Pity poor Zohran Mamdani, who’s never HAD to answer real questions
Zohran Mamdani’s sheltered life — not just his privileged upbringing, but his whole adult “career” — is on display whenever someone asks him a real question, such as why he’s besties with a guy who thinks “America deserved 9/11.” NY Post Associate Editorial Page Editor Seth Barron shares this story.
That came Wednesday, at a Bronx event that the campaign staged to let him demand that somebody hand out free tickets to the World Cup Final: A reporter asked him why he hangs out with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who has “said some nasty stuff.”
The candidate missed a beat, then flashed his trademark grin and replied, “I’m here to talk about the World Cup.”
Sure, that’s what you want to talk about, Zoh, but reporters don’t work for you — nor do the voters.
Mamdani and his operatives act baffled whenever anyone asks a direct question about the candidate’s past statements and alliances.
Bring up his career-long demands to defund the police, close jails, arrest Bibi Netanyahu and offer sex-change operations to kids on demand, and Mamdani & Co. sing in unison, “That’s not his campaign!”
Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/09/11/opinion/pity-poor-zohran-mamdani-whos-never-had-to-answer-real-questions/
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