Wall Street bigwigs Dimon, Solomon fail to stand up to Mamdanis madness as NYC mayors apology tour flops

Zohran Mamdani’s “apology tour” to quell the business community’s outrage over his bizarre social media posting targeting fellow business leader Ken Griffin didn’t include much apologizing, The Post has learned.In fact, Griffin’s name and Mamdani’s “creepy” stunt — where he stood outside the Citadel chief’s penthouse to brag about taxing the rich — never came up in the confabs Monday with two of the biggest CEOs on Mamdani’s agenda, Jamie Dimon, the chief of mega bank JP Morgan and David Solomon, the CEO of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs.Don’t blame our Marxist mayor for ignoring the obvious — that his social media spot targeting Griffin isn’t just bad policy, since it will drive away the investors the city needs, it’s also dangerous given the recent spate of violence directed at the CEO class by leftists.No, point the finger at Dimon and Solomon for being too timid to even gently remind Mamdani that his rhetoric is making the city increasingly uninhabitable for business — not just theirs but anyone who employs working class people in the five boroughs.Yes, I know both are two of the city’s biggest employers, and you can make the case they have a lot to lose.But they lost so much already, and their years of acquiescence to the loons in city and state government has just made them an increasingly bigger target for taxes, welfare-state schemes and the defund the police policies that put their middle-class employees at risk.And as they say in boxing, they had Mamdani on the ropes.The highly anticipated meetings were set up last month by Mamdani’s staff after the business advocacy group, the Partnership for New York City, explained that his social media spot about Griffin wasn’t sitting well with the people he needs to pay for all those welfare perks he wants to hand out.Mamdani’s leftist policies and Marist proselytizing was forcing many business leaders not committed to moving elsewhere, to start thinking about reloc...

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