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Miranda Devine: NYC needs a mayor who has our backs — not Zohran Mamdani, who sides with terror and crime

He didn’t quite order flags at One World Trade Center to be flown at half-staff to mourn Iran’s ayatollah, as the Babylon Bee predicted, but our Islamic Marxist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, did issue a statement taking Iran’s side against the US “illegal war of aggression.”

“Americans do not want this,” he posted on social media.

He must be mad that President Trump didn’t give him a heads-up on the Iran attack during their bro-mantic visit in the Oval Office Friday. As if.

Like his fellow radical Dems — Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom and AOC — Mamdani failed to read the room.

Iranians in New York celebrating the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s demise were quick to flame the newbie pol on social media in response to his tone-deaf tweet.

“I don’t feel safe in New York listening to someone like you, Mamdani, who sympathizes with the regime that killed more than 30,000 unarmed Iranians in less than 24 hours,” responded Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad, who has been targeted for assassination by Iranian hitmen for her vocal criticism of the despotic regime.

“You stayed quiet when we have faced massacre, when Islamic Republic assassins were sent here in New York to kill us,” she posted on X. “Stay quiet now!”

Mamdani also claimed to be taking extra steps to ensure the safety of New Yorkers in the wake of Operation Epic Fury, as concern grows over the potential for retaliatory terrorist attacks.

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Former FBI Deputy Director Chris Swecker has warned of the risk of Iranian terrorist “sleeper cells” who sneaked across President Joe Biden’s border or “lone wolf” Muslim radicals sympathetic to the regime.

Sure enough, early Sunday morning, a Senegalese immigrant, reportedly wearing a “property of Allah” hoodie and an Iranian flag undershirt, opened fire at a bar in downtown Austin, Texas, murdering two people and wounding at least 14 others before he was shot dead. Now the FBI is investigating the former New York City resident for what they call a potential terrorism “nexus.”

In such perilous times, New York needs a mayor who has our backs.

But Mamdani is no Rudy Giuliani.

Instead, in the mere two months he has been in office, Mamdani has consistently sided with terrorist regimes against America and with criminals against law enforcement, whether ICE or the NYPD.

He expresses his disdain for the NYPD by starving it of funds and manpower; he just cut $22 million from the budget and canceled the extra 5,000 cops Eric Adams had budgeted to hire this year to offset high attrition due to a stampede of resignations and retirements.

Defunds his defenders

How can we have any faith that he even wants to keep us safe?

His first instinct is to treat cops with contempt, even while he and his wife are protected around the clock by a personal NYPD detail said to be 60 officers strong, costing taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

Two incidents over the last two weeks illustrate his shameful attitude.

First, distressed schizophrenic Jabez Chakraborty was shot and injured by an NYPD officer after he lunged at him with a 13-inch kitchen knife.

Cops had been called to his Queens home by his frightened family, and probably saved lives that day by risking their own skin. But Mandani made a big show of visiting Chakraborty in the hospital, where he was being treated for non-fatal injuries, insisted his handcuffs be removed, objected to assault charges filed by the Queens district attorney and repeatedly declared that he should not be prosecuted.

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But in a break from mayoral tradition, he did not visit the officers to offer them comfort and encouragement or to boost police morale.

By omission, he fed the anti-cop narrative that they had been heavy-handed and trigger-happy. I’d like to see how he would deal with a paranoid schizophrenic trying to kill him — without his NYPD detail.

Then, last week, when a mob at Washington Square Park pelted an NYPD patrol with snowballs reportedly containing rocks and ice shards, sending two officers to the hospital with facial lacerations and head injuries, Mamdani dismissed the attack as just “kids having a snowball fight,” implying that the cops were wimps.

The one perpetrator arrested so far is no kid. Gusmane Coulibaly is a 27-year-old repeat offender from The Bronx. He was initially charged with felony assault on a police officer, but Mamdani’s soft-on-crime soul brother, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, downgraded the charge to a minor misdemeanor and let him go.

Needless to say, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, her troops and their union are furious that the mayor is so feckless and disrespectful toward the men and women in blue who try to keep us safe under increasingly fraught conditions.

“The attitude of this mayor must change,” a retired NYPD sergeant of 21 years’ service told me.

“If not, I fear we may be grieving an outcome of an incident far more serious.”

By demoralizing, insulting and effectively defunding the NYPD, Mamdani has ensured that we are less safe than we should be.

The exodus from the NYPD will only accelerate, and he refuses to even replace the missing cops.

On every issue, the mayor is out of touch, out of his depth and out to lunch.

Dems lose game of ‘chicken’

Chuck Schumer and pals tried to brand President Trump with the juvenile acronym “TACO” for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” It hasn’t aged well.

Time and again, Trump has shown resolve and unflinching nerve where his predecessors have failed to act.

While his puny critics scream “fascist” and write hysterical essays in The Atlantic declaring Trump is an “authoritarian dictator,” he is methodically taking out actual authoritarian dictators who pose a threat to the world, whether it’s Venezuela’s Maduro or the late and unlamented Ayatollah Khamenei. Dictators of the world, you’re on notice.

At some point, the joke stopped being about Trump and started being about the miserable Trump-deranged sad sacks who keep getting it wrong. The man they hate with every fiber of their being keeps blowing up their narratives simply by doing his thing and loving America with an unabashed patriotism that can’t be faked.

The more they insist on TACO, the more the world sees him as the GOAT: the greatest of all time.

Albany wa$te on reparations

Kathy Hochul, Carl Heastie and Andrea Stewart-Cousins are quietly wasting $10 million of New York taxpayers’ money on a ridiculous inquiry about paying “reparations” to the descendants of slaves.

Then, when the inquiry is over, they’ll be asking for billions more to pay all the people they’ve been promising free checks, despite the fact that New York hardly had any slaves and abolished slavery early.

The New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies — stacked with leftist activists, and not a single white person — is holding its first public meeting for the year on Staten Island on March 21.

Please attend and share your thoughts. 

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