"The controversy follows the weeks of protests led by families of 9/11 victims to bar Mamdani from attending the 25th annual remembrance event."
"A top aide for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is "sick" of critics who claimed that Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were laughing during Friday's solemn 9/11 remembrance ceremony.
"Michael Ragusa, head of Giuliani's security, posted to X on Friday, a few hours after thousands gathered at Ground Zero in New York City to hear the names of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks be read.
"Online outrage was sparked after Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez were briefly spotted exchanging words and laughing during the ceremony. It comes as a mystery 9/11 video appears on YouTube showing the second plane hitting the tower at a new angle.
"However, Ragusa attempted to dispel the rumors, saying, "The videos of @NYCMayor and @AOC laughing are not true. I was standing next to them the whole time. The camera just caught her greeting him hello. Multiple other politicians were laughing and joking behind me. Republicans and Democrats."
"He added in a comment under the post that he was a "lifelong Republican" critical of the pair, but was "sick of this fake news."
"'And for the record, I am a lifelong Republican who has been very critical of these two. I'm just sick of this fake news and people just saying whatever they want," he wrote.". . . More...
"Approximately 9,000 people have died in the years following the attacks from 9/11-related illnesses, including various forms of cancer."
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