Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday claimed President Trump will stage a takeover of New York City if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor, as he also again tried to shift blame for the bail reforms he passed as governor.
Cuomo, during an event in Harlem near where an innocent woman was fatally shot by a stray bullet , cast Mamdani’s policies as “literally dangerous” for the city’s public safety.
“President Trump will wind up being Mayor Trump if Mamdani is elected,” said Cuomo, who is running as an independent in the November election after being bested by Mamdani in the Democratic primary. 3
He argued that if the socialist, arguably soft-on-crime, Mamdani is elected, it would give Trump a pretext to send federal troops into the Big Apple, as he did in Washington, DC — and has threaten