Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani accused Andrew Cuomo on Friday of trying to appease President Trump in the wake of the Trump Justice Department’s indictment of state Attorney General Tish James.

Mamdani called the ex-governor out for omitting both James’ and Trump’s names in a statement reacting to the charges, saying he played it safe “because his narrow path to City Hall is paved by the very billionaires who put Donald Trump back in the White House.”

“He cannot speak his name lest he has permission already to do so,” Mamdani continued at the lower Manhattan press conference. “If you are unwilling to do so today — if you cannot say Donald Trump’s name today — how will you stand up to him tomorrow?”

James and the former governor have been at odds. Cuomo resigned after

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