New York Post

Blasting ‘anarchist’ li$t

- Steven Nelson, Brigitte Hogan and Nolan Hicks

New York’s Democratic leaders Monday trashed President Trump after the Justice Department placed the Big Apple on a list of “anarchist jurisdicti­ons” eligible to lose federal funds — with Mayor de Blasio claiming the decision was “all about race.”

Responding to the news that New York has been designated an “anarchist jurisdicti­on” by the DOJ, as first reported by The Post, de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo said the threat to yank funds from New York was a shameless move by Trump to boost his re-election campaign, rather than a sincere effort to discourage cities from tolerating violent protests.

“It’s all about race and it’s all about attempts to divide and to enthrall his base by attacking ‘the other,’ ” de Blasio said.

“This is what this guy does — it’s the only trick in his book.”

Cuomo told reporters the move was “a continuati­on of [Trump’s] political theme” of being a “lawand-order candidate.”

“When you try to manipulate and distort government agencies to play politics, which is what the Trump administra­tion has done from Day One. It’s what the SALT taxes were — just taking from Democratic states to give to Republican­s,” Cuomo said of the cap on of state and local taxes as an itemized deduction. “It’s what the Trusted Traveler program was . . . This is more of the same.”

New York City made the list in part because the City Council approved a budget in July that trimmed or transferre­d to other department­s nearly $1 billion from the NYPD.

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