‘America’s mayor’ is hospitalized in critical condition as tributes and well-wishes roll in



On Sunday evening, a spokesman for "America’s Mayor" Rudy Giuliani shared the news that the 81-year-old former New York City mayor is in critical condition in a Florida hospital.

“Giuliani is currently in the hospital,” spokesman Ted Goodman wrote on X, “where he remains in critical but stable condition. 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.”

‘I pray he pulls through this. The world needs more of him.’

Goodman added, “We do ask that you join us in prayer for America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”

Almost immediately after the news broke, well-wishes and tributes started pouring in.

“Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized,” wrote President Donald Trump on Truth Social. “What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”

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The president isn’t the only one offering well-wishes.

Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, a New York City native who served four years as a police officer with the New York Police Department, wrote on X, “Mayor Rudy Giuliani was the most transformative figure in the history of NY City politics.”

“He pulled off an economic and public safety miracle in a relatively short amount of time, and the city rose from the dead. I worked for the NYPD during the end of his second term. It was the honor of a lifetime,” Bongino continued. “I pray he pulls through this. The world needs more of him.”

Another former mayor of New York, Eric Adams, wrote on X that Giuliani “devoted his life to this city, from his days as a federal prosecutor to leading New York through 9/11. He was there when we needed him most.”

Adams then shared that he would be praying for Giuliani.

There have been no further updates from Giuliani’s team on the reasons for the hospitalization or the prognosis as of Monday morning.

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Glenn Beck: Think NYC is ruined now? Wait until you hear about Mamdani’s newest proposal.



On April 28, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), speaking at a joint press conference with Council Speaker Julie Menin, declared a "budget crisis of a historic magnitude" larger than any “since the Great Recession,” blaming inherited mismanagement and a structural imbalance with the state.

"We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need new revenue. And we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state. … That is the only way to meet our legal obligation to pass a balanced budget and to do so without imposing a financial burden onto the backs of working people,” he stated.

“When a politician says, ‘We need new revenue,’ it's not like when you're working at the S&P, man,” scoffs Glenn Beck. “What that means is we're going to tax people.”

But to avoid taking the working class, Mamdani is proposing what he always proposes: another “tax the rich” scheme.

There’s only one problem.

“You've already taxed [the rich] so much, and you've chased them out of your city!” exclaims Glenn.

“It happens every time. Socialism is neat until you run out of somebody else's money. They're running out of money. They're running out of the rich people to destroy. They're coming after you.”

Mamdani has also floated the idea of extending the timeline for the city to fully fund its pension obligations by pushing the deadline out to the 2040s.

“That's illegal!” Glenn laughs.

“Highly educated elites,” like Mamdani, he argues, are always the ones who “[start] these revolutions.”

“It's not the poor people. It's the highly educated elites who are like, ‘You know what? We have to help all these poor people. I mean, I don't want to touch them, but we have to help them,’” Glenn mocks.

The stats prove it.

Glenn’s executive producer, Rikki Ratliff-Fellman, points to a 2025 study from Skeptic Research Center that found that Americans with the highest levels of education (graduate or professional degree) are about twice as likely to support political violence than those with less formal education.

Glenn explains that this alarming trend has emerged because universities shifted from teaching “the Scriptures” to pushing “the philosophies of man.”

“And the philosophies of man are so rotted to the core now because there's no universal truth. There's no universal truth in science. They've made it so science is the exact opposite of faith and of God,” he laments.

“It’s nothing but nonstop arrogance.”

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Illegal alien allegedly sets fire and then watches as people die in agony — but NYC officials don't want ICE to have him



An illegal alien has been accused of intentionally starting a fire in New York City that left four people dead and seven others injured. Though an alleged mass murderer, he may yet dodge federal immigration authorities, thanks to NYC officials.

Around 11:43 a.m. on March 16, Roman Amatitla, a 38-year-old Mexican in the U.S. illegally, allegedly set fire to a three-story building in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens and then, according to the office of Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, stood by and "watched as the building burned."

'An act of mass murder.'

Firefighters discovered three deceased victims in the building: 49-year-old male Chengri Cui, 61-year-old female Shin Chie Ming, and Sihan Yang, a 3-year-old little girl. All three died from smoke inhalation, Katz's office said.

A fourth victim, 64-year-old male Hong Zhao, escaped the fire by jumping out of a window but sustained catastrophic injuries in the fall, including broken bones and head trauma. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to Katz's office.

Seven others — including two firefighters, who endured a terrifying sudden fall to the basement when a stairway collapsed beneath them — were also injured on account of the fire.

The steps that the suspect allegedly took just before setting the fire are bone-chilling. According to the report from Katz, Amatitla:

  • entered and exited the targeted building multiple times that morning,
  • urinated on the outside of it,
  • crossed the street to the gas station and purchased one beer and stole another,
  • asked the gas station clerk for a lighter, but since lighters were available only for purchase, settled for a book of matches, and then
  • returned to the building, lit a piece of paper on fire, and placed the burning paper atop garbage near the stairwell.

As smoke began to billow out onto the street, Amatitla allegedly "stayed in the immediate area and watched the fire consume the building," Katz's office said. The DA characterized the deadly fire as "an act of mass murder."

Authorities believe that the suspect selected the building entirely at random, as he "had no known connection to the building or any of its occupants."

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Amatitla has been charged with eight counts of murder in the second degree, arson in the first degree, two counts of assault in the second degree, and petit larceny.

Despite the severity of his alleged crimes, the Department of Homeland security claims that the NYC Department of Corrections has refused to honor a request to turn him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

"ICE ARREST DETAINER DENIED. On April 14, ICE requested the NYCDOC not release this monster from jail back into American communities. However, because of New York’s sanctuary politicians, the NYCDOC told ICE that they will REFUSE to cooperate," the DHS tweeted Friday afternoon along with an image of what appears to be the detainer request.

"This monster set fire to a building and watched as innocent people, including a three-year-old, burned to death. New York City sanctuary politicians REFUSE to cooperate with ICE and are choosing to RELEASE this MURDERER onto New York streets," DHS acting assistant secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

In a response to Blaze News, the DA's office sidestepped questions about the city's cooperation with federal authorities and said only that "the defendant is remanded and is due back in court on May 12."

An NYCDOC spokesperson told Blaze News: "The DOC processes ICE detainers consistent with local law, which defines the extent of our cooperation with federal immigration authorities."

A source familiar with the matter indicated that the NYCDOC notifies ICE about a defendant's possible release only if certain ICE warrants have been issued or the defendant has been convicted of a serious and/or violent crime within the last five years.

The DHS and the respective offices of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) did not respond to a request for comment.

As of Monday morning, Amatitla remains in custody, NYCDOC records confirm. The jail records also note that an immigration detainer has been lodged against him.

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WATCH: Glenn Beck ruthlessly mocks Kathy Hochul for begging ex-New Yorkers to return and fund her social programs



As the state of New York continues to experience a mass exodus of its richest denizens, Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is getting desperate.

On March 11, during a Politico New York Agenda: Albany Summit, Hochul essentially admitted that the state is toast without the rich to sustain its costly social programs.

“I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state, right? Now there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks. … But maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home, because our tax base has been eroded,” she said.

Glenn Beck was shocked by her brazen treatment of the wealthy as cash cows.

“Do you hear what she's saying there? I need people of high net worth because I need their money to do stuff in the state,” he scoffs.

Glenn says that the reason he doesn’t permanently move to Idaho, where his vacation home is located, is because of a single interaction he had with a Republican politician in the state.

“When I went to speak to some of the Republicans up in the House and the Senate in Idaho … a Republican came up to me and said … ‘We hope you [move here], because we want to add you to the tax base,”’ he recounts. “And I said, ‘You know what? You've guaranteed that I will never move to Idaho.”’

Similarly, ex-New Yorkers have zero incentive to return to the state. “If you live in the city, you're already taking an additional 12%, plus the state gets their [cut] as well, plus the federal government,” says Glenn, “so, you know, if you're making good money, you get to keep, like, I don't know, 40% of it.”

“Who doesn't want to live like that?” he asks sarcastically.

Glenn speculates that Hochul’s desperate pleading won’t produce the results she desires and neither will her proposal to implement an annual tax surcharge on luxury second homes in New York City that are valued at $5 million or more.

Announced on April 15, the new surcharge, which would be on top of regular property taxes, is designed to make ultra-wealthy non-residents who do not pay city or state income taxes "contribute their fair share" to city services so that New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) can close the city’s budget gap.

The choice is simple, says Glenn: “Pay none of that in Texas or Florida or Tennessee," or “go back [to New York] and pay all of that and then pay an extra if you have something that [Kathy Hochul] thinks is too much.”

“I'm so tempted to go back to New York right now. … I'm like, I don't know, should I live in Florida or should I maybe go back to New York City and help them build that supermarket?” he mocks.

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Mamdani claims NYC is broke as his office reportedly plans to blow $10 million to hire woke activists



New York City's democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is reportedly preparing to hire a slew of additional staffers who could cost taxpayers $10 million, after previously claiming the city was facing a critical budget deficit.

The New York Post reported Wednesday that Mamdani plans to hire at least 79 more workers to support his "pet projects."

'Taxpayers who are already struggling should not be bankrolling useless woke jobs for socialists who can't get real jobs in the real world.'

One of those positions includes a senior adviser for enforcement in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice. This individual would be responsible for "establishing policy vision and direction related to Enforcement" and is expected to "manage and coordinate across the assigned agencies, offices, and boards." The job posting describes the department as advancing "policies that promote a more equitable and vibrant New York City." The candidate could earn up to $200,000 annually.

Mamdani is also seeking to hire two temporary World Cup managers to help "lead the planning and delivery of inclusive, community-based public programming." The salaries listed for both positions, a director of NYC World Cup Activations and a project manager for NYC World Cup programming, are over $100,000.

Additionally, the mayor's office is seeking an adviser for legislative advocacy, with a salary of up to $155,000.

Mamdani has pledged to work toward rolling out so-called free universal child care to New York City parents. The city is currently hiring a senior project manager who could earn up to $150,000 a year to lead that initiative.

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A senior adviser for fast and free buses, who could earn $180,000 a year, will have "latitude to exercise a wide degree of authority" for the "coordination, implementation, and successful completion of any projects related to the Fast and Free Buses."

Last month, the Post reported that Mamdani's Office of Mass Engagement was seeking to fill over a dozen positions the news outlet described as "catered to activists." Those positions would reportedly cost taxpayers approximately $2 million.

The Post estimated that if Mamdani's office filled all positions, the city's payroll would increase by 20% compared to the former Mayor Eric Adams' administration.

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"At best, he's hypocritically spending money we don't have on his supporters," a Democratic operative told the Post. "At worst, he is breaking the law by using taxpayer dollars for political benefit."

"City Hall now needs to be super clear about why these hires are needed and how they're chosen," the individual added.

A second Democratic insider told the Post, "Someone should remind the mayor that the city's budget is not like his daddy's credit card."

"Taxpayers who are already struggling should not be bankrolling useless woke jobs for socialists who can't get real jobs in the real world," the second operative said.

Mamdani previously claimed the city faced a $12 billion budget deficit after Adams left office. He has since stated that the deficit has been reduced to $5.4 billion. Adams has denied Mamdani's claims, insisting that he left over $8 billion in reserves.

Mamdani's office did not respond to a request for comment.

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Socialist Mamdani rolls out costly ‘free’ child care program to NYC workers — after crying financial crisis



New York City's democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, announced a free child care program for city workers after previously claiming the city faces a $12 billion budget deficit. His goal is to provide universal child care to all New York City residents, and the program is being implemented in phases.

Mamdani held a press conference on Monday to unveil NYC's first free, on-site child care pilot program, which will serve year-round approximately 40 children ages 6 weeks to 3 years.

'When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap.'

The program will begin in the fall after the city completes its $10 million renovation at the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building to create a 4,000-square-foot child care facility. The building currently houses over 2,000 employees.

The mayor's office claims the program will put "upwards of $20,000 a year back in the pockets of working families."

"Change begins at home. As we deliver universal child care to New Yorkers, that work must include the public servants who keep this city running," Mamdani stated. "We are bringing year-round, no-cost child care right here to Lower Manhattan — not just saving families money, but giving them back hours of their time. No parent should have to spend hours commuting just to ensure their child is safe and cared for."

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Mamdani's campaign has estimated that the mayor's universal child care program will cost $6 billion annually.

Shortly after being inaugurated early this year, Mamdani claimed that New York City was "facing a serious fiscal crisis."

"There is a massive fiscal deficit in our city's budget to the tune of at least $12 billion," he stated in January.

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Mamdani blamed former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for the city's alleged budget crisis. Adams has consistently denied leaving a deficit in the city's budget, insisting instead that he left over $8 billion in reserves.

Mamdani provided an update on the city's budget in February, stating, "When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap. Our aggressive savings plan, daily incorporation of updated revenue and bonus estimates, and our deployment of in-year reserves in tandem with more than a billion dollars in additional aid from Governor [Kathy] Hochul, have lowered that deficit from an initial $12 billion to $5.4 billion. While considerably less, it is still a significant chasm."

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‘Compelled and coerced’: Michael Cohen's allegations about anti-Trump testimony has Letitia James on the hot seat



President Donald Trump’s lawyers are demanding the release of all communications between Michael Cohen and New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office after Cohen claims he was “compelled and coerced” to testify against Trump.

Cohen, Trump's former attorney who testified against the president twice, published an article on his Substack in mid-January titled "When Politics Blind Justice." In this piece, Cohen described how government lawyers made him the "key witness" in two cases against Trump.

'In sum, the NYAG is blocking any discovery into, and possibly even preservation of, evidence of the "pressured and coerced" testimony that it used to convince the trial court to enter a wrongful judgment against Defendants.'

"From the time I first began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA's Office and the New York Attorney General's Office in connection with their investigations of President Trump, and through the trials themselves, I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government's desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump," Cohen wrote.

He stated that prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office first approached him in 2019. At that time, Cohen was serving a three-year prison sentence, and he "wanted to do whatever" he could to return home to his family and resume his life. Cohen acknowledged that one of the first questions he posed to prosecutors was how he would benefit from cooperating with them.

He was released in September 2020 and permitted to serve out the remainder of his sentence in home confinement.

"After my release, I continued to meet with prosecutors and hoped that, in exchange for my cooperation, my home confinement and later my supervised release sentence would be shortened," Cohen wrote. "During my time with prosecutors, both in preparation for and during the trials, it was clear they were interested only in testimony from me that would enable them to convict President Trump."

He claimed that prosecutors asked "inappropriate leading questions to elicit answers that supported their narrative."

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Cohen described a similar experience with Attorney General Letitia James' civil case against Trump.

"Letitia James made it publicly known during her 2018 campaign for attorney general that, if elected, she would go after President Trump," Cohen continued. "Her office made clear that the testimony they wanted from me was testimony that would help them do just that. Again, I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking."

He accused James and Bragg of sharing "the same playbook" and sacrificing their credibility by blurring "the line between justice and politics."

"You may reasonably ask why I am speaking out now. The answer is simple. I have witnessed firsthand the damage done when prosecutors pick their target first and then seek evidence to fit a predetermined narrative," Cohen added.

A mid-level appeals court in August threw out James' $454 million penalty against Trump, which grew to $500 million with interest. James appealed that decision in September.

In Bragg's case, Trump was convicted on all 34 felony counts in 2024. However, he received an unconditional discharge, meaning that while the convictions stand, he did not face any punishment. Trump has since filed an appeal to have those convictions removed from his record.

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On Wednesday, Trump's attorneys sent a demand letter to James' office, requesting all records of communications with Cohen, the New York Post reported. It is unclear whether a similar request was made to Bragg's office.

Trump's attorneys argued that Cohen's communications with James' prosecutors "would have been vital for Defendants to use in crossexamining" him during the trial, according to the news outlet. They claimed that her office "never produced any of the Cohen Records concerning its meetings with Cohen about President Trump and his businesses, despite Defendants' documented demands that the NYAG do so."

"In emails and a meet-and-confer, the NYAG has taken the untenable position that (i) the NYAG 'doesn't know' whether such Cohen Records exist (i.e., it has no idea whether it has records of its communications with its key witness); (ii) the NYAG will not even take a short amount of time to determine whether it possesses any Cohen Records, apparently because, in the NYAG's mistaken view, discovery is over," Trump's attorneys wrote, the Post reported.

They expressed concern that these records may be "automatically deleted and purged," as James has been "unwilling to take any steps to confirm whether such Cohen Records are being preserved."

"In sum, the NYAG is blocking any discovery into, and possibly even preservation of, evidence of the 'pressured and coerced' testimony that it used to convince the trial court to enter a wrongful judgment against Defendants," Trump's lawyers added.

James' and Bragg's offices did not respond to a request for comment.

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CNN's Abby Phillip eats crow after botched reporting on alleged ISIS-inspired bombing attempt in NYC



A CNN news anchor issued an on-air correction after she incorrectly stated that the alleged ISIS-inspired attack outside of New York City’s Gracie Mansion over the weekend targeted Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

“Two Republicans say Muslims don’t belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and the House speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing, really, to condemn those comments,” Phillip stated on Tuesday.

'I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mamdani.'

Phillip was referring to the attack allegedly carried out by Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, who were accused of igniting homemade explosive devices. One of those devices was allegedly thrown at a group of demonstrators protesting Islamic takeover of the city, and the other device was allegedly dropped near police officers. Both devices failed to detonate, and no injuries were reported.

Phillip released a correction in a post on X the following day, writing, “The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers was thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protestors and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani. That wording was inaccurate and I didn’t catch it ahead of time. I apologize for the error.”

A community note was tacked onto Phillip’s post, reading, “The use of the word ‘specifically’ implies Mamdami [sic] may have been a target when this is factually incorrect based on every report and testimony from the two terrorists themselves. Bombs were thrown at protestors and police in order to injure/murder as many civilians as possible.”

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Phillip was also apparently forced to issue an on-air correction for her “mistake” later that day.

“I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mamdani. They were not,” Phillip told CNN viewers.

Phillip took “full responsibility” for failing to catch the error.

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CNN was also criticized this week for publishing a post that appeared to romanticize the terrorist bombing attempt.

“Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather,” the now-deleted post read. “But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home.”

CNN retracted the post, releasing a statement claiming that it “failed to reflect the gravity of the incident.”

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TPUSA journalist shares on-scene chaos after failed NYC bombing at Mamdani’s mansion



Last weekend, an attempted bombing occurred outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City’s Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani (D). During a heated clash between anti-Islam protesters and a group of counterprotesters, two teenagers from Pennsylvania — 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi — allegedly threw two improvised explosive devices toward the crowd.

Fortunately, neither bomb detonated, and no one was injured. Both Balat and Kayumi were arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, using a weapon of mass destruction, transportation of explosive materials, and unlawful possession of destructive devices.

TPUSA Frontlines photojournalist Gabriel Victal was present at the scene when the attack occurred. But the attempted bombing, he says, “wasn't the first instance" of violence.

On this episode of “The John Doyle Show,” Victal gives his first-person account of the incident, sharing on-the-ground observations you won’t hear from mainstream outlets.

“There were other scenarios where basically [the counterprotesters] were beating the crap out of right-wing journalists that they discovered were ‘Zionist.’ They were chasing them out, saying, ‘He's a Zionist. Get out of here,”’ Victal recounts.

It was when he and his partner were editing this footage that the attempted bombing occurred.

“We were editing that footage, and out of nowhere … I see this Muslim individual jump the fence, which he was not supposed to cross, and, you know, a big kind of smoke comes out. … Everybody's looking around, saying, ‘Bomb bomb bomb!’” he tells Doyle, laughing that despite the chaos, his “first instinct as a journalist [was to] start recording.”

One of the people yelling “bomb” was a “transsexual,” who immediately began trying to assist the alleged attacker after he was apprehended, Victal reports.

“Didn't that same transsexual also yell to the guy when he was apprehended something like, ‘Who's your emergency contact?’” asks Doyle.

“Yes. … This happens all the time,” says Victal. “Every time someone on their side, where they perceive to be an ally of theirs, they are always trying to get them out of trouble.”

“Every time we're in Minneapolis, it's the same thing,” he says. “Somebody gets arrested for, you know, punching a police officer or attacking a journalist or whatever it may be, and they're always trying to defend them, have them call [Monarca Rapid Response]” — a community-run rapid response team that mobilizes specifically for sightings of federal immigration enforcement activity.

“Then there are lawyers who will go out of their way to defend these people,” Victal adds.

To hear more details of his firsthand account, watch the full interview above.

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