Rudy Giuliani’s accident in New Hampshire has been confirmed by the NH State Police, who promptly released a statement confirming the former New York City mayor and the two other people involved in the accident all suffered “non-life-threatening injuries” — but the internet simply can’t get over how bizarre the story was first revealed to the public.
Giuliani’s reputation has recently taken a dive. He was once destined to go down in history as one of the most respected New York City mayors. But unlike Zohran Mamdani’s rise to public consciousness — Giuliani’s popularity wasn’t just about his policies but about how he responded to the tragedy that was 9/11. In the years since, he has grown into a sort of outcast in American politics after his stint as Donald Trump’s lawyer and that one time he got tricked by Sacha Baron Cohen into what seemed like indecent exposure to a fake TV journalist.
This is all oddly relevant because the accident’s response quickly evolved into analyzing exactly what Giuliani’s head of security, Michael Ragusa, was talking about in his public statement. It starts off with a seemingly unrelated story about how earlier in the day, before the accident, he was assisting a victim of domestic violence. This prompted mixed reactions on X, where no one quite understood why he thought the domestic violence anecdote belonged in the statement at all.
Franklin Leonard was the first influential figure to openly admit how befuddled he was by the entire thing. Leonard commented, “This is a very odd way to communicate these events.” One user on the platform hypothesized that it was an attempt to paint Giuliani as a “hero.” Another user pointed out that the police report suggests this might just be Giuliani’s attempt to rehabilitate his image back to his pre-Trump era self.
Yes, it is indeed. None of the first half of this is even relevant to a car accident. Truly bizarre. They just love to let everyone know what a hero they are.
— JayCee84 (@FedupMama84) September 1, 2025
So the troopers were there to assist the dv situation & the crash just happened in the vicinity. What a pathetic attempt to rehab Giuliani’s image. pic.twitter.com/kGItg38r1w
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The NH State Police report reveals Giuliani was being driven by Michigan native Theodore Goodman in a Ford Bronco. The two were then hit from behind by 19-year-old Laura Kemp in a Honda HR-V. And this is where the stories start to deviate a little bit.
In Ragusa’s version of events, Giuliani had stopped on Interstate 93 southbound, where the accident occurred, after being flagged down by a woman who was the apparent victim of domestic violence — and Giuliani was supposedly the one who called the police to intervene.
In the NH State Police version, there’s no mention of who actually reported the domestic violence incident. They only reveal they were already onsite when Giuliani’s crash happened while they were attending to the domestic violence issue. According to them, the police were first to render aid. Whether Giuliani was the one who reported the incident now depends on whether you believe the former mayor or not. The internet clearly does not.
This started out as a story of a tragic accident that, thankfully, had no fatalities — but it has evolved into a story about what happens to a public official once they completely lose public trust. After all, this is the same Giuliani who claimed that while he did look like he was trying to undress in front of Cohen’s fake journalist, he was actually just trying to take off his microphone while simultaneously tucking in his shirt.
