Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's team is firing back at Mayor Zohran Mamdani after Mamdani accused past city officials of misleading New Yorkers about toxic air following the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman accused Mamdani of seeking to "score cheap partisan political points" by directing blame toward local officials who rushed to the scene of the attacks while overlooking the radical Islamic terrorists responsible for killing nearly 3,000 people."Now would be a good time to remind Mayor Mamdani that cowardly terrorists acting in the name of Islam are 100 percent responsible for all of the death and destruction on September 11, 2001, and for all of the suffering and illness that have continued since that day," Goodman said in a statement to Fox News Digital.MAMDANI FACES GROWING 9/11 BACKLASH AS OLD POST RESURFACES AHEAD OF GROUND ZERO CEREMONY: 'IS THIS REAL?'Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani attends the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City in Sept.
2024.(Michael M.
Santiago/Getty Images)The records released by Mamdani’s administration include more than 170,000 pages documenting the city’s response to the Sept.11 attacks and their aftermath.
The initial release includes 68 boxes of records from the Department of Environmental Protection that were not located until 2025, and records related to 7 World Trade Center.The records include documents from Giuliani’s administration, including a memo sent to Deputy Mayor Robert Harding that warned the city faced potentially multimillion-dollar lawsuits from New Yorkers who claimed health advisories failed to protect them from toxic exposure and that the sites were inadequately cleaned up.MAMDANI UNDER FIRE AFTER SYMBOLIC 9/11 PEN GOES TO FORMER AL QAEDA DEFENSE LAWYERAt a news conference announcing the release, Mamdani said the documents showed that officials across multiple administrations had information about hazardo...