Politicians have been described in many unsavory ways, but not since the days when Tammany Hall’s gangster bosses ruled the roost has a major New York official been called “obedient.” 

That is, until now, with a former top aide using that word to describe how easy it was to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to do her bidding.

The image is chilling, as if the governor can be put under the sway of a puppeteer and follows orders. 

The circumstances are even more disturbing, given that the former state aide who described Hochul as “obedient” was allegedly working as a secret agent for Communist China. 

The former aide, Linda Sun, is facing federal charges in Brooklyn.

The incident in question, according to trial evidence, occurred in 2021, when Andrew Cuomo was governor and Hochul was lieutenant governor. 

Secretly directed by her handlers in the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan to get Cuomo to make a Lunar New Year video, Sun responded in writing that Hochul would be easier to get because “she is much more obedient than the governor.”

“The deputy governor listens to me more than the governor does,” Sun said in a text to the consul general and included a smiley face emoji, documents show. 

Hochul did as instructed, and the pandering video is cringe-inducing, but the incident has resonance far beyond the video.

When she became governor, Hochul promoted Sun to deputy chief of staff, with a salary of about $145,000. 

The Chinese Consulate’s propaganda campaign also included efforts to meddle in city and state elections.

A New York Times investigation found that several successful efforts........

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