Jeff Bezos has a message for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani: The villain strategy won’t work.
In an interview with CNBC‘s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday, the Amazon founder weighed in on the viral Tax Day video that Mamdani filmed outside Citadel CEO Ken Griffin’s $238 million Manhattan penthouse—a stunt designed to build public support for a proposed pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes. Bezos said the move reflected a time-honored but ultimately hollow political tactic.
“When you don’t know how to solve a problem, create a villain, blame them,” Bezos told Sorkin on Squawk Box. “But it won’t solve the problem. The only thing that will solve the problem is skill.”…