Far-left Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday stood by embattled silver-spoon socialist Gustavo Gordillo — even as the radical honcho’s bogus working-class claims continued to unravel.
Hizzoner scoffed at Gustavo’s critics such as prominent city civil-rights leader Kevin McCall and dug his heels in over the dodgy, 38-year-old, rich-kid, co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
“The ‘D’ in DSA stands for Democratic, and I leave it to the organization and its own voting of who it is electing as its leaders,” Mamdani said when asked by The Post whether his Yale University-grad comrade should resign after misleading the media over his $1.5 million home and his union membership.
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