As soon as word got out that conservative commentator Charlie Kirk had been shot, rumors began circulating online suggesting Israeli involvement, compelling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismiss them as absurd and antisemitic. A Grayzone article cited an anonymous Trump insider who claimed Kirk rejected Netanyahu’s financial backing for Turning Point USA and faced escalating pressure and intimidation from pro-Israel allies. Guest host Misty Winston and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how, in the months before his death, Kirk publicly questioned Israeli influence in Washington, October 7th intelligence failures, and the unchecked power of Zionist donors, sparking backlash from figures like Ben Shapiro. The coverage frames Kirk’s killing as both a turning point in right-wing discourse on Israel and a warning to others not to dissent. Plus segments on the CIA’s long history of trafficking cocaine, even through Venezuela, and why Zohran Mamdani is not coming to save us from our corrupt political system. Also featuring Jimmy Dore, Stef Zamorano and Mike MacRae. And a phone call from Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani!
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Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hello, my old friend.
It's former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
How are you doing today, Jimmy?
Oh, I'm doing pretty well, Governor.
Perhaps better than yourself.
You're not doing well in these polls, I'll tell you that.
Jimmy, as my beloved Jewish friends with whom I am lockedstep in support of Israel are wont to say, polls, schmoles.
You're not bothered by Zohad Mandami's significant lead over you.
Let's not say his fucking name.
Thank you.
And no, I'm not.
How short our memory must be.
Not long ago, a few months ago, I was leading in the polls for the primary election for New York mayor.
And we all know how that turned out.
You lost.
I fucking lost big.
So ironically, my loss earlier this year bodes well for me winning in November.
Boy, that is a rather rosy way of looking at it.
That's me, rosy as a rosebush.
But let's take another look at that poll, shall we?
Jimmy, the headline here is that I am polling well ahead of two other candidates, Curtis Slewa with 10 points and sitting mayor Adams with a mere seven points, dead last.
That's gotta hurt.
Yikes.
Precisely.
Now, it would make sense to me if these two gentlemen would do this sensible thing and drop out of the race.
And I am confident that most of their support would go to me, not the Muslim communist, therefore putting me in the lead.
Doesn't that make sense?
Doesn't that make sense, Jimmy?
Aren't you making a pretty huge assumption here?
Not really.
Not really.
Let's think this through.
Any of these bozos who are still supporting Adams at this point are doing so because they're terrified of change.
If he goes away, the closest thing to not change is me, Andrew Cuomo.
Okay.
And then you have Curtis Slewa.
He wears a stupid beret and lives alone in a tiny apartment with a dozen or so cats.
And he has a very cat-based platform.
So he appeals primarily to failed artists and potential mass shooters.
And I can say with confidence that I will win those voters over.
I see.
So then, after that, we can aim our big guns at our main opponent, the Muslim communist.
All of New York City is not Williamsburg.
It will not be hard to marginalize him as an outsider and a threat to democracy.
So that's still your strategy.
Oh, of course.
I just need to learn to contain my rage.
The only skill this young man has, apparently, is getting under my skin.
And I'll be damned if I allow him to have his first real job ever because of this skill.
You seem to blow your top every time he calls in.
I know, I know.
And once I realize that he does so, just to make me lose my temper, that it's a ploy on his part, it became easier to remain calm and not take the bait.
Well, that's good to hear.
And, hey, what do you know?
I think he's calling now.
Hello, this is the Jimmy Door show.
Hi, it's Zoran Mandami calling.
Isn't that cool?
Hi, Zoran.
Hello, Zoran.
How are you, comrades, doing today?
Don't fucking call me sorry.
Sorry.
Zoron, would you please not call me that?
Unlike you, I am not a filthy communist.
Actually, I'm socialist, but thanks for playing.
So, Zoron, how do you feel about leading Governor Cuomo in the polls by whopping double digits?
I feel pretty awesome about that, actually.
Thanks for asking.
I feel like our message has really resonated with New Yorkers.
And yeah, like I feel the city is definitely drawn to the positive vibe of our campaign, if that makes sense.
Yeah, it does.
What, what is, what is exactly the message of your campaign, Zoron?
Well, a big part of our message is that New Yorkers deserve a mayor who's not a sex pest, and that seems to be going down well with voters.
Ah, I see.
Yet another passive-aggressive millennial-style equip designed to get under my skin and send me off the rails.
Sorry it didn't work.
Okay, just stating a fact that everybody knows.
We are not going to relitigate all of that here today.
Good, I don't think we need to.
I'd much rather discuss other items in our platform, like officially renaming Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples Day.
What?
Christopher Columbus was a mass-murdering genocidal maniac who does not deserve.
Cristo Colombo was a great man and a great Italian and a real point of pride for the Italian-American community of this city.
And you would be wise to remember that, young man.
White people, you just mean white people.
Excuse me.
Italy is in Europe.
Italian Americans, as you call them, are just white people.
They're not like a distinct thing.
Columbus is a hero to white people, yes, and celebrating a white hero is inherently racist.
We should be centering indigenous people of color, not whites.
Sorry to tell you, but white people, Italians, whatever, are not some oppressed group.
Now you fucking done it, you little fucking weasel.
Puccini, mascagne, bocorini, tradoria.
When my great-grandfather came here, he couldn't get a fucking job because he was Italian.
You grew up rich, came here, and never needed a job until now, apparently.
And now you want to erase Italians in New York City over my fucking dead body.
Fuck you and the fucking camel you rode in on.
Governor, please.
Got him.
Got him, Jimmy.
I knew I could.
I knew the Italian thing would break him.
You were right, Zoron.
I was.
I was so right.
All right.
Nicely played.
Well done, Zoron.
You've exposed yourself more as an agitator than a serious candidate.
So in the end, it helped me more than yourself.
That being said, if I ever see you in person again, I'm going to knock you the fuck out and force feed you sausage and peppers until you shit kumquats.
That doesn't even make sense.
Yeah, all right.
All right.
This is a circus.
Once again, I have to hang up on you two so I can move on with the show.
Okay, whatever.
Bye.
I am going to win this thing and then mount his severed head in the middle of Columbus Circle.
But, Jimmy, I always love talking to you, my friend.
I'll revade.
Ciao.
I am your guest, Jose Missy Winston.
Apologies for not being Jimmy Door.
We are going to move on now to talk about an article that just came out in the Gray Zone by Max Lumenthal and Anya Parampil, who are fantastic.
And this is that Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer and was frightened by pro-Israel forces before Death Friend reveals.
Now, you can think whatever you want to think about whether or not Israel is responsible for this or they're not, but I do think that what is very telling about what's happening right now is that they have very clearly lost control over the narrative and over their image.
And immediately, people are willing to question them on this.
And I think that that's at least something good is that now nine times out of ten, probably 10 times out of 10.
Right.
Did Israel do it?
Probably yes.
Yeah.
They just showed they have, there's literally no rule that they obey.
No, that's like, yeah.
Oh, is North Korea a rogue nation?
Really?
Yeah, they're they're really out of control.
So a Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells the Gray Zone how the assassinated conservative leader's turning point on Israel influence provoked a private backlash from Netanyahu's allies that left him angry and afraid.
The source said anxiety spread within the Trump administration after an apparent Israeli spying operation was uncovered.
Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionist money into his turning point USA organization, America's largest conservative youth association, according to a longtime friend of the slain commentator, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The source told the Gray Zone that the late pro-Trump influencer believed Netanyahu was trying to cow him into silence as he began to publicly question Israel's overwhelming influence in Washington and demanded more space to criticize it.
In the weeks leading up to his September 10th assassination, Kirk had come to loathe the Israeli leader, regarding him as a quote-unquote bully, the source said.
That's saying it lightly.
Kirk was disgusted by what he witnessed inside the Trump administration, where Netanyahu sought to personally dictate the president's personnel decisions and weaponized Israeli assets like billionaire donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under its thumb.
According to Kirk's friend, who also enjoyed access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, Kirk strongly warned Trump last June against bombing Iran on Israel's behalf.
Quote, Charlie was the only person who did that, they said, recalling how Trump barked at him in response and angrily shut down the conversation.
The source believes the incident confirmed in Kirk's mind that the president of the United States had fallen under control of a malign foreign power and was leading his own country into a series of disastrous conflicts.
By the following month, Kirk had become the target of a sustained private campaign of intimidation and free-floating fury by wealthy and powerful allies of Netanyahu, figures he described in an interview as Jewish leaders and stakeholders.
He was afraid of them, the source emphasized.
Kirk was 18 years old when he launched TPUSA in 2012.
From its inception, his career was propelled by Zionist donors who showered his young organization with money through neoconservative outfits, excuse me, like the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
He repaid his wealthy backers over the years by unleashing a relentless fire hose of anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic diatribes, accepting propaganda trips to Israel and sternly shutting down nationalist forces, challenging his support for Israel during TPUSA events.
In the Trump era, few American Gentiles had proved more valuable to the self-proclaimed Jewish state than Charlie Kirk.
But as Israel's genocidal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip drove an unprecedented backlash within grassroots right-wing circles, where only 24% of younger Republicans now sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians, Kirk began to shift at times.
He towed the Israeli line, spreading disinformation about babies beheaded by Hamas on October 7th and denying the famine imposed on the population of Gaza.
Yet he simultaneously ceded to his base, wondering aloud if Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset, questioning whether the Israeli government allowed the October 7th attacks to proceed in order to advance long-term political goals and parroting narratives familiar to his most vociferous critic on the right, streamer Nick Fuentes.
So here is Charlie Kirk questioning October 7th.
And this is something I also questioned the day that it happened for reasons that Charlie explains here.
Israel is a fortress.
Oh, come on now.
Where is it?
Where is it?
Oh, I lost it.
Hold, please.
Hold, please.
I lost that video.
It just disappeared.
Sometimes the whole country.
Oh, there it goes.
When I first heard this story, I still had the same gut instinct that I did initially.
I find this very hard to believe.
I've been to that Gaza border.
You cannot go 10 feet without running into a 19-year-old with an AR-15 or an automatic machine gun that is an IDF soldier, right?
The whole country is surveilled.
And so let me just kind of go through this.
We don't talk about Israeli politics very often, and most Americans don't know this.
The last nine months, Israel was on the brink of civil war.
It's not an exaggeration.
This judicial stuff, there were hundreds of thousands of Israelis taking to the streets because Bibi Netanyahu was basically redefining the Israeli constitution.
That's not an exaggeration, right?
He said the judicial branch has too much power.
There were protests planned this week against Netanyahu, where they anticipated tens of thousands of people to take to the streets.
That's all gone, Patrick.
Netanyahu now has an emergency government and a mandate to lead.
I'm not willing to say, to go so far that saying that Netanyahu knew or there was intelligence here, but I think some questions need to be asked.
Was there a stand down order?
Was there a stand down order?
Six hours?
I don't believe it.
It was.
Israel's the side of size New Jersey.
When I took a helicopter ride from Jerusalem to the Gaza border, it's 45 minutes.
Six hours.
They're live streaming the killing of Jews.
Did somebody in the government say stand down?
That is a legitimate non-conspiracy question.
The whole country is the IDF.
The whole country is.
And you're trying to tell me that they're going to concerts and kibbutzes and schools and by report.
Yes.
And that is a very valid question.
Was it allowed to happen?
Well, of course, now, of course, it was allowed to happen on purpose.
We know what happens when things get tough for Netanyahu.
He'll kill anybody.
He'll kill Jews on October 7th.
And he'll have his, what's the guy, Galan?
Who's the guy who ordered Hannibal directive?
They asked him to get on TV.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then him and Bibi get in a fight because Bibi's too crazy even for him, I guess.
And then they come out.
Yeah, it was given a little bit.
The whole country is the IDF.
That means the Hannibal Directive, they killed their own people.
So if they do that to Israeli Jews, if that's what the IDF would do under orders, what do you think they do to Charlie Kirk at a crucial moment when they just blew up Qatar?
One of the biggest crimes I've ever heard of.
Yeah.
And listen, Gaza was one of the most surveilled.
It's a tiny area and it was one of the most surveilled pieces of land on the planet.
Period.
There's absolutely no, you cannot convince me not to mention the fact that the Egyptians warned Israel in the weeks leading up to October 7th.
So there's people just blank you out if they don't want to hear it.
But Charlie Kirk was a true believer.
I didn't realize that.
I was like, oh, surely he knows better.
But no, he's a pretty young guy.
And he probably started to dawn on him.
You know, somebody gets gradually disillusioned with their righteous cause that they really believed in.
And you start asking questions and then you're in trouble because you asked questions.
Yeah.
Right.
And once you ask a question, it's like a snowball effect.
You just start to question everything.
So this July at his TPUSA Student Action Summit, Kirk provided a forum for the right-wing grassroots to vent its fury about Israel's political hammer lock on the Trump administration.
There, speakers from former Fox News stalwarts Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly to the anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith denounced Israel's blood-soaked assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, branded Jeffrey Epstein as an Israeli intelligence asset, and openly taunted Zionist billionaires like Bill Ackman for, quote, getting away with scams despite having no actual skills.
here's Tucker talking about that very thing for it the unfairness of it drives you crazy and it's particularly galling in the case of Jeffrey Epstein and the whole constellation of people around Jeffrey Epstein all of whom seem to be getting away with scams and how do you know they're getting away with scams I'll tell you how, because they're useless and they're rich.
So how do you come to a place where some of the least impressive, most useless people who have no actual skills become billionaires?
How's that legitimate?
And by the way, if you ask this question, at least in Washington, it's like, oh, well, yeah, it sounds like you're a socialist.
Sounds like socialism.
Okay, I'm a socialist now.
All right.
I was a Qatari agent or a bigot.
Now I'm a socialist.
All right.
Leaving aside my committed socialism, can you answer the question?
How did Bill Ackerman get $9 million billion dollars?
Bill Ackman, a pretty impressive guy?
I know Bill Ackman.
No.
Jacking up the prices on drugs.
That's it.
Morton Shrelly's stuff.
I think, you know, well-connected, super aggressive people deserve a fair living like everybody else.
But if you're accruing $9 million just because you're willing to do anything, I don't know why we have to pretend that's good.
Yeah.
So Israel does anything and they're good.
So that's why.
Yeah.
Would you do anything to survive if you were Israel, even kill a bunch of kids and kill Charlie Kirk with a fake thing and make it a left?
As soon as Max Lumenthal is writing a report on it, you know that's where the story goes.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
The whole, yes, it's all very brand proud.
I've never seen them report anything where I was like, oh, they were way off on that one.
Right?
No, there's.
I still have a mistake, but I just haven't seen it.
I've seen it with everybody else, though.
I think they were a little, or maybe that was Aaron.
There was something with Siri, or not Siri.
Never mind.
I'm going to, I'm, I don't want to misspeak.
Okay.
So following the confab, Kirk was bombarded with infuriated text messages and phone calls from Netanyahu's wealthy allies in the U.S., including many who had funded TPUSA.
According to his longtime friend, the Zionist donors treated Kirk with outright contempt, essentially ordering him to fall back into line.
Yes.
Quote, he was being told what you're not allowed to do, and it was driving him crazy, Kirk's friend recalled.
The conservative youth leader was not only alienated by the hostile nature of the interactions, but quote unquote, frightened by the backlash.
I get it.
The friend's account dovetails with those of multiple right-wing commentators with access to Kirk.
Quote, I think in the end, Charlie was going through a spiritual transformation.
Candace Owens, a conservative influencer who shifted decisively against Israel after October 7th, reflected after her friend's killing.
I know, I know it.
He was going through a lot.
There was a lot of pressure, and it's hard for me to watch the people who were pressuring him just say the things that they're saying.
She continued, they wanted him to lose everything for changing or even slightly modifying an opinion.
It's very hurtful to me.
Kirk appeared visibly outraged during an August 6th interview with conservative host Megan Kelly as he discussed the menacing messages he was receiving from pro-Israel bigwigs.
Quote, it's all of a sudden, oh, Charlie, he's no longer with us.
Wait a second.
What does with us mean exactly?
I'm an American, okay?
I represent this country.
He explained before addressing the powerful Zionist interests around.
I mean, they killed him.
They killed him.
It's just mafia, obvious mafia stuff the second you hear it.
Well, and it's very clearly to not just because he was Charlie Kirk and very influential.
And I think the demographic with which he was influential also matters because it was like college kids, right?
And that's a very powerful demographic.
So I think that that matters.
But I also think that this is very clearly to install fear, right?
This is really about not necessarily Charlie Kirk, but you don't want to, you don't want to do a Charlie Kirk.
If you even start to slightly question, this could be what happens to you.
That's, you know, kind of the goal here, I think.
So, quote, the more that you guys privately and publicly call our character into question, which is not isolated.
It would be one thing if it were just one text or two texts.
It is dozens of texts.
Then we start to say, well, hold the vote here, Kirk continued.
To be fair, some really good Jewish friends say that's not all of us, but these are leaders here.
These are stakeholders.
He went on to complain to Kelly, quote, I have less ability to criticize the Israeli government than actual Israelis do.
And that's really, really weird.
In one of his final interviews conducted with Israel's premier influencer in the United States, Ben Shapiro, Kirk once again tried to raise the issue of censorship of Israel critics.
Quote, a friend said to me interestingly, Charlie, okay, we've pushed back against the media on COVID, on lockdowns on Ukraine, on the border.
Maybe we should also ask the question, is the media totally presenting the truth when it comes to Israel?
Just a question.
It's never just a question.
So here is Charlie Kirk speaking with Ben Shapiro.
We've pushed back against the media on COVID, on lockdowns, on Ukraine, on the border.
Maybe we should also ask a question, is the media totally presenting the truth when it comes to Israel?
Just a question, you know, that maybe we shouldn't believe everything the media says, because I know I've been conditioned to ask a lot more critical questions over the last couple of years.
So, Ben, some people would accuse Israel of wanting to ethnically cleanse.
Some people in the Israeli government are saying, again, it's all over the place, right?
You have opinions all over.
In your opinion, what would a good outcome five years from now be?
And how does one respond to the claims of ethnic cleansing?
Tell me about that guy, man.
He was because I was very hard on him when he goes, I'm just going to trust my friends in the government.
Yeah.
We were all hard.
I was hard on him.
I mean, I assumed that he wasn't a true.
I've assumed he was like, no, I think he was like a genuine guy.
And then you can see him having to put together, you know, it's pretty hard to put together that the entire system of your government is completely corrupt and owned by a series of mafias.
It's hard to put that together when you're young.
I know from just saying it to people that are young, younger than me, they're all like, that's crazy.
And you don't got to believe me now.
Well, that's a really hard pill to swallow, right?
Like to realize and come to terms with the fact that everything you ever thought is a lie.
Yeah.
Like that's back.
And that was a huge amount.
Unbeknownst to me, he was pushing back an enormous amount because the stakeholders, by the way, I, oh my God, I love that title.
The stakeholders were, hey, we're the billionaires here and you're the punk puppet that we are paying.
Yeah.
The only breaking points can talk about Israel is because they're getting that Pierre Modri.
He's Persian or something.
So they can talk about Israel.
Don't go against your billionaire.
People go audience capture.
Oh, no, I want to be billionaire captured, morons.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is, too.
Billionaire captured.
Okay, according to Kirk's longtime friend, Kirk's resentment of Netanyahu and the Israel lobby was spreading within Trump's inner circle.
In fact, they said the president himself was terrified of Netanyahu's wrath and feared the consequences of defying him.
During the past year, the Trump insider was told by contacts in the White House that the Secret Service had caught Israeli government personnel placing electronic devices on its emergency response vehicles on two separate occasions.
While the gray zone was unable to confirm the story with the Secret Service or White House, such an incident would not have been unprecedented.
Indeed, according to a report in Politico citing three former senior U.S. officials, a cell phone spying device was placed by Israeli agents, quote, near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington toward the end of Trump's first term in 2019, which is not surprising.
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recounted a similar incident in his memoir, writing that his security team found a listening device in his bathroom soon after Netanyahu used his personal toilet.
There is currently no evidence of an Israeli government role in Kirk's assassination.
However, that has not stopped thousands of social media users from speculating that the pro-Trump operatives shifting views on the issue contributed in some ways to his death.
And by the way, Adelson, Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson's wife, who is the person involved with all of this, was also the one that ran the spying operation on Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy, where they were placing listening devices in the women's restroom to spy on him and all of his visitors, including his doctors and lawyers.
So this is not unprecedented.
By the time of publication, over 100,000 Twitter X users have liked a September 11th post by libertarian influencer Ian Carroll, declaring about Kirk, quote, he was their friend.
He basically dedicated his life to them and they murdered him in front of his family.
Israel just shot themselves.
That's a bold statement.
Many advancing the unsubstantiated theory have pointed to a Twitter X post by Harrison Smith, a personality at the pro-Trump InfoWars Network stating on August 13th, almost a month before Kirk's assassination, that he was told by, quote, someone close to Charlie Kirk that Kirk thinks Israel will kill him if he turns against Israel, end quote.
The frenzied speculation has set off shockwaves in Tel Aviv, where Netanyahu was compelled to explicitly deny that his government killed Kirk.
Yeah.
That's not a Kirk.
Like I said, I think you are having issues.
It's like his O.J. Simpson, if I did it press tour.
Last time I saw someone in a Utah setting, there was that district attorney who came out to get it, not being charged with anything like this, came out to say he's not a satanic cannibal.
And everybody's like, what on?
Why would you?
No one said that about you.
Yeah.
Why is this?
It doesn't look good to come out.
No, no.
First of all, Netanyahu, normally, what would he be doing?
He'd be like, this is anti-Semitic.
Of course he would.
Yeah.
And that's coming.
That'll be coming for sure.
So here's, this is him making sure that you know that Israel did not assassinate Charlie Kirk.
Before I let you go, I want you to address one thing.
And it's just the absurdity of it, some of the internet rumors that somehow Israel is behind the Charlie Kirk murder.
And, you know, I don't believe it for one second, but I want you to make a statement.
It's so absurd.
That's insane.
That's insane.
Israel also changes the orbit of the moon.
Israel pushes the sun.
I mean, the whole thing is not only insane.
I think it's so absurd, so stupid, so stupid and so ridiculous.
You can't believe that people are saying that they just found the perpetrator.
They'll get to the bottom of this.
But they go, you know, they have no limits.
When you hate Jews, when you hate the Jewish state, you're willing to say anything and promote all these absurd, absurd rumors.
And by the way, they're willing to kill us all the time.
I mean, that's what they're doing.
And you know, over the centuries, when Jews, especially in the Middle Ages, the horrific Middle Ages, the worst things were said about Jews you can possibly believe.
We were poisoning the wells.
We were drinking the blood of Christian children.
You name it.
I mean, these things, that continued actually up to the Holocaust.
The Nazis said the same thing.
You know, we're carrying vermin.
We're spreading disease.
And people believed it.
And every time they believed it, this was a prelude to a greater and greater massacre culminating with the worst massacre of the Holocaust.
Well, since then, we've learned, A, when people spread these lies about us, prepare yourself for the assault.
And, you know, they're trying to delegitimize the state of Israel.
Charlie Kirk said to me that he wrote me this detailed letter.
You have to fight the slander.
These untruths, these vilifications have consequences.
And he was right.
But I'll tell you one thing.
We're fighting on the battlefield against the terrorists and winning.
You are.
He was fighting in the battlefield of ideas.
And I think he was winning.
He was going to win.
That's why they shot him.
That's why he killed him.
I hope they don't silence him.
I don't think people will give in to these ridiculous, ridiculous lies.
God.
You know, you can't say that every single time.
Number one, oh, Israel moves the sun.
Yo, no, well, here's what Israel does, false flags and they kill a bunch of people and they kill their own people.
Yes.
So that scumbags like him, like this unreal.
It's like if there was a somebody was eaten in the neighborhood and Jeffrey Dahmer lives there, we can't say it was this cannibal who did it.
You're the ones who are always the problem.
Always.
Israel.
Yes.
Not the Jews.
Israel.
Not the Jews.
You see how he links himself to all the Jews?
That's scumbag.
Yeah, that's the cloak that he hides behind.
It's disgusting that he like shields himself with Judaism.
Yes, he's a scumbag.
So that appearance was just one of several interviews and statements the prime minister dedicated to Kirk in the wake of his killing in an effort to frame the late conservative leader's legacy in a uniformly pro-Israel light.
The major public relations push has occurred while Netanyahu wages a military campaign on seven fronts, punctuated by a regional assassination spree that most recently reached into the heart of Qatar, a U.S. ally, in a September 10th Twitter ex-post eulogizing the conservative leader.
The Israeli prime minister described a recent phone conversation with Kirk.
He said, I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to Israel.
Sadly, that visit will not take place.
I heard Charlie turned him down.
So here is because they were calling him anti-Semitic.
This is why Benjamin Netanyahu, him call, this is like giving Robert Maxwell a hero's funeral in Israel, what he's doing.
Because two, three weeks ago, they were calling him anti-Semitic because Dave Smith, my friend, the Jew Dave Smith was on.
And they're calling Charlie Kirk suddenly anti-Semitic.
Yeah, that's funny, right?
So here's Benjamin Netanyahu, one of the posts that he put up.
So Charlie Kirk was murdered for speaking truth and defending freedom, a lion-hearted friend of Israel.
He fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization.
I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to Israel.
Sadly, that visit will not take place.
We lost an incredible human being.
His boundless pride in America and his valiant belief in free speech will leave a lasting impact.
Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk.
So four days before the assassination, frustration among pro-Israel commentators bubbled over in public during a Fox News interview in which Ben Shapiro launched a chilling attack on Kirk without naming him.
Quote, the problem with a big tent is that you may end up with many clowns inside.
Shapiro told Fox host and fellow Zionist gatekeeper Mark Levin and an apparent critique of TPUSA.
Just because you're saying somebody votes Republican, that doesn't mean they ought to be the preacher at the front of the church.
They're not the person that ought to be leading the movement.
If they are spending all day criticizing the president of the United States as covering up a Mosad rape ring or being a tool of the Israelis for hitting a Iranian nuclear facility, when Kirk took his usual place at the front of the church four days later, he was cut down by a sniper's bullet.
Within 24 hours of Kirk's death, Shapiro announced that he would be launching his own campus speaking tour, vowing, quote, we're going to pick up that blood phone where Charlie left it.
Yeah.
So, and then here's Tommy Borum.
I'm not familiar with him.
They would, if Charlie turned heel on Israel, they would have some, they would have someone shoot him at an open air event and they would have some idiot groiper with a genetically anomalous issue there to be the Patsy Fall guy, part of why you never make a deal with the devil in the first place.
That sums it up very nicely, what he said.
That sums it up just perfectly.
Yeah.
Max Blumenthal, like I said, Max Blumenthal waves.
Shout out to Max and Anya.
And Anya Parent Pal, both of them weighing in on it.
Makes my wild speculation feel very confident now because they're usually right.
Oh, and Ben's going to replace him, that popular guy.
Yes.
And let's not even get started with that, but the idea that Ben is so swiftly, after criticizing him just days ago, after going after Charlie and trashing him publicly, again, not naming him, but still everybody knew who he was talking about.
So now days later, be like, I'm going to pick up his bloodstained microphone and continue his work.
Shut up, Jesse Jackson with the bloody Martin Luther King shirt.
So gross.
Yeah, this is the other thing, though.
It doesn't necessarily have to be Mossad because these are Zionist billionaires, you know, the mega group you've heard of.
So this is just gangsters.
Like Israel could have it formed out.
I mean, they do do it themselves.
It's just funny.
They're real hands-on with their vicious crimes, but it doesn't necessarily mean the Messiah.
I'm not saying, but I'm saying it was on behalf of Israel.
I have no doubt about that.
Because that scumbag billionaire they're talking about that inflates drug prices, and that's how he got that $9 billion.
And what Tucker asked about.
All that MK Ultra stuff is proprietary technology that corporations have and private entities have.
Just like if you're rich enough, you could have Pegasus software.
So don't think they couldn't have gone to one of these people and had them, you know, pass word down.
That's why they say Epstein didn't work for Massad, because they're trying to use like the cutouts.
Plausible deniability.
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So the Gray Zone's doing great work on this Venezuela drug problem.
You know, Trump is pretending that the reason why he wants to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela is to fight drugged cartels.
But it turns out the drug cartels aren't coming from Venezuela.
The drug cartels are actually coming from other countries and the CIA.
And the Trump administration accuses Nicholas Maduro of leading the now-defunct cartel of the Sons.
That's what it was called, the Cartel of the Sons.
Diego Secura explains here how the CIA directed its top Venezuelan asset to ship tons of cocaine into United States cities during the 1990s.
The CIA asset was known as the leader of Cartel of the Sons.
You want to hear it?
Here's a little bit of it.
There's this load of cocaine that was found in the Miami International Airport by the DEA that actually led back to Venezuela.
And it led back to Brigadaire General Ramon Guillen, which was actually the CIA's man here in Venezuela back then.
And it was the guy that was actually doing all the indictments on behalf of working with the CIA was actually acknowledged by the time as the most trusted CIA asset in Venezuela back then.
So when they did find the cocaine in the city and they can trace it back to Venezuela, it was the CIA asset in Venezuela.
Wow, they have this.
People are the same everywhere you go, Jimmy.
So here, and even 60 Minutes did a report on it.
You want to hear 60 Minutes report on it?
Listen to this.
A ton of cocaine, pure cocaine worth hundreds of millions, is smuggled into the United States.
Sound familiar?
Not the way this ton of cocaine got here.
According to what the former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration told Mike Wallace, this drug shipment got here courtesy of what he calls drug trafficking by the CIA in partnership with the Venezuelan National Guard.
While rumors of CIA involvement in drug trafficking have circulated for years, no one in the U.S. government has ever before publicly charged the CIA with this kind of wrongdoing.
And it's not the kind of accusation anyone in government would make without thinking long and hard.
I mean, I understand what you're saying.
A ton of cocaine was smuggled into the United States of America by the Venezuelan National Guard?
Well, in cooperation with the CIA?
That's what, that's exactly what appears to have happened.
Until last month, Judge Robert Bonner was the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA.
And Judge Bonner explained to us that only the head of the DEA is authorized to approve the transportation of any illegal narcotics like cocaine into this country, even if the CIA is bringing it in.
Let me put it this way, Mike.
If this has not been approved by DEA or an appropriate law enforcement authority in the United States, then it's illegal.
It's called drug trafficking.
It's called drug smuggling.
So what you're saying, in effect, is the CIA broke the law.
Simple as that.
I don't think there's any other way you can rationalize around it.
So that's the head of the DEA saying the people who are bringing drugs into the United States and trafficking them are the CIA.
Oh.
Not even working in conjunction with the DEA.
They're just doing it themselves.
Assuming, as I think we can, that there was some knowledge on the part of the CIA, at least some participation in approving or condoning this to be done.
Judge Bonner says he came to that conclusion after a two-year secret investigation conducted by the DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility in cooperation with the CIA's own Inspector General.
And what reason did the CIA have for promoting this drug smuggling?
Well, the only rationale that's ever been offered is that this would lead to some valuable drug intelligence about the Colombian cartels.
Over half of the Colombian drug cartel's cocaine crosses the border with Venezuela on its way to the United States and Europe.
Back in the 1980s, the CIA was mandated by then President.
Hang on, he's coming.
Hold on.
Reagan to develop intelligence on the Colombian drug cartels.
And so the CIA, with Venezuela's Guardia Nacional or National Guard, set up an undercover operation, a drug smuggling operation in Venezuela that could handle the transshipment of the Colombian cartel's cocaine on its way to market.
So the CIA is setting up drug smuggling inside Venezuela.
And the idea is because we want to catch the people in Colombia.
The plan was to infiltrate the cartel, and it worked.
Well, the CIA National Guard undercover operation quickly accumulated this cocaine, over a ton and a half, that was smuggled from Colombia into Venezuela inside these trucks and then was stored here at the CIA-financed Counter-Narcotics Intelligence Center in Caracas.
The center's commander and the CIA's man in Venezuela was National Guard General Ramon Guillien Davilal.
I tried to work together with them.
I was always aware that they were not telling me everything they were doing.
Annabelle Grimm was a DEA agent with 18 years experience when she was made agent in charge in Caracas.
And she says that the CIA station chief James Campbell and this man, Mark McFarland, the CIA officer in charge at the center, told her that to keep the undercover smuggling operation credible, they had to keep the cartel happy.
And the way to do that was simple.
Deliver their dope, untouched by U.S. law enforcement, to the cartel's distributors, their dope dealers in the United States.
The CIA and the Guardia Nacional wanted to let cocaine go on into the traffic without doing anything.
They wanted to let it come up to the United States.
No surveillance, no nothing, Mike.
Now, but you weren't going to stop them in Miami or Houston or wherever.
These drugs were simply going to go to the United States and then go into the traffic and eventually reach the streets.
That's what they wanted to do, yes.
And we had very, very lengthy discussions.
I told them what the U.S. law was and the fact that we could not do this.
So here you've got Jim Campbell, Chief of Station, who knows about this.
Mark McFarland, CIA officer, knows about this and are stimulating this business of sending what are uncontrolled deliveries of drugs, smuggling drugs into the United States, right?
Right.
Why in the world did they want to do that?
As they explained to me that this would enable them to gain the traffickers' confidence, keep their informant cool, and it would result in future seizures of larger quantities of drugs.
And also, they hoped to, I guess, they thought they were going to get Pablo Escobar at the scene of the crime or something, which I found personally ludicrous.
But if Annabelle Grimm thought this was ludicrous, the CIA station chief James Campbell did not.
He enlisted the assistance of CIA headquarters in Washington to get approval for the drug shipments.
And his bosses at the CIA in Washington went over Annabelle Grimm's head directly to her bosses at DEA headquarters in Washington.
They made this proposal, and we said, no, no way.
We will not permit this.
It should not go forward.
And then, apparently, it went forward anyway.
The joint DEA-CIA investigation we mentioned earlier confirmed that over a ton of cocaine made its way from the counter-narcotic center in Caracas to the streets of the United States.
And they discovered that at one point, General Dienne's National Guard tried to ship 1,500 kilos at once.
They were not successful in that because apparently the package they had put together was too large.
It wouldn't fit on the plane.
General Duan admits to the bungled operation.
It was too big for the airplane door because the plane was a 707.
The box was too big to get into the airplane?
$30 million worth of cargo, drugs.
All these officials, the Venezuelans, the Americans, the Colombians, all so stupid that they don't have a box that's small enough to fit inside their own airplane.
The traffickers made a mistake with the plane.
Is it possible that General Deen was doing this on his own without the knowledge of the CIA?
I would find it very difficult for several reasons to believe that they did not know what was going on.
They built, they ran, they controlled that center.
General Guillain and his officers didn't go to the bathroom without telling Mark McFarland or the CIA what they were going to do.
The drug smuggling operation finally unraveled nearly a year after Annabelle Grimm says she told the CIA and General Guillain that it was illegal to send drugs uncontrolled into the U.S. Then, a shipment arrived at Miami's International Airport and was seized coincidentally by U.S. Customs.
Customs traced those drugs back to the Venezuelan National Guard.
But General Guillain told us that operation had been approved by U.S. authorities.
Look, what I see here is that there is a problem between the CIA and the DEA, and perhaps they are trying to find a false guy who is General Guillain.
If I had anything to do with illegal drug trafficking, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you.
General Duenne is right about one thing.
He could travel to New York to talk to us about Judge Bonner's charges only because he had already been granted immunity from prosecution in that DEA CIA Inspector General's investigation.
So we confronted the general with this document, a report from that investigation that reads like his confession.
Guillen lost his composure and when directly confronted concerning his involvement in the unauthorized and illegal shipment of cocaine to the U.S., confesses.
Look, I say that that confession is not true.
In that report, there are a lot of lies.
It's useless.
I have not confessed anywhere.
So you're clean.
Clean until the last day God has for me.
So far, there has been no legal action against General Guillen.
As for the CIA officers, well, Judge Bonner may believe that someone at the agency must have known, but the CIA and the U.S. Department of Justice say they have discovered, quote, no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
However, the CIA did acknowledge to us that the investigation, quote, did reveal instances of poor judgment and management, leading to disciplinary actions for several CIA officers.
Mark McFarland, the CIA officer in charge of the counter-narcotic center, resigned from the agency last year.
We tried to talk to him, but he told us the CIA would take legal action against him if he violated his secrecy agreement with the agency.
As for James Campbell, the CIA station chief, we learned he was brought back to the U.S. and promoted, but then he retired.
Campbell did tell us, quote, I've devoted my life to my country and feel like a victim in this thing.
This happened without our knowledge.
We were there to prevent it.
While CIA headquarters declined to answer our questions on camera, off camera, a CIA official involved in the Venezuelan cocaine operation did.
We talked to some people at CIA.
They say, the DEA does the same thing all the time.
They let drugs walk.
They let drugs into the traffic look the other way to further a more important goal.
It's absolutely untrue.
And frankly, maybe it displays the kind of ignorance that makes the CIA dangerous in this area.
It is wrong for an agency of the U.S. government to facilitate and participate in allowing drugs to reach the streets.
And apparently, if the CIA doesn't understand that, then I would be concerned that this kind of incident could be repeated.
The CIA advised us they had recently briefed the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Dennis DiConcini, and they urged us to talk with him, apparently believing he would defend the operation.
It was an operation that I don't think they should have been involved in.
No question, the drugs got in.
I don't doubt that the drugs got in here.
You'd think that maybe the agency would want to say, okay, we made a mistake.
I think they made a mistake.
And, you know, you hope when these mistakes are made that, hell, not too many more of them are, particularly when the mistake is a large quantity of substance like this that can kill people and probably did.
We asked the senator why no one in the CIA has been prosecuted for bringing in the drugs.
You would seem to think there would be a good case there.
Case against against an American who knew anything about it.
But, you know, I've been a prosecutor.
Mike, and you have to look at the case, convince a jury or a judge not to throw the case out.
The Justice Department reviewed that, and they decided not to prosecute these individuals from the agency.
And what about the vaunted intelligence gathered from the whole CIA anti-drug paper in Venezuela?
Well, let me tell you, first of all, I don't know of any because from what I know, no valuable intelligence of any kind was produced from this operation.
So the whole idea was we're going to get intelligence so we could go after even bigger and stop big, and they got none.
Zero.
So all they were doing was just shipping, they were just trafficking cocaine.
The CIA.
They became the biggest drug.
They took over all of the drug traffic during the 90s.
I said Kathy O'Brien's book, the goal was to do that, to take over all the cartels.
So all that bullshit about Mexico, that's your friends at the CIA, who, by the way, they protect us, I guess, from everything except cocaine and 9-11s.
Yes.
Intelligence was generated by the shipment of this thousand to 1,500 kilos.
Controlled or uncontrolled?
It was very possible.
Is someone wrong?
Really?
Who did you think?
What did you find out?
Right now, a truck driver and a truck that were trafficking drugs into Venezuela are under arrest.
There was another truck and two similar van types were also caught.
So what you're saying is that you captured three or four or five truck drivers.
I'm asking about intelligence in the United States that was generated by the actual shipment of these kilos into the United States.
Now, whether or not here in the United States they arrested anyone or the intelligence gathered was useless, that is the responsibility of the Americans.
After speaking to us, General Guillain traveled to Miami where federal agents found him and served him with a subpoena to appear before a newly revived grand jury investigation into the CIA's cocaine.
But the word out of Venezuela is that the government there will not permit him to testify.
I look at that thousand kilos, at least that thousand kilos.
I look at the fact, I mean, like you're a taxpayer, and that was U.S. taxpayer money that built that center, that funded it, that maintained it.
And I really take great exception to the fact that that thousand kilos came in funded by U.S. taxpayer money, and it hit the streets of the United States.
I find that particularly appalling when you look at all the damaged lives that thousand kilos represents.
And what happened to the tens of millions that were paid for the CIA's cocaine?
Well, General Guillain insists he didn't get any of it.
But Judge Bonner says one thing is certain, the Colombian cartel did.
They got their money once the dope made it to our streets.
Meanwhile, both the House and Senate Intelligence Oversight Committees continue to ask questions about what they call, quote, the very serious charges.
So the United States CIA used the military in Venezuela to get Colombian cocaine distributed in the United States, and all the profit from that went back to the Colombian cartels.
And they never stopped.
And they never stopped doing that, right?
According to Kurt, you read that book?
Tell me about it.
Well, I mean, you already know a ron contra in the Panama.
This is back during Reagan.
Right.
So Reagan, that chump who was like a puppet of them, I guess.
I don't know why Kathy O'Brien forgives him.
He's a scumbag to me.
Their whole goal was to take over the drug cartels, and they did.
And I don't know when this was, when did Gary Webb died?
Gary Webb died in 2002, I think.
And this is from the 90s.
How crazy this is.
Yeah.
Over this entire time, it's public knowledge the CIA did this.
And there was somewhat inter-office discipline, and that's all that happened.
And then you hear these people bellowing about a drug problem.
Like, were those 11 people they killed CIA by any chance on that boat in Articles, Venezuela?
I hope they were CIA people because then you know you got them.
You would have to suspect.
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So now you know all this stuff.
It says your own government working against you.
And now Donald.
I didn't know this and didn't know this.
And now, Donald, what's that?
I already knew this and didn't know this.
Like, there's always a new, obvious thing that's not a secret.
You could just find that will tell you what they did.
Yep.
You don't got to read anything.
It was obvious the whole time.
Obvious the whole time.
And so again, the idea that Donald Trump is going there to end the cartels or fight drugs is a complete fabrication.
You got John McCain trying to overthrow a sovereign government using war crimes to do it so that he could give the natural resources to the economic hitmen from the United States.
That's what this is.
Same old thing.
Who matter who you vote for?
You get John McCain.
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So, all right, I lost right.
This is a little bit lighter.
We're going to make fun of Zoran Mondani.
Want to do that?
Let's do that.
This is somebody that I called out from day one because I don't trust any politicians.
I'm very anti-electoral politics.
I think progressives are incredibly transparent.
I think this guy is incredible.
He's AOC 2.0.
He is AOC with a wiener.
Let's just be clear.
And it's so just readily, abundantly clear to me that he is a fraud and a phony.
And Jimmy earlier this week covered where he walked back his position on Palestine, which is exactly what Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez did too.
I had a lot of people get mad at me because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran on Palestinian rights.
It was something she was very vocal about.
It was something she was very passionate about.
It was on her website, all of the things, right?
And I think it was maybe 36 hours after she won her election and took office that Palestinian rights disappeared from her website and she suddenly had nothing else to say about it.
And in fact, I think she did an interview with, it might have been CBS, where she was directly confronted about it and asked about Palestine and Israel.
And she like threw up her hands and was like, I don't really know about that.
And I'm like, you have a degree in international relations and you ran on Palestinian rights.
Really?
But that he's doing the exact same, walking the exact same path that she walked, where he blows a bunch of smoke up your ass and pretends to be progressive, pretends to stand for all these leftist ideals.
And he's going to fight the system and he's going to fight the status quo.
And he's not.
And he was never going to.
And now he's hanging out with Bernie Sanders and AOC and he's, you know, hanging out with Zionists on a regular basis and he's walking back his position on Palestine.
Well, he's also walking back another one of his positions and he is now apologizing for calling the NYPD racist in 2020.
And this is something that he was also very vocal about.
He was very critical of the NYPD, who, by the way, is racist.
It's pretty clear just by the arrests and all of that stuff.
I mean, you can argue that that's the whole thing.
But this is not something that you should really have to walk back if it's something that you stand on.
And he very clearly doesn't stand on anything.
None of these people do.
They are opportunists.
He is an opportunist, opportunist, and he's going to say and do whatever happens to be politically advantageous in that moment.
And this is just another example of that.
So Zoran Mondani, the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City, said on Thursday that he intended to apologize for comments he made in 2020, calling the New York Police Department, quote, racist, anti-queer, and a major threat to public safety, end quote.
NYPD has long had issues, long had issues of police brutality, of racism, of corruption.
I mean, this is not a like shining example of institutional purity here.
It's not really controversial.
He said that the remarks which he wrote in June 2020 and a social media post in support of the defund the police movement were made after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a month earlier.
The comments were made, quote, at the height of frustration, he said in an interview with the New York Times, and were not reflective of his current campaign or, quote, my view of public safety and the fact that police will be critical partners in delivering public safety, end quote.
Mr. Momdani's post from 2020 has been recirculated by his political opponents who have used his previous criticism of the police to portray him as weak on issues of public safety.
Mr. Momdani, a New York state assemblyman, is far ahead of his three rivals who include Mayor Adams, a former police captain who has consistently placed forth in recent polling, which makes me giggle.
When he was asked if he should apologize to the city's police officers, he paused noticeably before answering.
He then went on to explain how his views had changed.
After he was asked again if he owed officers an apology, he said yes.
Mr. Momdani's statements on Thursday came amid recent attempts to reach out to the police rank and file in effort to address one of his biggest political vulnerabilities.
His past criticism of the police has fed the skepticism and even hostility expressed by many police officers who are wary of the changes he plans to make to the department.
But as Mr. Momdani, a Democratic socialist, really, began his long-shot bid to become the Democratic nominee for mayor last year, he abandoned some of his most provocative views, and they all do.
In recent months, he has sought to downplay others.
During the 30-minute interview Thursday, Mr. Momdani reiterated his plan to keep the department staffed at the budgeted level of 35,000, although the number of uniformed officers stands at 33,740, according to department figures.
Other candidates have said they would hire thousands more officers.
Mr. Momdani has vowed to create a department of community safety, which would dispatch mental health workers rather than the police to respond to 911 calls from people in crisis.
He contends that it would free up more police officers to tackle violent crimes like shootings and robberies.
And that is, to me, is a no-brainer.
How many times have we seen where somebody is in mental distress and they call the cops and the cops come and shoot them?
I mean, that's happened numerous times.
So having cops respond to those types of situations when they're very clearly not equipped to deal with them, they're not trained to deal with them.
They're not good at like de-escalation in the first place.
It's a bad idea.
So I don't have an issue with that proposal.
Mr. Momdani also said that he was bracing for President Trump to dispatch the National Guard to New York City, as we just talked about.
Quote, I think that it is inevitable that he will seek to deploy the National Guard in New York City.
I think it's incumbent upon all of us to be prepared for that as opposed to treating it as simply a possibility.
Until Thursday, Mr. Momdani had stopped short of an apology for his 2020 remarks, saying only that his past statements were, quote, out of step with his current position.
His vow on Thursday to apologize drew mixed responses from police union leaders.
Louis Turco, head of the Lieutenants' Union, which endorsed Mr. Adams, called Mr. Momdani's comments, quote, a good step, noting he made them on the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, quote, we all make mistakes, we all get caught up, but that's when you grow up and you say, I was wrong and I apologize and we move on.
The 2020 comments were demeaning and derogatory, said Lieutenant Turco, who has stated that he would not meet with Mr. Momdani until he had apologized.
Quote, you want to say the policies are racist or the policies are transphobic.
That's one thing, but not the membership, he said.
I'm pleased that he recognized that his words had a negative effect on the men and women of the NYPD, and he's recognizing that and he wants to apologize for it.
Scott Monroe, president of the Detectives Union, was not swayed by Mr. Momdani's comments, which he characterized as disgusting and pathetic.
Quote, he can apologize all he wants because this is an election year.
Right now, I don't think he's capable of keeping police officers safe in New York City.
Over the summer, 13 law enforcement unions endorsed Mr. Adams through the Police Benevolent Association, the city's largest law enforcement union, has yet to endorse any mayoral candidate.
Patrick Hendry, president of the union, which supported President Trump during the 2020 campaign, said that Mr. Mamdani's words of support were important, but needed to be backed up with action.
Quote, we need elected leaders who not only support cops on the campaign trail, but who will work with us every single day to improve our safety, quality of life, and compensation as we protect New York City.
In the interview, Mr. Mamdani said he was worried that President Trump and his allies had already used the killing of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday as an excuse to go after critics and activists on the left, which he absolutely has.
That video that he put out is crazy to me that he lists a bunch of political violence that's taken place over the course of the years, and it's only political violence towards right-wing people.
And he doesn't at all mention anything else.
And it's a very clearly one-sided, divisive, that's a wild position to take as the president.
He's very clearly trying to ramp up the chaos and violence instead of trying to tamper it down, which is interesting.
Quote, this is quite a terrifying time in our country, Mr. Mondani said, adding that leaders should be focusing on their quote shared humanity and not the intensification of a hostile atmosphere.
Since Mr. Kirk's fatal shooting in Utah, Mr. Mondani said he has received new threats on his own life, of course.
He said he is frightened for his staff and the people close to him, including the security officials assigned to guard him.
During the interview, which took place at the times, a security official stood sentry looking out across the newsroom.
The threats won't change how I campaign, he said.
It won't change how I move through the city that I love.
So this is par for the course.
And this is why I don't deal with electoral politics, because here's what happens.
Even if you are legitimate, even if you genuinely go into politics and you run for office and you have the best of intentions and you genuinely want to change things and you want to help people and you want to do all the right things, that's not how the system works.
So one of two things will happen.
If you happen to somehow sneak past with your idealism and your good intentions and all of that stuff and you get elected, one of two things will happen.
They will either force you to assimilate to the corruption, you have to acquiesce to the corruption, or they will find a way to push you out.
A la Dennis Kucinich.
They just gerrymandered him out of his own district.
His own party gerrymandered him out of his own district.
So that's how that works.
You cannot vote your way out of this stuff.
You cannot count on somebody like Zorhan Mamdani, who's very clearly a political opportunist, who is running for office for his own stuff.
He is AOC all over again.
And we're going to keep seeing these people pop up.
And it's frustrating to me and on both sides, both sides.
I hate the sides thing.
It's not left and right.
But you're going to see it on both sides.
And they're going to continue to push these people at you.
And a not insignificant portion of the population will fall for it over and over and over again.
The new shiny object, every election cycle will rope a whole bunch of people in and they're just going to keep you on the hamster wheel of electoral politics.
The system is broken.
The entire electoral system is broken front to back, top to bottom.
It is irredeemable.
And voting means precisely dick.
And I don't know if that could be any clearer than it is right now.
And yet we still have people.
There's still people who like got burned by Bernie Sanders, got burned by AOC, who are now supporting this jackhole.
It's mind-blowing to me that I just wonder how many times this happens to a person before your sense of skepticism kicks in.
It's a wild thing.
And I realize people are desperate and they really want to believe that somebody's coming to save us, but nobody's coming to save us, unfortunately.
There you have it.
Zorhan Mamdani is walking back yet another one of his positions that he was very strongly running on and talking about and held so dear.
And he's going to continue to do that.
And he's just going to keep hanging out.
Next thing you know, he's going to be calling Nancy Pelosi Mama Bear and walking through the park with Chuck Schumer, taking pictures for a photo op.
And he's just going to be another, he already is another AOC.
So there you go.
Zorhan Mamdani is not coming to save you guys.
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