A grocery store worker in Staten Island was arrested for
assault after Rudy Giuliani claimed the man violently assaulted him.
But it turns out that video evidence surveillance of the incident
doesn't really show what Rudy Giuliani claims happened.
Now, here's what Giuliani said about the alleged assault on
a conservative radio show, let's watch.
>> All of a sudden I feel a shot on my back like somebody shot me.
I went forward but luckily I didn't fall down.
Lucky I'm a 78 year old in pretty good shape cuz if I wasn't,
I'd have hit the ground and probably cracked my skull.
>> Wow, I mean, that sounds serious.
Rudy Giuliani is an older gentleman.
Okay, I obviously I'm being very generous with the use of the word
gentleman here and also sarcastic, crack his skull.
I mean, I don't wanna promote violence, this is terrible.
In fact, the radio show that he was on had a host who really made
a point to talk about how serious this assault was, okay?
Before Giuliani came in,
he told the audience about the seriousness of the incident.
Let's listen to that.
>> Rudy Giuliani got jumped, got sucker punched and
yet he got hit, he turned around,
he gritted it, he bared with it.
And as we speak right now,
he's leaving a little league game out there in Staten Island.
That's right, he took that blow, it didn't knock him down to the ground and
he just kept moving, just kept moving.
Well, I'm gonna let him explain the details cuz we were able to get
the first exclusive interview right after he got cold cock sucker punched
by this menace to society.
>> Rudy Giuliani, he got jumped, he got sucker punched.
I don't wanna put words in his mouth, okay?
I don't wanna put words in his mouth but that's what happened.
He got clocked, he got clocked.
Let me just say, I don't agree with this guy on pretty much anything.
I'm talking about the conservative host here, but I do enjoy his delivery.
In fact, this is my favorite part about what he had to say.
>> Rudy Giuliani got jumped, got sucker punched.
>> Got sucker punched, a little spittle situation happening there.
All right, well we've been kinda primed to see this surveillance video and
think, man, it's probably really bad.
Rudy Giuliani almost broke his skull, he almost died.
Sounds like he almost died.
All right, let's take a look at the surveillance.
Let's keep my mic up since there's no sound.
That's it, what you just saw, it already happened.
That was it, that was it, let's play it again.
He got clocked.
Rudy Giuliani got clocked.
He got sucker punched.
The guy looks like did a quick slap on his back and
apparently according to Rudy Giuliani, although take anything he has to
say with a grain of salt because he clearly exaggerated the situation.
He claims that the guy said something that was very mean,
very mean because he was upset about the reversal of Roe.
Meaning that women's autonomy, their decision, their ability to make decisions
about their own bodies have been stripped away from them, something
that Rudy Giuliani and conservatives have been fighting for, right?
He did not get punched, he did not get sucker punched, but
it doesn't matter because it turns out that he called for
this guy, this grocery store worker in Staten Island to get arrested.
And sure enough, he did get arrested.
ShopRite employee, a 39 year old Staten Island resident
by the name of Daniel Gill has been arrested and
charged with assault of someone 65 or older, a felony by the way.
The video has no sound, but the NYPD spokesman said, Gill asked,
what's up scumbag when he approached Giuliani,
which is there something wrong with calling him a scumbag?
Isn't that what he is?
And don't we have protections to say what we want to say?
Now, he's being charged with assault, not saying something mean to Giuliani.
But Giuliani, I mean,
being called a scumbag is like the most violent thing ever.
Someone slapping him on the back is the equivalent of like
serious assault where he almost broke his skull, it's unbelievable.
Look, you hear from right wingers,
including people like Tucker Carlson argue that it's the feminist
fault that men in America are weak now because of the feminists.
The feminist led to the pacification of men?
You hear that over and over again, maybe these guys were cowards from the jump.
Have you considered that a guy who hyperventilates over what you
just saw in that video.
And look, I personally don't think you should put your hands on anyone in any way
unless it's clear that they're okay with it, right?
So I wouldn't have touched Giuliani at all.
But to argue that that is assault and
that someone should be prosecuted for it is insane.
He got jumped, he got sucker punched except he didn't, except he didn't.
And what's interesting is how Giuliani later scoffed at the police
who asked to see surveillance before arresting the guy.
Let's listen to that.
>> The 123 precinct, do you know that place?
>> Sure.
>> And I told the people there, I want this guy held and I want him arrested.
They said, we have to look at the tape like they didn't trust me.
They looked at the tape and they said, my God, he really hit you very hard.
I have five witnesses including water city worker and the other retired detective.
The city worker said that I was hit so hard it almost knocked her over.
So we got the guy arrested.
>> Okay, there's so much to unpack from that video.
Yeah, the authorities need to see the surveillance.
They need to see evidence before they just arrest someone.
They didn't didn't trust me.
Yeah, Rudy, you're a liar, you're still lying about how the election
was stolen from Donald Trump and how you alleged to have mountains of
evidence proving it even after you lost more than 60 court battles.
You guys lost and
you refuse to accept and you keep lying to the American people about it.
The January six commission during the hearings, we learned that internally,
Rudy Giuliani thought Eastman's plan of installing sham electors was crazy,
was unhinged.
But then on January six during his speech, he promoted it knowing that
it was a BS theory that had absolutely no root in reality.
Yeah, you're a liar.
And even if he wasn't a liar, even if he wasn't known for
being a lunatic liar, yeah, the authorities need to see evidence.
They need to see evidence before they just arrest someone.
You can't just tell cops, I don't like that guy, arrest him.
The fact that this man got arrested the first place, I think is outrageous and
the charges should be dropped cuz again, no one was assaulted.
No one was sucker punched, no one was jumped.
These people are so incredibly fragile.
They want to provide cover for capital rioters who were vicious on January six.
Absolutely vicious and continue to do,
continue to threat Americans with violence, they provided cover for them.
But once they get a little bit of backlash in the flesh,
my God, he got sucker punched.
No, he didn't.
Pacification of men in the Republican party was
apparently already an issue cuz that weakness,
that exaggeration, absolutely pathetic.
If you can't take the heat, how about you shut up and get out of public life.