Exclusive | Mamdani vows to be at upcoming 25th-anniversary ceremony of 9/11 but skipped 1993 WTC bombing memorial months ago
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to defy 9/11 victims’ families by attending the 25th-anniversary ceremony of the terror attacks at Ground Zero, but he ditched this year’s ceremony for the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.Instead of attending the solemn ceremony on Feb.26 at Ground Zero, he chose to pitch a housing project to President Donald Trump in Washington, DC.Mamdani — who was photographed last year grinning ear-to-ear with a Brooklyn imam who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 — sent one of his deputies to the memorial instead.That day, the socialist mayor met privately with the president to try to convince him to provide more than $21 billion in federal funds for a 12,000-unit affordable housing project at a massive railyard in Queens.Mamdani “blew us off and passed on it because he does not give a s–t,” raged Andrew Colabella, whose 41-year-old cousin John DiGiovanni was one of the six people murdered when radical Islamic terrorists detonated a bomb in an underground parking garage.“The only thing he cares about is his ego and his so-called political future,” added Colabella, a Republican legislator representing Westport, Conn.Colabella and some other family members of the 1993 victims accused Mamdani of blowing off the 33rd annual memorial service because it lacked major media coverage.
The mayor was quick to visit Ground Zero in April to greet King Charles III because plenty of cameras were rolling, they added.Colabella accused the mayor of meeting with Trump on a pie-in-the-sky housing proposal to avoid being booed at Ground Zero over his “longtime association” with individuals who’ve defended Islamic terror, including vile left-wing influencer Hasan Piker, who once said “America deserved” the Sept.11, 2001, terror attacks.Colabella said he’s among the more than 79,000 who’ve signed a surging petition demanding Mamdani skip the v...