an employee came out of nowhere and open-handedly slapped him in the back and said, ‘Hey, what’s up scumbag? [The attacker] was on duty at the time. The cops arrested him.”
Rudy Giuliani’s alleged attacker, Daniel Gill, was released on Sunday and the charges were downgraded to third-degree assault, third-degree menacing, and second-degree harassment.
Andrew Giuliani is seeking the Republican nomination for New York’s governor.
