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Mayor Klutz — what’s behind Mamdani’s long string of fumbles, failures and fiascos

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Take a step back and recognize that City Hall’s embarrassing disconnect on the supposed NYPD detail to protect first lady Rama Duwaji on a personal trip to Syria and Lebanon was just the latest utterly needless flub from Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his team.

From stunning incompetence to toxic policies, this is the result of hiring a 30-something nepo baby to run New York City as his first real job.

For an alleged master of messaging who spends hours each day filming TikTok-style videos for his Maoist “Office of Mass Engagement,” Mamdani’s actual communications have been a disaster.

Mistakenly announcing that city cops would guard the mayor’s wife as she visited family on her personal trip to high-risk Mideast nations was an amateur flub, when actual Mayor Bill de Blasio had to pay back the city for bringing his NYPD detail along on his presidential campaign travel.

Particularly after Mamdani had raged that Duwaji is a private person, not........

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