Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday claimed President Trump will stage a takeover of New York City if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor \u2013 as he also again tried to shift blame for the bail reforms he passed as governor.<\/p>\n
Cuomo, during an event in Harlem near where an innocent woman was fatally shot by a stray bullet<\/a>, cast Mamdani\u2019s policies as \u201cliterally dangerous\u201d for the city\u2019s public safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Trump will wind up being Mayor Trump if Mamdani is elected,\u201d said Cuomo, who is running as an independent in the November election after being bested by Mamdani in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n He argued 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 \u2014 and has threatened to do<\/a> if the Queens assemblyman becomes mayor.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t even think he would wait for Mamdani to be inaugurated,\u201d Cuomo warned. \u201cI think if Mamdani won the election, the next day I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if you saw President\u00a0Trump act.\u201d<\/p>\n Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued that President Trump will stage a federal takeover of New York City if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor. Robert Miller<\/p>\n Mamdani has faced criticism for his public safety policies. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n Trump wouldn\u2019t send the feds into the city if Cuomo was mayor, he argued, claiming \u201cthere would be absolutely no rationale whatsoever\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n But for all of Cuomo\u2019s harping on Mamdani\u2019s public safety stances, the former governor refused to take any blame for the 2019 bail reforms he signed into law \u2014 which critics argue led to a surge in recidivist-based crime on the city\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n Cuomo blamed dastardly state legislators for not giving judges the ability to circumvent the mandate and order suspects they believed to be dangerous held behind bars.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to add in that first law \u2013 judicial discretion on dangerousness. The legislature wouldn\u2019t agree to it at the time,\u201d he said, within minutes of casting himself as a steadfast bulwark against a power-mad Trump.<\/p>\n