Peter Schweizer of the Government Accountability Institute says Zohran Mamdani's likely election is a "dark echo" of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,974 people and injured thousands others.
During a recent appearance on Fox News Channel (video below), he revealed that Mamdani and his family are "joined at the hip" with the Qatari royal family, which gave sanctuary to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 1996.
"It was there that he started planning the 9/11 attacks," Schweizer told Mark Levin. "The FBI was looking for him because he had been involved in the 1993 World Trade Center attack as well as other terrorist attacks."
But instead of turning the Pakistani national over to the FBI, the royal family "tipped him off."
"They hid him and helped him to escape," Schweizer explained.
Mohammed was eventually captured in 2003 and has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006.
Over the years, the Al Thani family, which is linked to Hamas and Hezbollah but claims terrorism is a western invention, has given the Mamdanis millions of dollars. It has funded Mira Nair's film projects and has been campaigning for her son around the world. In fact, Zohran was on Qatari television just a few weeks ago.
His father, Mahmood Mamdani, sits on the advisory council of the recently formed London-based Gaza Tribunal, which accuses Israel of committing genocide. He is a professor at Columbia University who argues that every sovereign country is built on exclusion and sustained by domination and violence. He has called for a political future in which every nation state, including the United States, would be "deconstructed."
Those are the values that have influenced Zohran Mamdani toward democratic socialism.
But as Islamist networks cheer Mamdani's rise to power, American media outlets are ignoring the connection.
"You have this bizarre situation where a political candidate in New York speaks the language of jihad, is financially connected to the family that helped the 9/11 plotters get away so they could bring down the Twin Towers," Schweizer summarized.
He believes it would be "a tragedy" if the same people that were involved in what happened in 9/11 gain such a close ally in New York City Hall.
Schweizer cautions that this is part of a broader Islamist strategy to gain power "city by city," which he warns is a threat not just to New York, but to the entire country.
The election is just three weeks away, and polls continue to show Zohran Mamdani as the likely winner.
