New Hampshire State Police said the crash happened on Saturday just before 10 p.m. on Interstate 93 northbound in Manchester.
Authorities said the crash happened across from where troopers were investigating a reported domestic violence incident.
Ragusa said Giuliani was a passenger in a Ford Bronco that was struck from behind by a Honda HRV after he had been flagged down by a woman claiming to be the victim of that same domestic violence incident.
Police said the Honda's driver was a 19-year-old from Concord.
Ragusa said Giuliani called police and stayed with the woman until help arrived.
Giuliani was taken to a local hospital, where Ragusa said he suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured thoracic vertebra.
Ragusa said this was not a targeted attack and is asking the public to respect Giuliani's privacy and recovery.
"Mayor Giuliani is in great spirits following the incident. He is fully alert and conscious, and his medical team is pleased with his progress. The mayor is eager to return to his work and looks forward to getting back to business in just a few days. He and his family are grateful for the outpouring of prayers and support, and he asks everyone to continue respecting his privacy as he focuses on recovery," Ragusa said.
The 19-year-old driver and Giuliani's driver were also injured but are expected to recover.
No charges have been filed, and the crash remains under investigation.
The shakeup has begun. Kristi Noem gets an advisory council. First appointments: Rudy Giuliani and Corey Lewandowski. Wow.
An adversarial one.
It is what he says it is. Stop asking.
Hmmm. Which is it? Somebody get this man on better meds. Point of interest: The war is not done.
Iran has a Supreme Leader. We have a Supreme Idiot.
Thanks, Trump.
Is he simply lying or are people telling him this and he believes it? Is "we" the royal "we"?
UPDATE 05:02 pm:
I don't know how complex it was, but it wasn't secretive. At all.
His alter ego starts rumors. He just repeats them.
The infographics were everywhere in the run-up to Sunday's early-morning strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by American stealth bombers.
They depicted America's bunker-busting bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or GBU-57. It was being dropped from high above the Earth by a B-2 Spirit bomber. Then, the graphics showed it plowing a narrow channel deep beneath the ground — around 60 meters, or 200 feet — and erupting in an illustrated explosion.
Only America had this 30,000-pound weapon. Only America could hit Iran's most deeply buried uranium enrichment site at a place called Fordo. It was buried beneath nearly 90 meters (around 300 feet) of rock, far deeper than Israeli bombs could penetrate.
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According to a still-classified assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the bombs did not "obliterate" Iran's Fordo enrichment site as President Trump initially claimed. Instead, the strike did only limited damage to the advanced centrifuges kept there. At most, the program was set back "a few months," according to a U.S. official who confirmed the assessment's existence to NPR but remained anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
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In the aftermath of Sept. 11, with an eye toward the caves of Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden was believed to be hiding, then-President George W. Bush's administration looked at whether a nuclear weapon could be dropped from a plane into the ground. The Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, as the concept was known, would deliver a powerful shock to underground tunnels and bunkers.
But when scientists got involved, they found there was no way to get a nuclear weapon nearly deep enough to contain the blast and radioactive fallout, and the program was eventually abandoned.
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The so-called penetration equations have existed since the 1960s and depend on a limited number of factors, including the shape of the nose cone, the weight and diameter of the weapon, the speed at which it hits the ground, and — crucially — the type of earth it gets dropped on.
[...]
Changes in the geologic structure can also cause the bomb to change direction even as it moves through the Earth.
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When I ran the calculations, using a key equation from that study, I found out that the GBU-57 could go up to 80 meters (262 feet) underground if it was dropped in silty clay.
In medium-strength rock, things looked far different. The GBU-57 could only go around 7.9 meters (about 25 feet) beneath the earth — far short of the 60 meters claimed by the infographics.
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This may be an important part of the reason the weapon failed to destroy its target — if indeed the bombs did fail as the DIA assessment claims.
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It's clear that American planners were aware of these kinds of challenges. Rather than dispatching one or two GBU-57s, they sent 12 to drop on Fordo. Based on satellite imagery, it looks like they may have been dropped in pairs, with the first weapon fracturing the rock to increase the penetrating depth of the second. The bombers also appeared to target Fordo's ventilation system, a possible weak point.
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But [...] those shockwaves weaken quickly as they move into the rock. Fordo's position directly under the ridge of the mountain probably maximized that protection.
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A major conclusion from the 2005 study was that "it's cheaper and easier for someone to dig deeper than it is to penetrate through that depth."
Trump raised over $200 million right after the 2020 election, which was supposed to go to Rudy and his team to fund the election challenges and audits. But Trump did not pay one penny of Rudy’s $2 million bill. Trump simply kept most of it for the Republican primary in 2023, where he used the money to defeat Desantis and Haley. But the PAC did pay $60,000 to Kim Guilfoyle for a speech and hundreds of thousands of dollars to Melania’s stylist. But not a penny for Rudy.
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Rudy Giuliani had another pretrial hearing today for his contempt case. Trump posted: “SAVE RUDY!!!” to show his support.
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Per Inner City Press, Rudy’s lawyer asked that the January 16 trial be postponed until after Trump’s inauguration because he doesn’t want to miss it if it is still going until Monday. Rudy’s lawyer Cammarata: “The American public wants to know why this can’t go beyond January 20 …” Judge Liman interrupted: “Stop. I follow the law. Don’t tell me about the American people. Or some of them.”
Rudy also claimed that his witness, Monsiegnor Alan Placa, who was accused years ago by multiple boys of sexual molestation but was found not guilty by the Catholic Church to the outrage of the victims, was also not available on the scheduled trial date. Rudy’s lawyer: “Msgr. Placa answers to a higher authority than this court.” Judge Liman: “What do you mean by that?” Lawyer: “He answers to God.” Judge Liman: “Read my jury instructions. They say all witnesses are viewed equally.” Motion denied.
Strangely, that video suddenly switches at the end to some guy with badminton birdies walking around his house. The second part of the documentary is here (the same guy shows up at the end of this video, I have no explanation):
My long-held conviction that Rudy Giuliani cleared the Italian mob out of New York to make way for the Russian mob has just been confirmed.
Start here...
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
In fact, since this is on "X", Elon Musk may make it disappear. I better clip it:
In the later half of the 1980s, U.S. District Attorney Rudy Giuliani… Yeah, that guy…managed to convict the heads of all five of New York City’s Italian mob, and it decimated their criminal empires. But contrary to popular belief, it didn’t end organized crime in the city. /2
Giuliani cleared NYC of the Italian mob, and Brighton Beach’s Russian mafia to move in. This time, organized crime had his support. Just ask Trump. /3
In 1988, Giuliani’s office opened an investigation into Donald Trump for using two Trump Tower apartments for money laundering. They knew Trump was guilty of the crime; a Russian mafia member was caught using Trump Tower for money laundering a couple years before this. /4
But Giulani’s office suddenly dropped the case, and Trump promised to help fund his campaign for New York City mayor in return.
Seven years later, some of their associates would become so powerful that the U.S. government warned the public. /5
In 1995, President Bill Clinton gave an address warning that transnational crime rings – transnational meaning operating in multiple countries – had become so powerful and so organized that they were a threat to national security. /6 http://ndsn.org/dec95/unconf.html
Clinton had a plan to sanction any country that aided transnational organized crime groups – countries like Russia and China – unless those countries adopted strict anti-money-laundering measures.
In the U.S., Donald Trump was aiding organized crime groups. /7
Just four months before Clinton’s speech, the FBI concluded a years-long search for a man named Vyacheslav Ivankov, who they called “the Godfather of the Russian mob in America.”
Guess where they found him hiding… Ready?...
Trump Tower. /8
As Clinton and the FBI worked to tackle the threat of organized crime in the ‘90s, Rudy Giuliani exacerbated it.
In New York City, methadone programs saw an estimated 34,000 Americans begin recovery from drug addiction, get off the streets, and re-enter the workforce. /9
It was later revealed by the FBI that a major donor to Giuliani’s campaign and one of his top advisers worked for Vyacheslov Ivankov, the “Godfather of the mob” that the FBI found living in Trump Tower. /11
Why was Rudy Giuliani, a known collaborator of the Russian mafia, free to make all those trips to Ukraine to look for dirt on Hunter Biden?
Why did he have a license to practice law when he was challenging the 2020 election with bogus lawsuits?
There’s a simple answer… /12
Ten years later, in 2011, FBI Director Robert Mueller tried to pull focus back to organized crime. But, he warned, the mafia had transformed. /13
“These groups may infiltrate our businesses. They may provide logistical support to hostile foreign powers. They may try to manipulate those at the HIGHEST levels of government.” /15
That year, Obama signed an executive order freezing all assets of international criminals.
The FBI warned that the same group that had operated out of Trump Tower and found its way into Rudy Giuliani’s administration was the greatest single threat to U.S. democracy. /16
Mueller put the head of that org, Semion Mogilevich, at the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
In 2016, he was removed from the list, Donald Trump won the election, and those of us paying attention had to ask ourselves: did organized crime just take the White House? /17
It’s no wonder the Republican Party is willing to risk WWIII to let Putin take Ukraine.
They let the only known mafia associate TV star run for president, infiltrate our government, weaken democracy, play cheerleader to dictators, and sabotage their entire party. /18
This is basically the guy we elected in 2016, and they want to re-elect him this year. /19
This isn’t the kind of issue I’m supposed to talk about to run for office, but at least I can say I did something today to better equip voters and shed some light on the deeper, long-term issues impacting our country. /20
This isn’t the kind of issue I’m supposed to talk about to run for office, but at least I can say I did something today to better equip voters and shed some light on the deeper, long-term issues impacting our country. /20
This isn’t the kind of issue I’m supposed to talk about to run for office, but at least I can say I did something today to better equip voters and shed some light on the deeper, long-term issues impacting our country. /20
