Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams confirmed Wednesday she deleted a social media publish vital of fellow mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a result of it didn’t mirror what she “wanted to say” and was “misinterpreted.”
However Adams additionally informed reporters at Metropolis Corridor she didn’t remorse something, sending a combined message on the thorny subject.
The publish, put out Tuesday, featured a clip of Mamdani saying in a TV look he agrees the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement company must be “abolished” in mild of President Trump’s use of it as a part of his hardline “mass deportation” efforts.
“A lawless president does not mean we abolish entire agencies and our laws,” the speaker wrote within the since-deleted publish. “I’ve taken on Donald Trump and ICE — and won. People elect us as leaders to solve problems, not pledge allegiance to rigid ideologies.”
Adrienne Adams confirmed Wednesday she deleted this social media publish vital of fellow mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a result of it did not mirror what she “wanted to say” and was “misinterpreted.”
Requested in her Wednesday afternoon press convention why she deleted it, the speaker stated it “did not say what I wanted to say in the way that I wanted to say it” earlier than including she wished it might’ve been extra “Trump-focused.”
“And it was misinterpreted, leave it at that,” stated the speaker, who’s typically seen as a average Democrat.
The speaker’s jab at Mamdani, a democratic socialist, comes as he has persistently polled because the runner-up to Andrew Cuomo, the favourite to win the June 24 Democratic mayoral major.
Amid that dynamic, many different mayoral candidates have kept away from criticizing one another, opting as a substitute to focus their ire on Cuomo and urging voters to place anybody however the ex-governor on their ranked-choice ballots.
Mamdani and Speaker Adams, in actual fact, had been each endorsed by the Working Households Celebration and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a part of their slates of anti-Cuomo candidates. Mamdani even helped the speaker fundraise for her marketing campaign final month.
Requested concerning the speaker’s publish, Andrew Esptein, Mamdani’s spokesman, stated, “Zohran has said it over and over again since launching this campaign: He will only criticize disgraced New York executives past and present.”
Initially Printed: June 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM EDT
