The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Zohran Mamdani's Skeletons Are Coming Out of the Closet

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. We've talked before about the frontrunner in the New York mayorial race, Zolan Mamdani. Because he is such an extremist figure, and now that he's in the public realm, everything is starting to come out. Just give you a couple of examples.

Starting point is 00:00:43 Barack Obama, when he was president, ordered a predator hit team on it, killed Al-Lawki, and they targeted assassination. I don't know if you remember him, Al-Aulaki. He was an American citizen that went to Yemen, and he advocated killing Americans, and he was a terrorist. Now we learned in 2015, years after that, Obama hit on this ISIS figure, Mamdani was defending him and saying, basically, he turned radical because FBI surveilled.

Starting point is 00:01:10 People don't go become terrorist kingpins because the American FBI thinks you're a person of interest. That's crazy. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. We've talked before about the frontrunner in the New York mayorial. race, Zolan Mamdani. And we've mentioned before that he talked about seizing the means of production, which comes out right out of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Das Kapital, the Communist Manifesto. We talked about his claims that he never advocated defunding the police, even though there's an extensive social media trail where he advocates just that.

Starting point is 00:02:01 He talked about going into richer and whiter areas and taxing them specifically at a higher rate, kind of ironic, as we mentioned, that the highest income group in the United States by ethnic background are people from India, Indian Americans, Mandani's parents, for example. He didn't say, in other words, richer and Indian American. He just used the word white because he's trying to cater himself to the African American vote. All that being said, because he is such an extremist figure, and because he has been pampered and grown up very rich, was never really required to go out and get a job and go through audits. He's been a rapper.

Starting point is 00:02:42 He's been an activist. He's tried to run for office. He has an extensive left-wing record. And now that he's in the public realm, everything is starting to come out. Just give you a couple of examples. His father was in a discussion, a conference discussion, and said that Adolf Hitler's idea for the final solution, and many of his policies toward the Jews came from Abraham Lincoln, the way Lincoln supposedly created or treated reservations, Indians on reservation. That's crazy. Al-Lawki, I don't know if you remember him, Al-Aulaki. He was an American citizen that went to you.

Starting point is 00:03:24 Yemen, and he advocated killing Americans, and he was a terrorist. Barack Obama, when he was president, ordered a predator hit team on him and killed Al-Loki, and they targeted assassination. Who was, by the way, an ISIS supporter, but he was also a U.S. citizen. So we assassinated him without habeas corpus, be as that as it may. That was Obama's decision. But now we learned in 2015, years after that Obama hit on him on this ISIS figure, was one of the captains of ISIS and living in Yemen, Mamdani was defending him and saying, basically, he turned radical because the FBI surveilled him. That's like saying that Cash Patel turned radical because the FBI surveil him. People don't become terrorist kingpins because the American FBI thinks you're

Starting point is 00:04:16 a person of interest. He has some other disturbing things as well. He posted a video and a social media of Indian Americans dressed as if they were Hasidic Jews and they were making fun of the Hanukkah celebration. And they had a menorah there and they were chanting as if they were rap music. It was very derogatory toward Jews. Yet why would he put that there on his social media account? That's not the end of it. He's very sensitive about the African-American and Latino vote, which I don't think he's going to win. But now we learn that when he applied to college to Bedouin, and I think further to graduate school in which he was not admitted, he claimed that he was an African-American. And, you know, as someone who was in academia for three decades, I used to have students that

Starting point is 00:05:12 were from North Africa, Egypt or Morocco or Africa. Algeria, but were not African-American. That is, they were not blacks. And they tried that trick, and they were not successful. Either was Mamdani. But imagine he's giving lectures, moral lectures, sanctimonious lectures, self-righteous lectures, about how unequal the United States is. And then yet he tries to mimic or pass on a Elizabeth Warren or Ward Churchill-like fraud, that he's African-American, that he's a black African just because his parents, who were Indian and immigrants to Uganda and were one of the 1% elite in that country, and they were thrown out as refugees, he's now claiming that he should have had special,

Starting point is 00:06:02 I shouldn't say he's now claiming, he claimed that he should have had special preference in admissions because he was black. You add all of this up, and I guarantee you more will come out every day because he's a pampered, privileged, angry, young socialist-communist. He's had no experience. He's out of depth, and he has a long social media record. And the only question that I have for you, the audience, and me, because I'm genuinely puzzled about it, the more that we hear that he's lunatic and unhinged and anti-American and socialist,

Starting point is 00:06:39 does that help him or does that hurt him, given the demographics of New York? Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.

The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Zohran Mamdani's Skeletons Are Coming Out of the Closet

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