Mark Tanos Contributor | Daily Caller |
The confrontation at Foley Square turned heated when the irate man followed Mamdani and demanded he denounce Hezbollah and Sharia, according to a video on X. Security personnel intervened to escort the candidate away from the scene.
The incident comes as Mamdani faces growing scrutiny over his campaign funding sources. The political newcomer has raised close to $16 million, far outpacing his opponents in private donations, the New York Post reported.
With $5 million cash on hand, he has built a substantial war chest heading into November’s general election.
New York City’s public financing system matches local contributions up to eight times the first $250, amplifying small-dollar donors. Mamdani has received contributions from controversial organizations and individuals, according to reports.
Five staff members from the Islamic Circle of North America contributed $1,300 to his campaign, generating $7,700 in total funds through matching. The Council on American-Islamic Relations donated $100,000 to a Mamdani-aligned political action committee, the outlet reported.
College and university workers provided more than 2,000 individual donations to the candidate. New York academics at various institutions contributed just over $105,000, or up to $690,000 when boosted by matching funds.
Mamdani has refused to condemn calls for violence against Israel. He used this week’s Oct. 7 anniversary to accuse Israel of “genocide.”
The candidate’s supporters reject accusations of extremism. Vox recently described Mamdani’s agenda as “not-so-radical,” portraying him as a neighborhood activist and champion of the working class.
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Didn’t he become a citizen the same year he posted a video rapping about his love for the Holyland Five? 2017, Trump’s first year in office, though he came when he was 10. He now has dual citizenship with Uganda, where he comes from a wealthy powerful family with a big estate, where he was just married, and he owns land himself. Is it unreasonable to wonder if he lied on his application or omitted important information? I’d like to see that application, the rules, and what he wrote. And what year did he co-found Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College where he led demonstrations against Israel on October 8, 2023 though he’s 33. Is this being investigated? A Republican politician called for it and Dems ridiculed the idea as absurd on the face of it. Lying or omitting crucial information on the application is legal grounds for de-naturalization and deportation.
He failed to get into Columbia even though he graduated from a prestigious high school and his father was a professor there presumably because he lied (though he was being truthful in a literal-minded way in which nobody talks ) about his ethnicity on the application, checking off the boxes, African-American and Asian, apparently not realizing they would probably regard him as a “person of color” in his own right (amazing isn’t it how white so many “people of color ” look? Put Danny Danon next to Abbas and don’t tell your average college student who they are, and who looks like the old white guy and therefore Israel, and who the “person of color” and therefore Pal, of course, and what do you think they’d say?