As surveys show that support for New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, has been dwindling for months — many believe Adams will rue the day he decided to wage a war of words and attack former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Surveys show that more than 70% of New Yorkers believe Adams is not leading the city in the right direction. Adams likely lost more supporters when he verbally attacked “America’s mayor” on Tuesday morning, charging that Giuliani’s Sunday attack was fabricated and exaggerated.
According to the New York Post, Adams said Rudy Giuliani “should be investigated for filing a false police report” regarding an “alleged assault at a Staten Island supermarket.”
RTM previously reported that the assault was documented on video by witnesses who spoke to the police and by statements from the assailant.
Nevertheless, at a press conference in East Harlem, the Post reports that Adams said: “I looked at the video and someone needs to remind former Mayor Giuliani that falsely reporting a crime is a crime.”
The unexpected assault on his character prompted some coarse talk from the New York toughened Giuliani, who suggested Adams “go and” do something with himself that is not physically possible.
The recent feud between current and former mayors began when Adams rebuked Giuliani for his “creativity and sensationalism” in reporting to the police that he could have been “killed” by the “pat on the back” he received while campaigning on Sunday for his son Andrew, a GOP gubernatorial candidate.
Adams dismissed the gravity of the assault on Giuliani, saying:
“And from what he stated about being punched in the head, felt like a bullet — from what he stated, there was a lot of creativity and I think the district attorney, he has the wrong person that he’s investigating.”
Adams added:
“When you look at the video the guy basically walked by and patted him on the back. I don’t know if he said congratulations, I don’t know what he said to him. But it was clear that he was not punched in the head. It was clear that it didn’t feel like a bullet. It was clear that he wasn’t about to fall to the ground.”
Giuliani, 78, took issue with Adam’s statements. “Tell Adams to go f–k himself,” Giuliani reportedly told the Post Tuesday. “What a …scumbag.”
Giuliani added:
“Eric Adams doesn’t know what he’s… talking about. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I didn’t file the complaint. His police department filed the report. The police department did an investigation. The police interviewed witnesses.”
“It was a very, very heavy shot. He could have easily hit me, knocked me to the ground and killed me. He’s lucky he didn’t knock me down. Falling is extremely dangerous for an elderly person.”
“Let [Adams] talk to his police department. He probably can’t do that. The cops probably won’t talk to him. They don’t trust him. He must’ve been a bad cop.”
Previously, RTM reported that Giuliani was in New York to support his son in his “bid to secure the Republican nomination for New York state governor in a contest against Long Island State Representative Lee Zeldin.”
Giuliani reported that “he was at a store on Veteran’s Road greeting supporters when suddenly he was hit from behind.”
Surveillance video obtained by the New York Post confirms the incident.
According to the New York Post, Giuliani said:
“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.”
Elaborating, Giuliani recounted: “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…scumbag…’”
Gill, 39, was charged with second-degree assault. His charges, however, were downgraded to third-degree assault, third-degree menacing and second-degree harassment.
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