Mamdani Just Told New Yorkers to Protest Netanyahu and His Own Police Force Is Furious
Mamdani Just Told New Yorkers to Protest Netanyahu and His Own Police Force Is Furious
First Zohran Mamdani spent weeks threatening to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. Then he had to publicly admit he had no power to do it — one of the more humiliating climbdowns any major American mayor has made in recent memory. And his response to that humiliation was to pivot immediately to encouraging massive street protests against the Israeli Prime Minister during the UN General Assembly in September.
“I think one of the bedrocks of our city is protest… If anyone feels a level of frustration or opposition, protest is something that we will always respect. I leave it to New Yorkers themselves to make that decision,” Mandani said this week.
The NYPD is not impressed.
NYPD Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry didn’t mince words: “The mayor’s activist posturing puts police officers on the street in a terrible position. Protests during the UN General Assembly are nothing new, but when the mayor of the city is actively calling for demonstrations, violent agitators will assume they have permission to cause as much havoc as possible.”
He then added the detail that should make every New Yorker pay attention: the NYPD’s protest response is already “hamstrung by the dangerous lawsuit settlement the city signed over the PBA’s opposition.” Mamdani’s rhetorical gasoline is being poured on a situation where the fire department has already had its hoses cut.
The rank-and-file reactions were equally unsparing. One Manhattan cop noted that officers just came off six weeks of brutal overtime during the Knicks run and World Cup — and now their own mayor is engineering unnecessary chaos on top of it. A Brooklyn cop called Mamdani “nothing more than a cheap politician looking for cheap headlines” who knew perfectly well he never had the power to arrest Netanyahu and is now mobilizing the people most likely to turn a protest into a riot anyway. A department veteran put it most directly: “He should be governing the city and trying to keep the peace, instead of inciting a riot with his rhetoric. He is basically telling the crazy people to do what they want, and there will be no repercussions. If a cop gets hurt, it will be on him.”
Detective’s Endowment Association President Scott Munro added the line that cuts to the heart of the entire Mamdani experiment: he “still acts like he’s leading a protest movement instead of running the largest city in America.” He’s inviting agitators who look for “confrontation and violence” — and it will be the detectives who pay the price when those agitators show up in September.
Munro’s suggested response was appropriately pointed: maybe the 96 unions in the New York State Public Safety Alliance should show up outside Gracie Mansion and let Mamdani experience firsthand what it feels like when someone encourages protests without guardrails. A lawful demonstration, of course.
Here’s the summary: Mamdani failed to arrest Netanyahu, so he’s encouraging his supporters to protest Netanyahu instead — while the police force he spent his entire campaign attacking is stuck managing whatever chaos his rhetoric produces.
He’s not governing New York City. He’s using it as a stage.
The cops doing the actual work know the difference. And they’re done being quiet about it.
Supreme Court Says YES - Hillary Clinton Gets Brutal News After President Donald Trump is Now Taking Legal Battle...
They may have been friends in the past, but ever since they faced off in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump and former First Lady Hillary Clinton have been at war with each other, figuratively speaking.
Now, their fight is about to escalate to the nation’s highest court.
Trump is continuing his long-running legal battle against Clinton by asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that dismissed his civil conspiracy claims and imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions.
Justice Clarence Thomas this week granted Trump’s request for additional time to file a petition asking the Supreme Court to hear the case.
Trump now has until Sept. 9 to submit his petition in Trump v. Clinton, which stems from allegations that Clinton and others helped promote claims that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia.
The extension is a routine procedural action and does not reflect any opinion on the merits of the case.
As the justice assigned to matters arising from the relevant federal circuit, Thomas handles administrative requests such as filing extensions.
The Supreme Court will decide whether to hear the appeal only after the petition is filed, and at least four justices must vote to grant review before the case can proceed.
Trump’s legal team filed the extension motion on July 23 at the Supreme Court.
In it, his lawyers argued the forthcoming petition will raise “exceptionally important” issues and that the appellate ruling and sanctions order “carries with it profound impact on the Presidency, and the nation as a whole.”
Trump’s appeal is expected to focus not only on the underlying allegations surrounding the Russia investigation but also on the broader legal question of when courts may impose sanctions against a president and his attorneys for filing civil litigation.
The federal appeals court that reviewed the case sharply criticized the lawsuit, concluding that many of the legal arguments advanced by Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, lacked merit.
The court upheld sanctions totaling nearly $1 million against Trump, Habba, and her New Jersey-based law firm.
The sanctions represent a significant financial penalty, and Trump’s appeal is expected to address both the underlying lawsuit and the broader authority of courts to impose substantial sanctions on litigants whose claims are found to lack legal merit.
Trump’s original complaint alleged that Hillary Clinton and others conspired to promote a false narrative linking his 2016 presidential campaign to Russian election interference.
The district court dismissed those claims, and the federal appeals court upheld that decision. The filing seeking additional time to petition the Supreme Court did not identify the specific appellate circuit that issued the ruling.
The Clinton lawsuit is one of several cases Trump is currently asking the Supreme Court to review.
In a separate defamation lawsuit against CNN over the network’s use of the phrase “big lie” to describe Trump’s claims regarding the 2020 election, Thomas also granted Trump additional time to file his petition. That filing is due Aug. 14.
Trump is also continuing his legal challenge in the E. Jean Carroll case.
After the Supreme Court declined to hear his initial appeal last month, he filed a petition for rehearing on July 8, asking the justices to reconsider the damages award entered against him, which the high court agreed to do in an unusual move.
Together, the three petitions place multiple Trump-related legal disputes before the court, each involving distinct legal questions ranging from sanctions and defamation to civil liability.
Clinton has not publicly commented on the Supreme Court’s decision to grant Trump additional time to file his petition.
Although she is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, the court filings do not indicate that she took any separate action in connection with the extension request.
The additional defendants identified in Trump’s original complaint were not specified in the available court records.
The lawsuit stems from Trump’s longstanding contention that allegations linking his 2016 presidential campaign to Russian election interference were knowingly promoted through false or misleading claims.
NEW: Election Overturned After Recount Reveals Trump-Backed Candidate As Victor
Republican Paula Copenhaver pulled off a stunning comeback Monday after an Indiana recount erased incumbent State Sen. Spencer Deery’s razor-thin primary victory, handing her the GOP nomination by three votes.
The Indiana Recount Commission formally certified Copenhaver as the winner after reviewing the District 23 race, finding she received 6,332 votes to Deery’s 6,329. The outcome shifted after eight ballots that had originally been counted for Deery were rejected.
During the hearing, commission members said several ballots were thrown out because of “clerical errors” made by election officials.
The decision means the election was overturned months after Deery was initially declared the winner of the May 5 Republican primary by just three votes.
Copenhaver sought the recount on May 18, arguing that “illegal voting by unqualified voters” had undermined the integrity of the election after she narrowly lost to the first-term senator.
The race attracted statewide attention because Copenhaver had President Donald Trump’s endorsement as part of a broader effort to unseat Republican incumbents in the Indiana Senate.
Trump announced in February that he would back challengers running against Deery and several other GOP state senators who opposed redistricting.
Election night produced one of the closest contests in Indiana. Initial returns showed Deery with 50.01% of the vote and Copenhaver with 49.99%, prompting both candidates to claim victory as the margin remained razor thin.
Deery, who was first elected to the Indiana Senate in 2022, was ultimately certified the winner by three votes after the original canvass. Monday’s recount reversed that outcome, with Copenhaver finishing ahead by the same three-vote margin.
Vance, Labor Dept. To Crackdown On Fraudulent Migrant Workers In U.S.
Vice President JD Vance has received another very important task from President Donald Trump to accomplish.
And already he’s wading right into it.
Vance and the Department of Labor’s inspector general on Wednesday announced a new investigation into alleged abuse of U.S. work visas by foreign nationals, describing it as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to combat fraud.
Speaking at an anti-fraud event in Milwaukee, Vance said Labor Department officials had issued dozens of subpoenas as part of the investigation, which he said is intended to ensure that “American jobs … go to American workers and not foreign fraudsters.”
Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito told the New York Post that investigators believe the alleged schemes have cost the U.S. medical industry hundreds of millions of dollars, while also affecting other employment sectors.
He said some of the operations under investigation are believed to involve forced-labor networks and human trafficking organizations.
Labor’s Office of Inspector General has already “uncovered widespread schemes in which employers and labor brokers submitted fraudulent applications, exploited foreign workers through coercive wage-kickback arrangements, and undercut American workers by flooding the market with below-wage labor.”
Department of Homeland Security assessments so far have found as much as 21 percent of the H-1B petitions were fraudulent, The Post reported.
D’Esposito also told Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria that the investigation will examine alleged abuses involving both H-1B visa holders and recipients of employment-based green cards.
He said investigators are reviewing cases in which foreign workers may have improperly displaced American employees or obtained immigration benefits through fraudulent means, The Post said.
“This is another example where fraud is fueling violent crime,” D’Esposito said, adding that the visa fraud “is tied to cartels, is tied to transnational gangs.”
“This is not just people working in factories or actual labor,” he added. “These are people working in medical facilities and doctors’ offices that are actually putting people in harm’s way.”
At an event in Milwaukee, Wis., Vance said the probe will root out fraudsters who “undercut” American workers.
“This is a visa program that was set up to ensure that if you were a brilliant technology person or a brilliant scientist or a brilliant doctor, you could come to the United States and get access to this visa program,” he told attendees.
“But you know, what’s happening way too much is that big corporations and fraudsters overseas are using this program to undercut the wages of American workers,” he added, according to The Post.
“What we’re doing in the Trump administration, we’re saying, ‘No more,’” the vice president continued.
“If you are trying to take advantage of that visa program, you are not allowed in to the United States of America.”
The H-1B visa program allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations that typically require specialized knowledge and at least a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
The PERM labor certification process is the first step for many foreign nationals seeking employment-based permanent residency, allowing employers to sponsor workers for green cards after demonstrating they cannot readily fill the position with qualified U.S. workers.
According to the Pew Research Center, approximately 73% of H-1B recipients come from India.
More than half hold a master’s degree, and the largest share work in fields such as computer programming, data communications, software development and technical support, noted The Post.
Major technology companies, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple, are among the largest employers of H-1B visa holders.
Foreign workers admitted through the program are also employed across the health care, manufacturing and higher education sectors, said The Post.
California, Texas, New York, Illinois and Washington receive the largest share of approved H-1B petitions, according to federal data.
The number of approved H-1B petitions reached a high of 442,425 in 2022 during the Biden administration, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.
