Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday touted her advice to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as helping lead to his surprisingly cordial meeting with President Trump — and possibly protecting the Big Apple from federal intervention.

Hochul revealed she talked to Mamdani before Friday’s high-stakes White House sitdown and told him he needed to ensure Trump had “confidence” in his leadership to keep the president from sending the National Guard into New York City.

“He has already hit the ground running,” she said of Mamdani. “And I have the confidence in him that I wanted the president to have as well: that we don’t need any interventions.”

The face-to-face between Mamdani and Trump led to a surreal spectacle in the Oval Office, in which a clearly impressed president lauded the Democratic socialist ups

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