By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
Long before he became the New York mayoral candidate favored to win election in the Big Apple, Socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani pursued a career as a rapper, under the stage name “Young Cardamom,” according to a June Rolling Stone report, and he allegedly appeared in a violent video waving a pistol.
That’s a polar shift from politician Mamdani, who wrote on “X” in May 2022, “We need to ban all guns.”
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that Mamdani has vowed, if elected, to launch a national gun control crusade.
“As mayor, I will lead calls to ensure that we pass the legislation necessary beyond New York, such that every New Yorker can rest assured that we need not prepare for the next iteration of this horrific mass shooting,” he reportedly stated in reaction to a July shooting in a Manhattan business office which claimed four lives.
The Free Beacon report, headlined, “You’ll Pray for Death’: Gun-Control Enthusiast Zohran Mamdani Brandished Handgun in 2016 Music Video,” digs into Mamdani’s past as a rapper.
Near the end of that report, the Free Beacon notes, “The Democratic nominee for mayor’s rap career has already earned him scrutiny. In 2017, he released a song called ‘Salaam’ in which he praised the ‘Holy Land Five.’ The song references the five leaders of the defunct Holy Land Foundation convicted in 2008 of providing millions of dollars in material support to Hamas. The ‘Holy Land Five’ were also found liable in 2004 for the death of a 17-year-old U.S. citizen murdered by Hamas on a trip to Israel.”
Meanwhile, Politico on Thursday delved into how Mamdani “has energized the Big Apple — and polarized the nation’s largest city just as quickly.”
The Politico story notes that Mamdani’s campaign has relied heavily on his criticism of President Donald Trump. But Trump is not on the ballot, and it appears the Democrat/Socialist rising star has adopted the same strategy as other Democrats who will not run on their own records by portraying their campaign as a crusade against the president. Politico describes Mamdani as “a 34-year-old political star with zero executive experience.”
Mamdani is also alarming to establishment politicians, Politico intimated. “Longtime New York political figures have been taken aback by the willingness of many voters to swing behind a nominee whose candidacy a year ago was considered a pipe dream,” the report says.
And now the violent video has surfaced, creating more than an idle suggestion Mamdani is a hypocrite.
