Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims.
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Giuliani demands Mamdani skip 9/11 ceremony; mayor confirms he's attending anyway
“You want to know what this is really about? A guy who ran the city on the worst day it ever had can't stand that the job now belongs to somebody else, so he dresses up "I don't like him" as a rule about who's allowed to grieve. Mamdani didn't argue with him — he just confirmed the flight, so to speak, and showed up anyway. That's the whole con: turn a funeral into a guest list you control, and get mad when nobody checks with you.”
“Look, nobody's saying the mayor can't attend, we're saying — okay, some people are saying he shouldn't attend, but that's about respect for the families, not about — did I say "offends him"? That's not spin, that's just a guy with feelings. The point is Mayor Giuliani earned that ceremony, and Mayor Mamdani is a guest at it. Guest. That's the word. I'm sticking with guest.”
The receipts
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani lamented current Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s presence at the Sept. 11 commemoration marking the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, saying the socialist mayor’s attendance would “offend him.” Giuliani, who served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, became the public face of the city’s…
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who later worked as President Trump’s personal lawyer, publicly criticized current Mayor Zohran Mamdani for planning to attend a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero on Friday. “Frankly, whatever he’d like to say, he doesn’t agree that September 11th was an Islamic terrorist attack…
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