New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving to cut third-party consulting contracts as he works to implement his socialist agenda and close a $5.4 billion budget deficit, adopting a cost-cutting approach similar to that of President Donald Trump&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative.
In 2025, as part of Trump&#8217;s effort, DOGE canceled $5.1 billion in consulting services from private contractors, including Deloitte, which had more than <a href="https://fortune.com/2025/04/03/doge-private-contract-crackdown-deloitte-consultancies/">120</a> contracts eliminated. 
Mamdani <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/03/mayor-mamdani-releases-update-on-savings-plan">said</a> the city will eliminate consulting agreements across several agencies, including the Department of Corrections, NYC Aging, the Department of Social Services, and the Office of Technology and Innovation.
&#8220;The city was paying for a lot of work from outside contractors that was costing us far too much,&#8221; he said in a <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2036801229322412378">post</a> on X. &#8220;So we&#8217;re bringing a lot of that work in-house and saving our budget millions.&#8221;
The cuts are expected to save roughly $15 million, a small fraction of the overall deficit.
Mamdani&#8217;s move comes as he continues grappling with the city&#8217;s growing fiscal challenges. He has blamed the current fiscal crisis on financial mismanagement by the Adams administration, which came under fire for consulting spending. The city paid elite consulting firm McKinsey <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-hired-mckinsey-to-assess-the-citys-waste-needs-2024-7">$1.6</a> million to study, design, and plan a new system to keep trash off the sidewalks. Critics mocked the result, saying the firm effectively produced a redesigned trash can under the label “containerization.” 
If Mamdani is unable to secure additional revenue through Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, he has said the city may turn to a last resort: raising property taxes by 9.5% and drawing down its “rainy day fund.”
Mamdani points in part to the roughly <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/12/following-asylum-seeker-odyssey/382850/">$4.3</a> billion cost of housing and supporting more than <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/12/following-asylum-seeker-odyssey/382850/">210,000 migrants</a> who arrived in the city under his predecessor in 2022. He has argued that the situation is worse than the 2008 financial crisis.
That claim is debatable. During the financial crisis, roughly <a href="https://medium.com/@jmk9857/gfc-nyc-a-look-at-the-2008-global-financial-crisis-and-its-impact-on-new-york-city-e594402f3302">55,000</a> New Yorkers lost their jobs, and city deficits averaged about $5 billion, equivalent to about $7.6 billion today. Even as he warns of a &#8220;generational fiscal crisis,&#8221; Mamdani has downplayed recent credit outlook downgrades, calling them premature as negotiations for additional revenue continue.

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New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose hostility to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been well-documented, slammed the Trump administration’s decision to deploy ICE agents to some airports as staffing shortages resulting from a partial government shutdown continue.
Mamdani, a vocal critic of Trump&#8217;s immigration enforcement efforts, took to social media on Tuesday, saying &#8220;ICE doesn’t belong at our airports,&#8221; while simultaneously directing illegal immigrants to a municipal &#8220;legal hotline&#8221; to help them with &#8220;updated guidance.&#8221;
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ICE doesn’t belong at our airports.
Our Office of Immigrant Affairs has updated guidance and you can call their legal hotline at 800-354-0365. <a href="https://t.co/D5LW8FEwyq">https://t.co/D5LW8FEwyq</a>
&mdash; Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/2036538879742820369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
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For Mamdani, the presence of ICE isn&#8217;t about security; it&#8217;s about &#8220;terrorizing&#8221; people. He has called for abolishing ICE, describing it as a &#8220;rogue agency&#8221; with &#8220;no interest in laws,&#8221; apparently oblivious to the irony that his own administration’s &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; posturing is the ultimate defiance of law and order.
In 2025, he stated that ICE was &#8220;a rogue agency, one that has no interest in laws, no interest in order.&#8221;
Appearing on CNN in January, Mamdani lamented the &#8220;heightened sense of anxiety and fear&#8221; felt by New Yorkers, describing the deployment of law enforcement as &#8220;cruel and inhumane.&#8221;
While Mamdani has played the role of the aggrieved activist, border czar Tom Homan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-lays-out-what-americans-can-expect-as-ice-moves-into-airports-monday?utm_source=chatgpt.com">provided</a> the cold, hard dose of reality. With the TSA hobbled by a DHS shutdown, Homan explained that ICE agents — highly trained law enforcement professionals — are stepping in to fill the gaps, guarding exits and managing security lines so the remaining TSA staff can focus on specialized screening. When pressed on whether ICE would still be performing its primary mission while at the airport, Homan was refreshingly blunt: &#8220;We do immigration enforcement at airports all the time &#8230; it’s not going to change.&#8221;
Predictably, the left-wing establishment trotted out John Sandweg, who served as acting ICE director under President Obama. Sandweg <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ice-agents-deploy-to-major-u-s-airports-as-tsa-faces-shutdown-shortages">railed</a> against the move, claiming TSA agents have to be “highly skilled” and undergo extensive training, bloviating, “Although ICE agents have tremendous law enforcement experience, they&#8217;re not &#8212; they can&#8217;t step in and run the X-ray or conduct one of those pat-down searches, or even do the baggage inspection that happens behind the scenes,” he said.
Ultimately, Mamdani’s hostility toward ICE isn&#8217;t about airport efficiency or &#8220;public safety.&#8221; It is about a fundamental rejection of the idea that a nation-state has the right to monitor its own points of entry. While Homan works to keep the lines moving and the borders secure, Mamdani remains committed to a radical ideology that prioritizes political posturing over the safety of the city he supposedly leads.

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Despite New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s repeated attempts to shield his wife from public scrutiny by labeling her a &#8220;private person,&#8221; a series of bombshell revelations has exposed first lady Rama Duwaji as being involved in a radical Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) campaign.
Duwaji, a professional illustrator, is <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/us-news/nyc-first-lady-rama-duwaji-created-artwork-for-dsas-anti-israel-campaign/">under fire</a> for providing the creative backdrop for the DSA’s &#8220;Palestine on the Ballot&#8221; initiative — a project that used Duwaji&#8217;s animations to mobilize voters against candidates backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and promote legislation targeting Jewish charities.
The campaign also highlighted the &#8220;Not on Our Dime Act,&#8221; a controversial bill originally sponsored by Mamdani during his time in the New York State Assembly, which would target certain nonprofits accused of supporting Israeli settlements.
Critics argue Duwaji’s &#8220;behind-the-scenes&#8221; role is a facade.
&#8220;Does anybody believe she’s a private citizen?&#8221; asked Dov Hikind, founder of Americans Against Antisemitism. Hikind characterized the first lady as even more radical than the mayor, calling the couple &#8220;two peas in a pod&#8221; united by &#8220;vile hatred&#8221; for Israel.
The DSA collaboration is only the latest in a mounting pile of evidence regarding Duwaji’s radical leanings. Reports have surfaced showing that she used her social media accounts to endorse extreme, anti-Semitic rhetoric, including content that framed terrorist violence in supportive terms.
Duwaji <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/03/zohran-mamdani-wife-rama-duwaji-social-media-oct-7/">reportedly &#8220;liked&#8221;</a> Instagram posts on the day of the Hamas massacre that featured live-streamed footage of terrorists breaching the Gaza border and commandeering Israel Defense Forces vehicles. One post she approved of hailed the attack as &#8220;breaking the walls of apartheid.&#8221;
More recently, Duwaji <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/nyc-first-lady-liked-post-oct-7-rape-hoax">liked a post</a> that dismissed the documented mass rapes of Israeli women during the October 7 attacks as a &#8220;mass hoax&#8221; fabricated by the media.
Duwaji has also been credited with <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/13/us-news/nyc-first-lady-rama-duwaji-illustrated-essay-for-anti-israel-activist-who-raged-about-jewish-supremacist-vampires/">providing lead graphics</a> for an essay by Susan Abulhawa, an activist who has described Jewish people as &#8220;vampires,&#8221; &#8220;demons,&#8221; and &#8220;rootless ghouls.&#8221;
The revelation of Duwaji’s involvement with the DSA belies Mayor Mamdani’s efforts to present a more moderate front. While Mamdani’s office issued a standard statement condemning Hamas as a terrorist organization, his wife’s digital trail suggests a much darker affinity for the &#8220;resistance&#8221; that her husband publicly critiques.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day event to complain about &#8220;genocide&#8221; in Gaza, arguing that the Irish and Palestinians could relate over their shared histories marked by oppression.
Mamdani joined former Irish President Mary Robinson at a breakfast honoring Irish New Yorkers, and he used his remarks to praise Robinson for her support for Palestinians.
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Mamdani rips &#8216;genocide&#8217; in Palestine during St. Patrick’s Day event <a href="https://t.co/qXhjOmqn2e">https://t.co/qXhjOmqn2e</a> <a href="https://t.co/2jP4BHzOWp">pic.twitter.com/2jP4BHzOWp</a>
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&#8220;I say this as over the past few years, as we’ve witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many. For those who have long cared about universal human rights and the extension of them to Palestinians, silence, however, is nothing new – for Palestinians are so often left to weep alone,&#8221; Mamdani said. &#8220;Yet former President Robinson has never been silent.&#8221;
&#8220;The story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City, is at one time a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination,&#8221; Mamdani said, arguing that it was &#8220;no coincidence&#8221; that the Irish would see their own history reflected in Gaza. &#8220;Who can better understand those who weep than those who have been made to weep for so long?&#8221;
Robinson, who served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997, followed Mamdani&#8217;s lead, and after saying that St. Patrick&#8217;s Day was a time to celebrate Irish culture and traditions, it was also a time to remember all those who may yet be &#8220;living under the shadow of war and suffering.&#8221;
&#8220;For many Irish people, these realities resonate deeply, as the mayor has said. Our own history holds memories of famine, exile and conflict. Perhaps because of that, many recognize echoes of Ireland’s past and the suffering of others today and the pain of displacement and the enduring human longing for dignity, justice, and self-determination,&#8221; she said.
Mamdani referenced Irish support for a Palestinian state in his official message to New Yorkers as well.
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Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, New York. <a href="https://t.co/DPCGPlFbE2">pic.twitter.com/DPCGPlFbE2</a>
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/2033925083853385985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Moody’s downgraded New York City&#8217;s financial outlook from &#8220;stable&#8221; to &#8220;negative&#8221; on Wednesday, citing a projected $5.4 billion budget deficit. 
The deficit was unveiled by Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a preliminary budget hearing in February. Mamdani has proposed increasing the city’s budget from $115 billion under his predecessor to $127 billion for the upcoming fiscal year. 
A spokesperson for Mamdani said Moody&#8217;s action is <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/moody-downgrades-nyc-financial-outlook-202000768.html">premature</a>, noting that state lawmakers are considering roughly $5 billion in additional funding for the city.
In its statement, Moody&#8217;s acknowledged that the proposed state funding “could have a stabilizing effect over time,” but cautioned that it would matter only “if enacted.” 
Without additional state funding, Mamdani has proposed raising property taxes by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdanis-127b-budget-plan-relies-on-property-tax-increases-and-raiding-rainy-day-fund">9.5%</a> and taking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdanis-127b-budget-plan-relies-on-property-tax-increases-and-raiding-rainy-day-fund">$980</a> million from the city’s rainy-day fund. Moody&#8217;s warned that tapping reserves would “limit financial flexibility, especially if economic growth slows sharply or an outright downturn materializes.” 
New York City Comptroller Mark Levine described the potential property tax hike and use of reserves as having “dire consequences” and called Moody’s decision a red flag. 
“Moody’s decision to review New York City’s outlook to negative is a sobering wakeup call about the fiscal challenges ahead for us,” Levine said. 
The downgrade comes after a year in which the city posted record Wall Street revenues amid a strong local economy.
Despite revising the outlook, Moody&#8217;s left the city&#8217;s bond rating unchanged. A full downgrade would likely raise New York&#8217;s borrowing costs by signaling greater credit risks to investors.
Moody&#8217;s warned that a rating downgrade could follow if budget gaps widen to 10% of city revenue.
Mamdani has attributed the projected deficits to what he describes as mismanagement under former Mayor Eric Adams, arguing that prior budgets failed to adequately fund cash assistance, rental support, and shelter services.
During the Adams administration, the city absorbed more than <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/12/following-asylum-seeker-odyssey/382850/">210,000 migrants,</a> with officials estimating the cost of housing and support services at roughly <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/12/following-asylum-seeker-odyssey/382850/">$4.3</a> billion. Those expenses continue to strain the city&#8217;s budget.
Meanwhile, Mamdani has advanced several costly campaign proposals, including expanded childcare and transit initiatives. According to estimates cited by the New York Post, the mayor&#8217;s proposed expansion of childcare for two-year-olds could grow from $73 million in its first year to $425 million by 2027. A proposed &#8220;free and fast buses&#8221; initiative could cost the city up to <a href="https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/how-mamdani-can-delivery-free-buses-and-subways-too/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20his%20own%20campaign,to%20be%20made%20up%20somewhere.">$800 million</a>.
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If you’re looking for a case study in how the mainstream media constructs a narrative out of thin air to protect their preferred ideological allies, look no further than CNN’s recent coverage of an attempted IED attack in New York City.
On Tuesday night, Abby Phillip and Ana Navarro didn&#8217;t just report the news; they performed a masterclass in obfuscation, deliberately mischaracterizing a terrorist act to frame it as a story of Muslim victimhood.
The facts, which CNN seemingly finds inconvenient, are these: two Pennsylvania teenagers, who reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS, traveled to New York to detonate homemade bombs. Their target wasn&#8217;t a person, but a crowd of protesters. Yet, in the hands of Abby Phillip, this became an &#8220;attempted terror attack against New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Abby Phillips says the IED attack was an “attempted terror attack against NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.”
The suspects yelled “Allahu Akbar” and pledged allegiance to ISIS.
CNN deleted a tweet and issued a retraction this morning. They never learn. <a href="https://t.co/AvsQCUnhP5">pic.twitter.com/AvsQCUnhP5</a>
&mdash; Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) <a href="https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/2031599889201713289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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By framing the attack as one directed at Mamdani — who identifies as Muslim — Phillip and Navarro attempted to pivot the conversation away from radical Islamic terrorism and toward their favorite hobby horse: Republican &#8220;bigotry.&#8221; Phillip used the false premise of an attack on Mamdani to grill guests about comments made by GOP Congressmen Andy Ogles and Randy Fine, effectively using a near-tragedy caused by ISIS sympathizers to scold Republicans for being mean.
Ana Navarro, never one to let a factual error get in the way of a partisan jab, doubled down on the lie. After she declared, “What I find ironic is, so supposedly some of these comments are as a result of the attempt against Mayor Mamdani in New York,” Republican Joe Borelli correctly pointed out that the attackers were targeting protesters, not Mamdani.
Navarro stubbornly insisted, &#8220;It was at his house,&#8221; as if proximity to a building constitutes a targeted assassination attempt. The goal was transparent: if they could convince the audience that Mamdani was the target, they could claim that any criticism of radicalism is actually an incitement to violence against Muslim officials.
Phillip offered an apology on Wednesday morning:
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I want to correct something I said last night. The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers was thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protestors and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani. That wording was inaccurate and I didn’t catch it ahead…
&mdash; Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) <a href="https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/2031708815469486172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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This gaslighting followed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-cnn-quietly-deletes-tone-deaf-take-on-suspected-isis-terrorists?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=SEE+IT%3A+CNN+Quietly+Deletes+Tone-Deaf+Take+On+Suspected+ISIS+Terrorists&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com">humiliating retreat</a> by CNN earlier that day. The network had deleted a tweet that described the terrorists as &#8220;Pennsylvania teenagers&#8221; whose &#8220;lives would drastically change&#8221; after a &#8220;normal day&#8221; ended in arrests for throwing bombs. It was a pathetic attempt to infantilize ISIS-pledging terrorists, portraying them as wayward youths who stumbled into a felony.
Phillip and Navarro’s performance was a cynical attempt to gain sympathy for Mamdani by painting him as a target of the very radicalism the media spent all morning trying to downplay. It is a perfect circle of media dishonesty: first, humanize the terrorists; then, when that fails, lie about the target to cast your political opponents as the real villains.

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New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday celebrated terrorist sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil, a man the federal government has identified as a threat and has tried to deport.
Mamdani proudly took to social media to announce that he welcomed Khalil, an anti-Israel activist, to Gracie Mansion to break the Ramadan fast.
The spectacle was a direct challenge to the Trump administration’s efforts to secure the nation. Khalil, a Green Card holder of Palestinian descent, was ordered to be deported. “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” then-DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-activist-detained-by-ice-led-activities-aligned-to-hamas-trumps-dhs-says">announced</a> last year. Adding, “It is a privilege, not a right to be in this country to live or to study. And if you are pushing propaganda that relishes the killings of Americans or promotes terrorists, the door’s that way.”
Mamdani painted Khalil as a victim of &#8220;cruelty&#8221; who was merely &#8220;exercising First Amendment rights.” The mayor used the dinner to double down on the blood libel that Israel is committing &#8220;genocide&#8221; in &#8220;Palestine&#8221; — a country that, as a matter of historical fact, has never existed.
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For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage.
A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE… <a href="https://t.co/6dBtLh0GeT">pic.twitter.com/6dBtLh0GeT</a>
&mdash; Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/2031185185002164590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The &#8220;genocide&#8221; narrative has been thoroughly debunked by military experts. Data <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/14/debunking_genocide_allegations_against_israel_153282.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com">shows</a> the Palestinian population has tripled since 1987, making Israel the most &#8220;incompetent&#8221; practitioner of genocide in human history if the Left&#8217;s claims were true. <a href="https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/213-2.9.2025-Edited.pdf">Reports</a> from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies confirm that Israel has taken &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; measures to protect civilians, while Hamas continues to use Gazans as human shields.
Khalili’s deportation was not carried out immediately because his lawyers filed a flurry of appeals and federal court challenges. In January 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that his challenge must proceed through the immigration court system. While this handed the administration a tactical victory by moving the case forward, the court did not order an immediate deportation.
Because of these ongoing proceedings, federal authorities have not yet announced a firm deportation date, and it remains unclear exactly when ICE will attempt to detain him again. However, the administration’s stance remains firm: &#8220;The door&#8217;s that way&#8221; for those who push terrorist propaganda.
The Trump administration has been clear: living in the United States is a privilege, not a right. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted in a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25894225-dhs-documents-mahmoud-khalil/#document/p1">memo</a>, “An alien is deportable from the United States if the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe that the alien&#8217;s presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States &#8230; I have determined that the activities and presence of these aliens in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences and would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest,” adding on X, “Those who support designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, threaten our national security. The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists. Violators of U.S. law — including international students — face visa denial or revocation, and deportation.”
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Those who support designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, threaten our national security. The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists. Violators of U.S. law — including international students — face visa denial or revocation, and…
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After Khalil made an appearance on CNN, the Department of Homeland Security stated, “Mahmoud Khalil refuses to condemn Hamas because he IS a terrorist sympathizer not because DHS ‘painted’ him as one. He ‘branded’ himself as an antisemite through his own hateful behavior and rhetoric. It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America. The Trump Administration acted well within its statutory and constitutional authority to detain Khalil, as it does with any alien who advocates for violence, glorifies and supports terrorists, harasses Jews, and damages property.”
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Mahmoud Khalil refuses to condemn Hamas because he IS a terrorist sympathizer not because DHS ‘painted’ him as one. He ‘branded’ himself as antisemite through his own hateful behavior and rhetoric.
It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the… <a href="https://t.co/nC2WCR6Dul">pic.twitter.com/nC2WCR6Dul</a>
&mdash; Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1947723549881381363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In the immediate aftermath of an attempted terrorist attack by young supporters of radical Islam outside Gracie Mansion, Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose to tell the world which side he’s on. And it’s definitely not on the side of the cops and protesters who would’ve died in an explosion the young radicals hoped would cause death and destruction &#8220;even bigger&#8221; than the Boston Marathon bombing. No – it’s on the side of radical Islam, the kind supported by his virulent anti-Israel activist friend Mahmoud Khalil.
“Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together,” Mamdani posted. 
The mayor <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2031185185002164590">attached a picture</a> of he and his wife welcoming the activist who led the anti-Jewish protests at Columbia University, including illegal occupations of buildings which caused the Trump Administration to detain him over support for terrorist organizations like Hamas and lying on his original visa form.
The mayor, who chose to condemn the twenty participants in the “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” protest as white supremacists but slow-rolled his condemnation of the would-be Islamist terrorists, was deliberately sending a signal that is impossible to ignore. Zohran Mamdani won’t endorse the violent young radicals outright – that would be a bridge too far – but he wants everyone to know where his heart lies.
It’d be less disturbing if, as so many legacy media organizations declare, Mamdani is a fringe character in the Democratic Party, a TikTok friendly accidental mayor thanks to the fluke of a rash of bad candidates undone by scandals present and past. But Mamdani doesn’t do things by accident, especially when it comes to social media: he sent a message by hosting Khalil, and he wanted young Democrats to see it. And for New York City’s Jewish population to see it, too.
The reason why is made clear by new polling data from the Manhattan Institute, which <a href="https://manhattan.institute/article/do-democrats-want-to-be-normal-survey-analysis-of-todays-democratic-coalition">surveyed</a> the current Democratic coalition on numerous questions related to policy. MI’s overall takeaway is that the Democratic Party has opinions that are much more moderate than those of Mayor Mamdani or New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But digging into the survey’s details illustrate a younger radical fringe which doesn’t have a problem with Khalil, and probably doesn’t have much of a problem with the attempted bombers, either.
According to MI’s polling, a quarter or more of 18–29 year-old Democrats view Israel essentially the same way as Nick Fuentes. “One in four (26%) of these younger Democrats believe that Israel is a colonial apartheid state that must be dismantled and that Israel bears responsibility for any and all violence since its founding,” writes MI vice president Jesse Arm. And of that same cohort, 38% claim the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel was either an “inside job” or a “false flag operation”, allowed or created whole cloth by Israel as a pretext for war in Gaza. And of course they would think that – 24% of them told MI’s pollsters that the Nazi Holocaust of Jews was either greatly exaggerated, or did not happen at all.
There’s no real separation between these Democrats and Mayor Mamdani – he simply represents an elevated luxury version of these beliefs, one that calls for the end of billionaires while hanging with Alex Soros and Huma Abedin in their tricked out penthouse duplex overlooking the city. The Gracie Mansion Khalil féte is a drab return to the Seventies era of “That Party at Lenny’s,” when Leonard Bernstein hosted the Black Panthers and the doyennes of the city hoped to leave their society friends behind as one of “the few attuned souls” to the new Radical Chic. 
As Tom Wolfe <a href="https://nymag.com/article/tom-wolfe-radical-chic-that-party-at-lennys.html">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>They had to be morally avant-garde, able to articulate the luxury opinions fashionable at that exact moment. They had to perform all these inversions—rising to the social stratosphere by ostentatiously demonstrating their solidarity with the oppressed, securing their place atop the structures of power by striking radical poses, and pretending to support tearing those structures down.</blockquote>
Of course, Democrats and their legacy media allies will dismiss this development as an exaggeration. It’s just a dinner, after all. What’s to worry about a bit of light terrorism among friends? And there were probably Nazis there, what do you expect? His wife&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-makes-excuse-for-wife-oct-7-likes-but-paper-trail-doesnt-add-up">Instagram likes</a>, who cares about those, she&#8217;s a private citizen! Chuck and Hakeem, they’re still the leaders of the party last we checked.
The aging neoliberal Democrats still fancy themselves in charge of the situation. They still have their hands on the wheel, and the youngsters will learn their place in time. With the rise of Mamdani and his cohort, that grip will be tested like it has not been in half a century. Do not be surprised when it fails.

New York Is Not For Sale Rally In NYC

Mamdani Heralds The Rise Of The New Radical Chic

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Radical Islam

We keep hearing that Americans should stop focusing so much on the Middle East and focus a lot more on what&#8217;s going on here at home.
I agree with this 100%, because many terrorists are here.
And — they have the tacit and not-so-tacit support of the mayor of New York City and his wife.
Over the weekend, an anti-Islamist protest took place outside Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s home. It was titled “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” and run by a white supremacist named Jake Lang. Roughly 20 people showed up.
20 people were apparently too many for 18-year-old Emir Balat, who threw an ignited device toward the protest area. He was shouting at the time — wait, wait, wait for it — you&#8217;re never going to guess — &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221;
I know, I know, a shocking surprise.
Balat then apparently ran toward 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, and he grabbed a second device. He lit that, and then began running. Eventually, he dropped it. Both men were arrested.
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The criminal complaint stated:
<blockquote>After the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) arrested them at the scene, BALAT and KAYUMI both made statements referring to ISIS. For example, as KAYUMI was being placed inside an NYPD vehicle to be transported, an individual from the surrounding crowd yelled to KAYUMI and asked, in substance and in part, why he had done this. KAYUMI responded, in part and as captured on NYPD body-worn camera footage, “ISIS.” BALAT and KAYUMI also referred to ISIS in recorded post-arrest statements they made after receiving and waiving their Miranda rights.</blockquote>
These were not smoke bombs. They were IEDs. According to the New York Post, the IEDs were homemade. They were packed with nuts, bolts, and screws, and also a household concoction nicknamed by international terrorist groups the “Mother of Satan.”
Law enforcement sources told the Post the IEDs were so volatile they wouldn&#8217;t even have needed a fuse to go off.
To no one&#8217;s surprise, Balat traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, for more than three months last year, and Kayumi traveled to Istanbul in 2024. It turns out there are a lot of people in Turkey who are really, really, Islamist.
The pair admitted to law enforcement that they had watched ISIS videos and were inspired by ISIS.
This should be the biggest story in the country: yet another attempted terror attack by a radical Islamist shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
I say “another’ because in the past ten years or so, there have been a wide variety of such attacks. The Austin nightclub shooting just last week, where the terrorist wore a sweatshirt reading “Property of Allah”; the New Orleans terror ramming of January 1, 2025, killing 14, where the suspect had an ISIS flag in his truck; the New York City truck attack on October 31, 2017, in which a terrorist ran down eight people; the Saint Cloud Mall stabbing in September 2016, in which ten people were stabbed by a terrorist shouting “Allahu Akbar”; the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting of 2016 — which was to that point the deadliest mass shooting in American history with 49 killed and the guy was shouting “Allahu Akbar”; the University of California, Merced stabbing of 2015. 
And of course, this wasn&#8217;t even the only suspected terror bombing in the West over the weekend. In Norway, the U.S. embassy was bombed early Sunday morning local time.
But that&#8217;s not the biggest story here.
The biggest story was the reaction from the mayor in New York. The mayor&#8217;s office released a statement condemning — the Anti-Islamist protesters!
Not a word about the attempted bombers, as of Sunday night. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s press secretary said, “The crusade against Islamification gathering held outside Gracie Mansion today by Jake Lang, a vile white supremacist, was despicable and Islamophobic. Thankfully, the mayor and the First Lady are both safe, though the events are a stark reminder of the threats they both face regularly.”
The mayor put out another <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/03/statement-from-mayor-zohran-kwame-mamdani-on-protests-outside-of">statement</a>: “Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city&#8217;s values and the unity that defines who we are. What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.”
Did you notice something in those statements? Jake Lang was condemned in the fullest possible terms. So were the protesters. But, you may have noticed, you would have no idea from those statements who the people were that threw the IED. What did they actually believe? Were they wrong? 
Not a word of condemnation. Not one single word. In fact, if you read the mayor&#8217;s statement without context, you would come away thinking that Lang and his group threw the IED, which is disgusting and crazy and vile, because it turns out that if ISIS devotees throw a bomb at the “Stop the Islamic Takeover rally,” the people who ought to be called out are the ISIS devotees. They are the ones who threw a bomb.
So you have one group that&#8217;s saying stuff you don&#8217;t like, and you have another couple of guys who are lone wolves associated with ISIS who literally built IEDs to throw at a crowd.
And Zohran Mamdani’s response is, “Man, that rally was superbad. And the violence that happened afterward, I mean, that was bad.”
What the hell is he talking about?
We know. We know what&#8217;s happening here. This is not a shock.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, is a lifelong supporter of terrorists, going all the way back to his days as a failed rapper. And, as it turns out, so was the first lady of New York. She repeatedly liked social media posts celebrating October 7 as it unfolded. She even liked one post calling New York Times reporting on the rape of Israeli women by Hamas “a mass rape hoax.”
What was Mamdani’s <a href="https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/2029976420274032776">response</a> to the reports that his wife had liked a bunch of posts sympathetic to terrorists?
<blockquote>You know, my wife is the love of my life, and she&#8217;s also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall. I, however, was elected to represent all 8.5 million people in the city, and I believe that it&#8217;s my responsibility, because of that role, to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my decisions.</blockquote>
I have a question for him. Why did your statement about ISIS affiliates throwing bombs at a rally not mention ISIS, radical Islam, terrorism, or anything else about that?
Are we supposed to believe that the husband of the woman who was sympathetic to October 7 disagrees with any of her sentiments? And if so, precisely why?
The problem here isn&#8217;t just a fringe issue. It is now a mainstream issue for the Democratic Party, which has decided that pooh-poohing radical Islam is de rigueur in order to condemn both America and Israel.
And Mamdani is the face of their movement.

NYC Mayor Mamdani Holds News Conference As Authorities Probe Alleged ‘ISIS-Inspired’ Attack In New York

America Last: The Mamdani Playbook

Ben Shapiro

Opinion

A terror scare erupted in America’s tourist hotspot when suspected homemade bombs packed with nuts, bolts, and screws were hurled toward a crowd.
The devices were tossed during dueling protests late Saturday morning near Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s residence on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said investigators are still working to determine whether the devices were functional explosives or hoaxes, adding the information released so far is early and could change as the investigation develops.
Police say the first protest began around 11 a.m. near Gracie Mansion. The demonstration — titled “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer” — drew about 20 participants and was organized by individuals associated with January 6 defendant Jake Lang.
A counter-protest nearby called “Run the Nazis out of New York City, Stand Against Hate” drew roughly 125 people at its peak. Officers separated the two groups into designated protest areas, but tensions escalated shortly before noon.
At 12:15 p.m., police say a protester associated with the Lang demonstration used pepper spray against counter-protesters and was arrested.
Fast forward 20 minutes. The situation intensified.
Police say an 18-year-old counter-protester identified as Amir Balat lit and hurled an ignited device toward the protest area. Witnesses reported seeing flames and smoke trailing the device as it flew through the air before striking a barrier and extinguishing just feet from police officers.
Balat then ran from the scene, where investigators say he obtained a second device from a 19-year-old man tentatively identified as Ibrahim Nick.
Police say Balat lit that device while running before dropping it nearby. Officers quickly moved in, secured the area and took both men into custody. The incident was captured on NYPD surveillance cameras.
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WATCH: NYPD tackle man who allegedly set off a “homemade smoke bomb.” Police are now ordering everyone to clear the area.<a href="https://twitter.com/Bodittle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Bodittle</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TPUSA</a> <a href="https://t.co/lUnciJLJ25">pic.twitter.com/lUnciJLJ25</a>
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/2030341117053382819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Bomb squad technicians responded to examine the devices. Tisch said early inspections suggest the objects appeared to be jars wrapped in black tape, slightly smaller than a football, packed with nuts, bolts, and screws and fitted with a hobby fuse that could be ignited.
Investigators are still working to determine whether the devices were functional improvised explosive devices or hoaxes, as it remains unclear whether they contained explosive material.
Both devices were transported by the bomb squad to the department’s Rodman’s Neck facility for further testing and analysis.
Police established a safety perimeter and searched the surrounding area for additional hazards, using canine units and manually inspecting garbage cans, vehicles, and nearby locations.
In total, six arrests were made in connection with the events. Those arrests include the two men accused of handling and deploying the devices, the protester who used pepper spray earlier in the demonstration, and additional individuals charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic.
Some on social media are claiming Balat or Nick yelled “Allahu Akbar,” though that has not been confirmed by authorities.
Tisch praised officers who rushed toward the danger as the situation unfolded.
“I always speak about the police running toward the danger when everyone else runs away,” the commissioner said. “Let me be clear — that happened today.”
“I am grateful that there were no injuries associated with the incident,” she added.
Tisch said she has remained in contact with Mayor Zohran Mamdani throughout the day. Authorities say there is currently no indication the incident is connected to ongoing hostilities involving Iran, though the investigation remains active.
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Watch as <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDPC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYPDPC</a> and NYPD executives brief the media on an ongoing investigation. <a href="https://t.co/FgTRZHumPV">https://t.co/FgTRZHumPV</a> <a href="https://t.co/MKsui1817S">pic.twitter.com/MKsui1817S</a>
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/2030422025928310810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Frontlines TPUSA reporter Bronson Alford told The Daily Wire that the counter-protesters from &#8220;Drive the Nazis out of New York&#8221; were not your average demonstrators.
“The protesters weren’t normal protesters; they were ANTIFA and their goal was to hurt as many conservative journalists as they could,” Alford told The Daily Wire. Alford said things escalated when protesters started screaming “Bomb, bomb, bomb.” His surroundings began to fill with smoke saying it smelled like something had been ignited.

New York City Attack

Arrests Made After Homemade Explosives Cause Terror Scare In NYC

Islam

U.S.

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Syrian-American artist Rama Duwaji, used her personal Instagram account to &#8220;like&#8221; multiple posts that actively cheered on the barbaric Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023.
The revelation from <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/03/zohran-mamdani-wife-rama-duwaji-social-media-oct-7/">Jewish Insider</a> pulls back the curtain on the &#8220;moderate&#8221; facade Mamdani has carefully constructed. While the Mayor now claims to unequivocally condemn Hamas, his wife was busy clicking &#8220;heart&#8221; buttons on images of the very bulldozers used to breach the Israeli border and terrorists parading in captured IDF vehicles. One post liked by Duwaji, shared by an organization called &#8220;The Slow Factory,&#8221; framed the slaughter of 1,200 people as merely &#8220;breaking the walls of apartheid.&#8221;
The timing is particularly damning. While Mamdani — then a state assemblyman — was publicly criticizing a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square for &#8220;making light&#8221; of the massacre, his then-girlfriend was apparently at home digital-cheering for the organizers. Duwaji reportedly liked posts from the &#8220;People’s Forum&#8221;—part of a network linked to Maoist mogul Neville &#8220;Roy&#8221; Singham — which featured the genocidal chant &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; and declared that the Oct. 7 atrocities were a &#8220;human right.&#8221;
When pressed for comment, Duwaji went silent. The Mayor’s office, meanwhile, retreated into a practiced defensive shell, issuing a canned statement reiterating Mamdani’s &#8220;consistent&#8221; condemnation of Hamas. They notably refused to address whether the Mayor shares a dinner table with someone who views the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust as a moment of &#8220;collective liberation.&#8221;
Immediately following the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1200 Israelis, Mamdani (then a state assemblyman) issued a <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1711093032907321525">statement</a> that essentially targeted Israel: “I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours. Netanyahu&#8217;s declaration of war, the Israeli government&#8217;s decision to cut electricity to Gaza, and Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come. The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.”
On the second anniversary of the October 7 massacre, Mamdani posted a <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1975550702056538512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1975550702056538512%7Ctwgr%5Edbbd33728c1d8ba6d046fbf0f9d856ec85c0efff%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fmamdani-blasted-for-october-7-post-he-stands-with-jews-only-when-they-are-dead">statement</a> to his X account. He condemned Israel for perpetrating “genocide” in Gaza, citing fatality numbers from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, writing, “In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war.” He called Israel’s action “war crimes” and attacked the Trump administration, continuing, “Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.”

Mamdani Claims To Condemn Hamas — His Wife’s Instagram ‘Likes’ Say Otherwise

Mamdani’s Wife ‘Liked’ Posts Cheering Oct. 7 Hamas Massacre

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There&#8217;s a coalition of people who are uniting to take down the United States.
These people are cowards, plus liars, plus people who despise America.
It&#8217;s a coalition of scavengers.
There are the cowards who mouth platitudes about how much they really didn&#8217;t like the Ayatollah, but then they spend their days talking about how the United States couldn&#8217;t and shouldn&#8217;t ever do anything about that.
There are the liars who literally craft stories out of nothing in order to undermine America.
And finally, there are the actual American haters who are often both cowards and liars, and really, really just despise America and her pursuit of our national interests in the world.
That coalition is now coming together, but it&#8217;s not going to win because President Trump is going to win this war.
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Let&#8217;s start with the cowards. These are the people who pretend they didn&#8217;t like the Ayatollah very much, but they&#8217;re really, really upset when anyone takes action. So, for example, they&#8217;re really, really mad that international law — the precious gewgaw of the pseudo-intellectuals — has somehow been violated.
Yes. If we don&#8217;t have Myanmar&#8217;s approval of a military strike on the ayatollahs or China&#8217;s approval — and if there is one country we need approval from, it is China, currently oppressing a billion people — or Russia —which is currently engaged in an aggressive war of conquest in Ukraine while throwing dissenters out of random third-story balconies at hotels — we need Russia&#8217;s approval?
That&#8217;s international law. And if we don&#8217;t have their approval, the mullahs must remain immune.
Here is the pathetic Mark Carney <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBFuFwPrdpY">of Canada:</a>
<blockquote>The current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. Despite decades of UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks. Iran&#8217;s nuclear threat remains. And now the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada.</blockquote>
Who gives a sh*t? Really? You guys can’t even win a hockey match.
My favorite part of that is when Carney suggests the IAEA has been thwarted for decades, and U.N. resolutions have been ignored for decades, and now the United States and Israel won&#8217;t even go to the U.N.
He just said why those organizations are trash and do nothing. But oh, my gosh, we didn’t turn to Canada with its vast military prowess. Do we need to drop maple syrup on the Iranians?
New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who has been happy to express support for terror supporters throughout his entire career, is now hiding behind international law as cover for his consistent opposition to Western strength.
Asked if Iran was “better off without the Ayatollah,” he <a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/2028907502436532281?s=20">answered</a>:
<blockquote>I&#8217;ve said before that the Iranian government has engaged in systematic repression of its own people, even killing thousands of Iranians who were seeking to express the most basic forms of dissent earlier this year. It is a brutal government. And I&#8217;ve also said that while I may be a young mayor, I am old enough to remember the devastating consequences of our country pursuing a war with the intent of regime change in that very same region, not that many years ago.</blockquote>
The answer should be, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; 
Even if you have questions about what comes next, the answer should be yes. Yes, Iran is better off without Ayatollah Khamenei. But according to Mamdani, the important thing is saying that the ayatollah is really bad — but the minute anybody does anything, that is so much worse. We have to make sure that Khamenei stays in place because, after all, “the Iraq war.”
This Iraq War syndrome nonsense that has been promoted by the Left and then the horseshoe Right together, that every war is Iraq, every single intervention is Iraq, is ahistorical and absurd and tripe.
In 2015-2016, candidate Donald Trump ran on the platform that the Iraq war was bad — which was a controversial opinion inside the Republican Party at the time. The idea that he is now going to engage in a new, long-lasting occupation — not the first three weeks of the Iraq War, where the United States kicked the living hell out of Saddam Hussein and ended his regime, but what came after that, is ludicrous.
By the way, the first three weeks of the Iraq War were, by every available metric, a win for the United States. It was what came after that became problematic.
The argument of the cowards and liars is that Trump is going to engage in Bush-style nation-building in Iran.
Then there are the cowards who slander Israel to somehow imply that Israel is the bad guy in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
Take Gavin Newsom, who is absolutely slimy. As I said before, the man takes more positions on politics than the Kama Sutra. This is the same guy who, in an interview with me, freely admitted that Israel had not committed genocide in Gaza. Last night, however, he went on with the “Pod Save America” bros, knowing he had to please their Israel-hating asses.
Thus, he immediately started <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/gavin-newsom-israel-apartheid-state-1236521231/">talking about</a> how Israel is an apartheid state.
False.
20% of the Israeli population is Arab Muslim. They&#8217;re on the Supreme Court. They are in the medical system. A huge percentage of Israeli doctors are Arab Muslims. They&#8217;re in every area of Israeli society.
How can it be apartheid for Israel to have delegated certain parts of land to, for example, the Palestinian Authority, a terror-supporting group?
But Gavin Newsom knows he has to mouth these platitudes to his far-Left friends if he wants the nomination, because the Democratic Party — as Senator John Fetterman said yesterday on my show — is moving dramatically away from Israel.
Here&#8217;s Gavin Newsom <a href="https://x.com/clashreport/status/2029085070321938865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2029085070321938865%7Ctwgr%5E4fb64ae5ce1adc6ac7ef128a0ea3c54c4dfb046a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-news%2Fgavin-newsom-israel-apartheid-state-1236521231%2F">telling lies</a> and being a coward, speaking of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
<blockquote>He&#8217;s got his own domestic issues. He&#8217;s trying to stay out of jail. He&#8217;s got an election coming up. He&#8217;s potentially on the ropes. He&#8217;s got folks, the hard line, that want to annex the West or the West Bank. I mean, (Thomas) Friedman and others are talking about it, appropriate, sort of an apartheid state. They couldn&#8217;t even, I mean, we&#8217;re talking about regime change. For two years, they haven&#8217;t even been able to solve the Hamas question.</blockquote>
Asked about rethinking our military support for Israel. He replied, “It breaks my heart, because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don&#8217;t think you have a choice. But that consideration, I mean to say this is in America&#8217;s interest at a time when affordability crisis levels, where you had an administration literally got elected, saying this is exactly the opposite of what they would ever consider doing. The fact that we are in this now regional war, all these proxies.”
He is a coward and a liar.
The fact of the matter is that blaming the attack on Iran on Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, is a lie. There&#8217;s complete solidarity in Israel from Left to Right on what Israel is doing right now. From Yair Lapid, who is on the Left, to Naftali Bennett, the chief rival to Netanyahu, to Yair Golan on the far, far, far Left, everyone agrees on this.
But when you are a coward, and you&#8217;re afraid of your own party, you have to start lying.
And then there are the actual liars, the people making actual stories up out of nothing. Stories they know aren&#8217;t true, but they push them anyway. The catastrophists aren&#8217;t actually worried about World War III or a long-standing boots on the ground occupation, but try to lie to Americans that they are.
Thus, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who has had his own shady history with the truth when it comes to his purported military service, said <a href="https://x.com/yashar/status/2028975539214782618">he&#8217;s worried</a> that we&#8217;re going to put boots on the ground.
Does he mean that there might be special operators on the ground? Because if we&#8217;re talking about special operators on the ground, welcome to the real world, where the United States has special operators on the ground all over the world, everywhere from Asia to Africa and the Middle East.
But that&#8217;s not what he was implying. He was implying a gigantic airlift of hundreds of thousands of troops, a gigantic boots on the ground footprint. It&#8217;s a lie. It is untrue.
It&#8217;s astonishing to watch this while he is wearing the American flag/Ukraine flag pin on his lapel.
“I am more fearful than ever after this briefing that we may be putting boots on the ground, and that the troops from the United States may be necessary to accomplish the objectives that the administration seems to have, but I also am no more clear on what the priorities are going to be given this regime going forward,” he <a href="https://x.com/yashar/status/2028975539214782618">hyperventilated</a>.
These are lies. It&#8217;s not true.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), directly from the Native American reservation, from her teepee, says that <a href="https://youtu.be/DxrTqQEZ69s">there is no plan</a>.
And she would know because, after all, she is a military leader and expert.
“I just left a classified briefing on Iran,” she huffed. “And here&#8217;s what I can say: It is so much worse than you thought. The Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation. Donald Trump still hasn&#8217;t given us a single clear reason for this war, and he seems to have no plan for how to end it either. Like a lot of you, I am really angry. I am angry at what Donald Trump is doing, and I feel grief for those already killed in this unnecessary conflict. And I will keep doing everything I can to fight to end this war.” 
What a liar she is. What an absolute liar. President Trump hasn&#8217;t explained it? What&#8217;s been happening for the past 50 years?
This notion that no one knows why, that what has happened is some mystery out of the blue?
No one believes that.
The idea that there&#8217;s no plan here is horsesh*t. There is a plan here, and the military is laying it out, but the liars are going to lie.
Finally, there are the American haters. There are a lot of people who live in America who truly hate America.
There&#8217;s an easy way to tell who hates America.
If you call America a terrorist organization for killing one of the world&#8217;s most evil dictators, for example, I know you hate America.
If you say that the United States is the worst terror organization in the world, you don&#8217;t like America, period, because that is such an overt lie.
That is such a moral calumny that there can only be one explanation, and it is your deep and abiding hatred for America&#8217;s role in the world.
To make that argument, you have to deliberately obscure the difference between actual terrorists who deliberately seek to kill innocent people and nation states seeking to avoid civilian casualties, often while fighting those actual terrorists.
That is the point for people who hate America: To reduce America to the level of its enemies in order to uphold those enemies. 
You also hate America if you claim that the president of the United States is merely a tool of foreign interests without any evidence whatsoever. You are promoting lies directly mirroring those of the Iranian terrorist government, in direct contravention of truth and of the Trump administration&#8217;s own words.
President Trump was asked directly whether it was Israel that was leading him around. He <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/2028877941808005217">fired back</a>, “I might have forced their hand. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack if we didn&#8217;t do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. And we had great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully and have done it all their lives, very successful. And, based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first.”
Another game that the Coalition of Scavengers is playing here with regard to President Trump is that what he&#8217;s doing right now is wildly unpopular with the American people.
According to CBS News, 85% of Republicans support the president&#8217;s strikes on Iran. 
According to Fox News, 84% of Republicans support the strikes on Iran. 
According to The Washington Post, 81% of Republicans support the strike on Iran. 
According to Reuters/Ipsos, 82% of Republicans support the strikes on Iran.
So, it doesn&#8217;t sound like much of a split inside the Republican Party.
Military households approve of the current action against Iran by a 20-point margin, 60-40. One of the great ironies of all the people on the Left and the horseshoe Right who claim to speak in the name of the military is that they very rarely actually talk to people who are in the military. The military is quite conservative and hawkish when it comes to actual effectuating of American foreign policy.
The lesson of all this?
Be a lion, not a scavenger.

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