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Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Thursday that Democrats lacked a clear message during the 2024 campaign cycle, leading in part to their defeat in the race for the White House. In an interview on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” the progressive pushed back on the suggestion that the Democratic Party’s embrace of liberal policy positions lost them the election. “I think what happened is the Democratic Party lost touch with some of the things that … the progressive movement was saying that people cared about,” de Blasio said when asked “how badly” he thinks Democrats...

Former New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reports” that the Trump administration’s planned mass deportations were “just not American.” De Blasio said, “I want to note that, for example, the unaccompanied minors. I went to Tornillo, Texas, and saw one of those detention facilities for those kids. Americans were outraged. It doesn’t fit our values to see families separated under any circumstance. Americans believe in due process. Americans do not like the notion of the knock at the door and government authorities taking people away.” He continued, “So I think what’s happened is...

In a startling revelation, a recent report found that former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, oversaw nearly $900 million in taxpayer funds without recording how the money was spent. The funds were allocated primarily through the former First Lady's "ThriveNYC" mental health initiative— a program launched to address the city's mental health and homelessness crisis. However, audits and investigations into the program revealed a lack of transparency, with many expenditures unaccounted for and little oversight into how the money was being spent. The revelations came during a city council meeting where legislators noted the program’s...

Former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio called on his party to "be more honest" after Americans felt "betrayed" over the Democratic Party keeping quiet on President Biden’s decline. De Blasio joined a panel on CNN’s "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" to offer more commentary on what was behind Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s resounding losses in the 2024 election. He argued part of the problem was Harris being unwilling to separate herself from Biden, as well as the Democratic Party’s hesitation to criticize Biden until after he dropped out of the race. "Let‘s be...

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has warned that 'people will die' if 'dangerous' anti-vaccine campaigner and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leads America's top health agency. Donald Trump tapped Kennedy, a scion of the famous political family who is popularly known as RFK Jr, to be his health secretary Thursday night, with the pair vowing to work to 'Make America Healthy Again.' Kennedy, 70, has promised to work to end chronic disease, clean up corruption and provide Americans with the data they need to make informed medical decisions.

The architect of New York City's coronavirus lockdowns admitted to breaking his own rules to attend drug-fueled sex parties in an undercover sting. Former Covid czar Dr Jay Varma was caught on camera talking about how he got high and went to underground raves that were 'not Covid-friendly' at the height of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. He also detailed how he snuck around to participate in 'deviant sexual' gatherings, hosted sex parties at his home and rented a hotel with friends where they would get 'naked' and take 'molly,' a street name for MDMA or ecstasy.

Here’s the newest example of how New York City is in favor of violent crime. In Manhattan, a 30-year-old man named Jean Carlos Zarzuela punched a 54-year-old woman so hard that he broke her nose.Zarzuela was arrested for that, but Manhattan Judge Laurie Peterson released him without bail.Four days after Judge Peterson released Zarzuela without bail, he punched a 9-year-old girl in the head.This is yet even more proof that New York City is in favor of violent crime.

The recent surge in subway violence came in the months after the number of cops underground plummeted to levels not seen in years, according to data reviewed by The Post. The analysis also shows crime fell by as much as 8% during past upticks in police patrols on the subways. The examination of policing power in the subways comes as the NYPD has again boosted its presence in the system by 1,000 officers per day following three homicides underground in the span of a month. It marked the worst outbreak of violence in the system since October 2022, when the...

The Empire State is not expected to recover all the jobs lost from the COVID pandemic until at least late 2026, according to a new analysis. The report by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, which cited a forecast by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office, expressed concern about New York’s slow jobs recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the rest of the country. “State employment growth is still forecasted to lag that of the nation,” DiNapoli’s analysis of Hochul’s executive budget plan said. “While the nation’s employment exceeds its pre-pandemic levels, New York has still not recovered all the jobs that were...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa has claimed that then-Mayor Bill de Blasio deliberately failed to deploy enough cops during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in New York City because he feared violent clashes between the NYPD and protesters would embarrass him. Like many other issues, how to handle the protests that erupted over the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota triggered disagreements between Cuomo and de Blasio, recounts DeRosa in her forthcoming memoir, “What’s Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Crisis.” “We learned that a high-ranking member of the police...

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City must be on alert to thwart terrorism in the Big Apple following Hamas’ surprise invasion of Israel. “Of course we stand with the people of Israel,” de Blasio said Sunday on WABC 770 AM’s “The Cats Roundtable” with host John Catsimatidis Sunday. “We’ve got to condemn [terrorism] wholeheartedly the second you see it. New Yorkers have felt terrorism. We know exactly what terrorism is, in ways that a lot of other people have not experienced,” the former mayor said, alluding to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. He said Hamas’ slaughter...

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio has snatched up an apartment on the Upper West Side – not far from the rooftop bar where he was recently spotted canoodling with a mystery woman. The newly single 62-year-old Democrat signed a one-year lease for a one-bedroom pad near Columbus Circle because he “wanted to try something new,” a source told NY1. De Blasio insisted the change of scenery will be a “temporary thing,” according to the source — and that he’ll split his time between his new Manhattan digs and his longtime Park Slope, Brooklyn home that he shares with wife Chirlane...

Bill De Blasio was spotted leaving his New York townhouse in an Uber first thing on Wednesday - shortly after announcing his split from his lesbian wife Chirlane McCray in a toe-curling interview. The former New York City Mayor, 62, also tweeted to describe their separation as a 'love story' - while 68-year-old McCray emerged from the home they will continue to share to say the split was 'the right decision for us'. In a fawning New York Times interview, the couple cited myriad reasons for the split - from the strain of de Blasio overseeing America's biggest city during...

Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and his lesbian wife have announced their separation after almost 30 years of marriage in a deeply personal interview. De Blasio, 62, and Chirlane McCray, 68, divulged a variety of causes for their split - from Covid to the pressure of her previously declared sexuality - and said they are still going to live together in Brooklyn while seeing other people. In a notably gentle interview with the New York Times, where they were asked to disclose details of their non-divorce, de Blasio also spoke of his recent decision to start dyeing his hair....

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Election Commission has imposed a $53,100 fine on three committees associated with former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s failed bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The commission said the De Blasio 2020 campaign committee accepted improper contributions from two political action committees de Blasio and others had set up, Fairness PAC and NY Fairness PAC, and failed to disclose the donations in campaign filings. The FEC action comes in response to a complaint filed in 2019 by the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center alleging that the campaign had “concocted a shell game”...

People who rioted in New York City during the protests over the death of career criminal George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody have been awarded $6 million in "damages" because some of the NYC police officers who arrested them weren't wearing masks. Bill deBlasio, NYC's mayor at the time of the riots, called the settlement "righteous. The hundreds of people arrested during the riot were needlessly exposed to the deadly covid virus by cops who went into the streets unmasked. While we may never know how many thousands died as a result of this despicable negligence, the survivors...

He’s been gone from office for nearly a year, but ex-mayor Bill de Blasio is still defending his record — and taking heat from critics. This fall, De Blasio started a new role as a visiting teaching fellow at Harvard, focusing on issues like early childhood education and leading through a pandemic. At one of his talks, on Nov. 9, the former mayor was blasted by a male Hispanic student from Queens who ripped his attempt to end magnet school admission exams in 2019, a source told The Post. “I’m a first-generation college student,” the student said during a question...

The Murder Express is running local. Killings in the New York City subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the highest annual levels in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership numbers, as the city grapples with an overall spike in random violence, NYPD data show. Since 1997, the earliest data The Post was able to access, there had never been more than five subway murders in a single year until the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and brought that number up to six for the first time in decades. The next year, murders shot up to eight. So far in...

They’re the Green Goblin Gang — and the furious mom of one of their victims says the fiends were “complete animals,” randomly attacking her daughter on her birthday. Newly released video captured the bizarre group of female robbers wearing full-body, neon green leotards as they punched and tossed around two 19-year-old women on a Times Square subway train about 2 a.m. Sunday. The victims were robbed of a cellphone and handbag, cops said. “She said she was attacked by aliens, and I didn’t know what she was talking about,” the mother of one of the victims told The Post on...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Friday he has started to send buses carrying migrants to New York City in an effort to push responsibility for border crossers to Democratic mayors and U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat. The first bus arrived early on Friday at the city's Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan carrying around 50 migrants. Volunteers were helping to steer people who had no relatives in town to city resources. "Most of them don't have anybody to help. They don't know where to go, so we're taking them to shelters,"...