{"id":2453846,"date":"2025-06-30T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkers-rated-trumps-allegation-about-mamdani-false-but-the-footage-suggests-otherwise\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:38:47","slug":"fact-checkers-rated-trumps-allegation-about-mamdani-false-but-the-footage-suggests-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkers-rated-trumps-allegation-about-mamdani-false-but-the-footage-suggests-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checkers Rated Trump&#8217;s Allegation About Mamdani &#8216;False,&#8217; But the Footage Suggests Otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-checkers-rated-trumps-allegation-about-mamdani-false-but-the-footage-suggests-otherwise%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2453846&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the credibility of &#8220;fact-checkers,&#8221; specifically targeting the outlet PolitiFact for its assessment of Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City. it argues that politifact labeled claims of Mamdani being a communist as &#8220;false&#8221; without adequately considering a video in which mamdani discusses his socialist beliefs and goals, including &#8220;seizing the means of production.&#8221; The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >writer criticizes fact-checkers<\/a> for allegedly operating as biased political entities rather than impartial evaluators of truth, suggesting that they often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-anti-white-racism-governing-the-democrat-party-inevitably-spawns-violence\/\" title=\"The Anti-White Racism Governing The Democrat Party Inevitably Spawns Violence\">dismiss valid concerns<\/a> about leftist candidates while highlighting misleading narratives against conservative figures. the piece asserts that Mamdani&#8217;s statements contradict the findings of PolitiFact, calling into question the integrity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkers-rated-a-trump-t-shirt-as-similar-to-nazi-imagery-will-jill-biden-get-the-same-treatment\/\" title=\"... Rated A ... T-Shirt As \u2018Similar\u2019 To Nazi Imagery. Will Jill Biden Get The Same Treatment?\">fact-checking organizations<\/a> in contemporary political discourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Like the establishment media as a whole, so-called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair\/\" title=\"Media Ignores How Corruption Shaped Kamala Harris&#039; Affair\">fact checkers&#038;rdquo<\/a>; have destroyed whatever credibility they once had.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the &ldquo;fact-checking&rdquo; outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2025\/jun\/26\/donald-trump\/Zohran-Mamdani-democratic-socialist-communist-NYC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PolitiFact<\/a> has rated as &ldquo;false&rdquo; claims by President Donald Trump and others that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-breaks-silence-mamdani-democrats-crossed-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, winner of last week&rsquo;s Democratic mayoral primary in New York City, is a communist.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad PolitiFact apparently did not bother to examine a now-viral video of Mamdani in his own words.<\/p>\n<p>Like most leftist lies, the Mamdani &ldquo;fact check&rdquo; rested on the judgment of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/clarence-thomas-tucks-golden-takedown-called-experts-ruling-trans-procedures-minors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experts<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mamdani&rsquo;s platform calls for making transportation, housing and groceries more affordable, but experts say he hasn&rsquo;t espoused key tenets of communism, such as government takeover of industry and private property,&rdquo; per PolitiFact.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Oh really?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the mayoral hopeful himself would beg to differ.<\/p>\n<p>In a clip posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/congressman-points-huge-red-flags-mamdani-calls-investigation-denaturalization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mamdani<\/a> began by extolling the virtues of socialism. But he went further.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are also other issues that we firmly believe in,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;whether it&rsquo;s BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, a pro-Palestinian movement targeting Israel] or whether it&rsquo;s the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is not terrible AI, it&rsquo;s a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The end goal of seizing the means of production.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I can&rsquo;t believe this is actually happening. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KNxQV2QCX7\">pic.twitter.com\/KNxQV2QCX7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mazemoore\/status\/1939507833571246584?\">June 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In short, &ldquo;seizing the means of production&rdquo; fits the textbook definition of &ldquo;communism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/real-estate-agents-say-socialist-zohran-mamdanis-nyc-win-already-shocking-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mamdani<\/a> called this the &ldquo;end goal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, one clip alone, which had more than 1.2 million views on X as of Monday morning, despite being posted late Sunday, obliterates the entire pro-Mamdani &ldquo;fact check.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, should come as no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>After all, &ldquo;fact checkers&rdquo; have routinely exposed themselves as political operatives for the leftist establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, &ldquo;Interns Hired to Push Democrat Narratives&rdquo; would be a better name for the industry as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact, for instance, had this to say about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/iranian-cleric-issues-fatwa-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> and others referring to Mamdani as a communist:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Accusing Democrats of being communists or communist sympathisers is a frequent misleading attack line by some Republicans. It is a red scare tactic that has existed in U.S. politics for decades, but has been transformed by the success of some democratic socialists, including U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Totally impartial, right?<\/p>\n<p>No doubt we can find similar &ldquo;fact check&rdquo; commentaries about Democrats slandering Trump and his supporters as &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jewish-trump-supporters-completely-annihilate-nazi-rally-narrative-simple-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazis<\/a>,&rdquo; right?<\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t hold your breath.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, we have reasons to suspect that some &ldquo;fact checkers&rdquo; tailor their efforts to serve the Democratic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in 2017 Democrats promoted the myth that Trump had labeled neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, &ldquo;very fine people.&rdquo; On many occasions, former President Joe Biden cited that comment as the reason he ran for president.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;fact-checking&rdquo; outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biggest-story-year-fact-check-outlet-snopes-admits-lefts-major-claim-trump-false\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snopes<\/a> eventually debunked that myth &hellip; on June 20, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>If that date sounds familiar, it was exactly one week before the presidential debate between Trump and Biden in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-bidens-brain-collapses-debate-trump-sounds-lost-38-second-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> exposed his cognitive deficiencies to such a degree that not even the establishment media could cover for him any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Why would Snopes wait seven years to &ldquo;fact check&rdquo; an obvious lie then finally debunk it one week before Biden suffered that public humiliation? Could it be that Democrats already planned to move on from the president?<\/p>\n<p>If so, then the &ldquo;Interns Hired to Push Democrat Narratives&rdquo; got the memo just in time.<\/p>\n<p>Now they have decided to push the narrative that Mamdani amounts to a garden-variety socialist, not a communist.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad Mamdani&rsquo;s own words tell a different story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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For example, PolitiFact labeled as &#8220;false&#8221; claims by President Donald Trump and others that Zohran Mamdani, who recently won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City, is a communist. Unfortunately, PolitiFact seems to have overlooked a viral video where Mamdani expresses his views. Their assessment relied on expert opinions stating that while Mamdani advocates for affordable housing and transportation, he hasn&#8217;t endorsed key communist principles like government control of industry or private property<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2453847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mandani-v-Trump-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50510,34659,58170,56552,3634],"class_list":["post-2453846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-fact-check-2","tag-false-claims","tag-footage-evidence","tag-mamdani","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mandani-v-Trump-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453850,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453846\/revisions\/2453850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}