{"id":51940,"date":"2025-12-30T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51940"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:25:32","slug":"eric-adams-says-he-plans-to-attend-mamdani-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51940","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams says he plans to attend Mamdani inauguration\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">New York Mayor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/eric-adams\/\"><u>Eric Adams\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D) said he would attend the inauguration of Mayor-Elect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/zohran-mamdani\/\"><u>Zohran Mamdani\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D) despite a disparaging campaign season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sen.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/bernie-sanders\/\"><u>Bernie Sanders\u2002<\/u><\/a>(I-Vt.) is set to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5659696-sanders-swear-in-mamdani-new-york\/\"><u>swear in<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Mamdani, while Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-2\/\"><u>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2002<\/u><\/a>is also set to introduce the newly elected mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe communicated this afternoon, and he made it clear that he would like for me to attend, and I would like to be there to show the smooth, peaceful transition of power. We both know how important that is\u2026I just wanted to make sure that, as I said to him, \u2018I don\u2019t want to do anything to disrupt this important moment in history,\u2019\u201d Adams said on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/catsroundtable.com\/\"><u>Cats Roundtable<\/u><\/a>\u201d radio show hosted by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/john-catsimatidis\/\"><u>John Catsimatidis\u2002<\/u><\/a>on WABC 770 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The New York mayor said Zohran replied by stating, \u201cEric \u2026 It would be good to see you there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Adams\u2019s reputation was fractured earlier this year as he faced<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/4900940-eric-adams-indicted\/\"><u>\u2002federal corruption charges<\/u><\/a>, which the Trump administration abruptly dropped.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mamdani frequently reminded the incumbent mayor of his alleged criminal woes on the campaign trail, which affected Adams\u2019s polling numbers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The two clashed again this month when both men shared an appointment to lead the Fire Department of New York. Mamdani (D) received&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5664394-elon-musk-slams-mamdani-fdny-chief\/\"><u>criticism<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;for selecting a non-firefighter to lead the city\u2019s fire department, while Adams hired a fire commissioner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Adams\u2019s pick will only lead until Jan. 1 when Mamdani takes office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe mayor is free to continue to be the mayor until the end of this year and make decisions as such,\u201d Mamdani said when asked for comment about the dueling appointment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5667398-eric-adams-says-he-plans-to-attend-mamdani-inauguration\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor&nbsp;Eric Adams\u2002(D) said he would attend the inauguration of Mayor-Elect&nbsp;Zohran Mamdani\u2002(D) despite a disparaging campaign season.&nbsp; Sen.&nbsp;Bernie Sanders\u2002(I-Vt.) is set to&nbsp;swear in&nbsp;Mamdani, while Rep.&nbsp;Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2002is also set to introduce the newly elected mayor. \u201cWe communicated this afternoon, and he made it clear that he would like for me to attend, and I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":51946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4542,31439,33675],"class_list":["post-51940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-eric-adams","tag-inauguration","tag-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51943,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940\/revisions\/51943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}