On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reached straight into his predecessor’s paper trail and ripped out nine executive orders! They were all signed by former Mayor Eric Adams after he faced federal corruption charges in September 2024. The move was instantly controversial, as critics called it reckless.
But why are people paying attention to what Zohran Mamdani undid? Well, at an evening press conference in Brooklyn, after his inauguration, Mamdani said everything Adams signed after his indictment was when many New Yorkers “decided that politics held nothing for them.” So, revoking those orders was to draw a line between him and the scandalous Adams.
Adams, on the other hand, was accused of taking bribes and illegal campaign funds from Turkish government operatives, though the Trump Justice Department later dismissed these charges. While Adams has been denying wrongdoing, Zohran Mamdani was still asked what troubled him about the post-indictment orders; he said most of them were:…