NYC Councilwoman Says Mamdani Is Sending ‘A Message To Osama bin Laden’ – Who Is Dead 

New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R) slammed Mayor Zohrani Mamdani on Tuesday, hours after he signed a pair of executive orders regarding the Sept. 11 attacks.

Republicans have expressed outrage at the city’s first Muslim mayor for planning to attend a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the attacks. Attending such ceremonies is standard fare for New York mayors and other city politicians, but a group of 9/11 family members and others has urged Mamdani not to attend.

One of those people is Paladino, who appeared on Tuesday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle. Last week, Mamdani signed a pair of 9/11-related executive orders. The first establishes an annual day of remembrance and service on Sept. 11. The second enhances New York’s agency preparedness to thwart future attacks. During the signing ceremony, he gave one of the pens to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who gave it to Ramzi Kassem, the city’s chief legal counsel. Kassem was an attorney for al-Qaeda operative Ahmed al-Darbi.

“Symbolism,” host Laura Ingraham told Paladino, “it’s important to everyone, but it’s super important in the Islamic world, for Muslims. Symbols matter. Commemorative, it matters to people. But they’re defending his decision to give Ramzi Kassem the pen.”

Ingraham read a statement from the mayor’s office stating that Kassem attended the signing ceremony “to perform his official responsibilities” and that he was “personally invested in these executive orders” as a New Yorker who was in the city on 9/11.

“I am sick to death of all of this,” Paladino said in response. “Sick to death of all of this. And I have tried– we have come out there. Today, I pounded that home so well. And I said, ‘This is enough.'”

Paladino later added:

We need to be able to see through this total, absolute farce that they’re trying to pawn off on New Yorkers and across the country. I’m telling you, this was symbolism. It was cryptic. But it was a message. The same way it’s a message when he goes down to 9/11 – I hate to even say this, Laura – but you know, it’s a message to Osama bin Laden that, look, “We conquered New York.”

That’s how scary all of this really is, to each and every one of us. New Yorkers need to wake up. He won this election not with born-and-bred New Yorkers. He won this election with transplants, ages 18 to 30 years old, making promises he could never keep. So, I am furious.

Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs during a 2011 raid on a safehouse in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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