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Trace Gallagher: Zohran Mamdani not truthful about what 'intifada' means

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July 18, 2025 2:33 pm

Trace Gallagher: Zohran Mamdani not truthful about what 'intifada' means

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July 18, 2025 2:33 pm

Zoran Mamdani, a mayoral candidate in New York City, has been accused of backing the phrase 'globalize the intifada,' which is seen as a call for violence against Jews. The controversy has sparked debate within the Democratic Party, with some accusing Mamdani of promoting anti-Semitic views. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump's approval ratings have risen despite the Epstein scandal, with many Republicans defending him against criticism from Democrats.

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This show proudly sponsored by Real American Freestyle Wrestling. You know, he was asked repeatedly to condemn or whether he would condemn this phrase globalize the intifada. Obviously, there are a lot of Jews, non-Jewish, live in New York City. A lot of folks concerned about his inability or unwillingness to condemn. That phrase, how do you feel about that phrase?

Look, it's not something I would say, and I think he has said that he will not say it. He will discourage others from saying it. Would you condemn it yourself? Look, I don't do that. I'm not in any part of that.

You don't condemn the phrase? Of course I do. Look, it's a i this is not the way we should talk. If this encourages violence in any way, then I am opposed to it. I am a no-violence person.

I think it's a very, very bad idea. Globalize the intifada is a violent phrase. It means globalize what we saw happen in Israel, but make it a nationwide thing. If Senator Elizabeth Warren does not want to talk about Mondami, who happens to be the most interesting thing in the Democratic Party and the most challenging, don't do the interview. Who told her to do CNBC?

That's her conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin, who says, Hey, I'm Jewish, not too happy about this guy winning the Democratic primary. What's it like 3,000 miles away? Where Trace Gallagher hosts his show as Ankara Fox News at night, weekdays at 11 o'clock Eastern Time.

So, Trace, how much are you into this story? We cover it every night. I mean, it's a big story because it's a big deal in the Democratic Party, and you bring up the whole globalize the intifada. And for the record, we should note that Zuran Mamdani never said the phrase, but he backs the phrase and he backs the idea of the phrase. And that's the thing.

And that's his whole point: he's like, listen, I think this is about world equity. And equality. That's what he thinks the phrase means. And everybody else is like, no, it means basically, you know, you're in favor of eradicating the Jews. And that's exactly what the phrase means.

Intifada is holy war. It's this whole thing where you're like, hey, I back the idea, but I would never say the phrase. It's the same thing, Brian. The very same thing. And the fact that until he met with those business leaders a couple of days ago and said, okay, I'm going to back away from the phrase.

I'm going to back away and I'm going to discourage people from using it. You know, like, you're going to discourage people from saying, let's kill all the Jews? I mean, are you kidding me? You know, I'm thinking, I'm going to discourage people from saying they want to eradicate the Jewish population.

Well, let me ask something, Trace. Wouldn't this guy be a dream to run against? Oh, my God. Why would Cuomo not bringing this up? I mean, two weeks before the primary, I thought Cuomo was up by 15, 20 points.

And I talked to somebody involved in local politics, and they said, no, he's not. It's one or two. I go, no, no, no. I've never seen anything close.

So. He must have got the real polls, but yet he never thought this guy wants to legalize billionaires. He wants to be head of a city that is the financial capital of the world, doesn't like capitalism. This guy wants to arrest Betanetanyahu and Modi if they come to town. Why do analysts have to do this, not an opponent?

Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right. We went through and did every one of his points, his policies. And you think there's probably 15 or 16 of them, from defund the police to no-cash bail to building communes to kind of gathering up all public property and building communes with them. And every single one of his policies has been tried before. The no-cash bail was tried in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

They had to get rid of the DAs because it was such a disaster. Defund the police, as we all know, was tried. He wants to try it again. It was a disaster. Every one of his policies has been tried.

Who arrests that? Right. I mean, city-run grocery stores? I mean, the city is so good at doing things, Brian. I mean, no nobody does anything better than the city.

Who's going to have the best grocery store in the world? Not Bezos. It's going to be the City of New York.

So this guy just answers every question when he's asked, and he's not even trying to evade insight, you know, I was young. Right. You know, until I got into the assembly, you know, trying he's not trying to know what they do now. They're just trying to keep him away from people. Right.

So they bring him out the back door. They chill, they tell deceptive meetings. We already went through that with one Democrat, didn't we? And he was called the former president of the United States. The funniest thing about it is when you look at his handlers, they're looking out in the audience, they're looking at the media, and they know the next media person who's going to ask a tough question.

So what they're doing now is they're preemptively pulling him off stage. It's not a matter of, well, we're going to let him answer a question. If he gets in trouble, we'll pull him off.

Now they're like, oh, so-and-so. Oh, Joe Smith, he doesn't ask good questions. Let's pull it. We're done. We're done.

We're out. And you think, wait a minute, you are literally trying to kind of manipulate the media, what questions he answers, who he answers with. In this gathering of business leaders, they put him out the back door, the gathering with lawmakers, they paper over the windows of the thing. There's no media allowed. And you think, come on.

You look at the most transparent administration that we've ever seen in the Trump administration, and then you go back to Mondami, and you go Momdani, sorry, and then you go back to the Biden administration. There was no transparency. This Mom Dani thing has no transparency with the Democratic Party because they're not transparent. And they keep going after Trump for, like, oh my God, he's doing this and he's doing this. Yeah, but he's laying everything on the table except the Epstein files, which apparently, if he's not laying anything on the table, the question is, what is there to lay on the table?

I don't want to change subjects on you, but you know, I'll go back to that. I want you to hear this guy, Matt Slater. He was on Fox and Friends first. You would only have three hours' sleep if you stayed up to watch Fox and Friends first. Right.

So here is Matt Slater talking about who this guy is that he works with in the assembly, CUD 19. Do you think that he's somebody that would moderate their positions if he is elected into office?

Sometimes you can be very idealistic until reality sets in. I don't think so. We saw his meeting recently with CEOs here in New York City, and he was very clear that he's not walking back his policies or his beliefs. And so he's already showing us the fact that he's an ideologue. He has no intention of walking back his radical policy whatsoever.

And yes, he can be very charming. And when he's here, he can charm the birds out of the trees. But at the end of the day, he has to be able to perform and he has to be able to deliver for New York. And that agenda, that communist agenda, and the president called him a communist the other day and I think he's 100% right, that just won't fly. No.

But he's perfect. I hate it for the country, but if you're a Republican, you got to love this because this is President Trump is going to make this guy the face of the party. Yeah, but is it a good thing for the nation, is the question because it moves the Democratic Party far left. And if you go before October 7th, Zoran Mamdani is not possible. Zoran Mamdani's candidacy, his mayoral bid, is not possible.

But after October 7th, we see in this country that all of a sudden anti-Semitism and these rallies and globalize the intifada and from the river to the sea, these are all phrases that become normalized. They fight for them and say, this is the way, you know, we're just fighting for the rights of Palestinians. We're fighting for the rights of people in Gaza. No, you're not. You're fighting against the people in Israel.

That's the whole thing. And becomes normalized. At Columbia University, at UCLA, across the country, you have these protests, and young people start to gravitate toward this. And it becomes a normal conversation to now say it's okay to. To speak out, it's free speech.

It's not hate speech to say, let's eradicate the Jews. It's free speech. And when that becomes normalized, people like Zoran Mamdani become legitimate contenders. Rated T for Teen. Each year, thousands of adults lose their shred.

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So let's go what you brought up before about what's happened with the president of the United States.

So the president's on a roll. I mean, the cryptocurrency legislation, the fallback, the big beautiful law, which is now going, the shutdown of the border. You see the prices coming down, inflation slightly higher, but not much higher, the revenue coming in off tariffs.

So people are like, well, this Epstein thing has been a distraction. And I'm sure you covered last night two polls that are out, CNN and the Q poll. When asked, what do you think of the president? Republicans, when Republicans thought of the president prior to Epstein, 86% approved. After 88%.

88%. Q-Poll started at 87% before.

Now after this came out, 90. That's a cue pole. Doesn't really lean right. Having said that, Democrats see an opportunity. Van Jones, disappointed in this because he's usually somewhat level-headed, Cut 26.

This is a president that's in trouble. He has Lied to his base, He told them that he was going to do something he's afraid to do. Why is Trump afraid to release these documents? That is the question. I have been defending Trump, actually, saying it's inconceivable that anything in these documents is going to hurt Trump because Biden would have released them.

But he's been acting. Does he still think that's true?

Well, now he's acting so weird. Trump is acting so bizarre. You're holding your head. When Van Jones comes out and he says, he starts with, this president is in trouble. In trouble, from who?

From whom is this president in trouble? As you said, Republicans, 88% are now supporting him. That number is up. Like I tell everybody, listen, get off X, get off social media, because yeah, if you go on X, you're like, oh my God, Trump might have a day or two left in office and that's it because everybody's coming for him. I mean, they could literally walk in there and take him and walk him out.

You think, have you lost your minds? Look at the numbers. Talk to real Americans. Go to the middle of the country. Get out of New York.

Get out of Los Angeles. Go to the middle of the country. Go to Florida and find out what the real feeling is over Donald Trump. And you will find out. And you'll walk away like, dang, that X thing is a bad barometer for what's happening in the world.

And for Van Jones to say, oh, he's in trouble because he's not releasing what? What? He's now come out and said, what do you want released? What would you like us to give you? Did they hype it up?

We said it on our show many times. Listen, Pam Bondi went out and she made it sound like there was something nefarious, right? She's had a couple of comments and we played them again and made it sound like there was something interesting and she was going to get to the bottom of it.

So she kind of ginned this up and then there was nothing there. I'm not saying there was ever anything there or that she said there was ever anything there, but she sold it. It was like we sell a good tease, right? We're trying to get you to the next break. Pam Boni is trying to get us to the next break so that we'd keep watching and she was going to deliver the goods in the next break.

A couple of things. When he says the president's acting weird, that's not the right word. The president's ticked, and here's why. Because he's President Trump. Haven't you figured it out yet?

For example, do you remember when Joe Biden melted down at the famously in the June debate? Yes. President Trump, after a few days, was ticked off. Why? He's saying, no one's talking about the job I did.

They're talking about Biden melting down. And that's the way Trump is. He's a competitive guy.

So he's saying, win, win. Pass the bill on July 4th. Everything's going, the border shut down. I'm on a roll. And all you guys are talking about this.

He's ticked. But if you think that this guy's worried after the lawsuits that came his way, the Mueller report, the impeachment, the investigation to January 6th, you think he's worried about this? Are you crazy? That's the whole thing is he's on such a winning streak that this is what they're grasping onto. The Democrats are like, we've tried everything else.

But they're not interested in this. No. That's the problem. The Democrats aren't interested in this. They couldn't care less about any of this, but they're thinking, is it negative against Trump when they get in there and they paper over the windows and they start talking?

They're like, is this going to hurt Trump? And they're like, I don't know, but you know what? We got nothing else. This Iran thing went his way. The tariffs that everybody, including the Wall Street Journal, said the sky was going to fall.

That was the end of it. We're in a depression. We might as well just pack up and go home now. didn't happen. And like you talked about, inflation, inflation was up 0.2%, Brian, up 0.2%, and it was in triple block letters on the thing.

Inflation was up 0.2% in a month where they have to go back over and redo the numbers sometime at the end of the month. You have no idea what the specifics are, and you're building it up like, look, it's a big deal. Inflation, here we go again. That's how desperate they are. Here's how desperate they are.

The guy who was Biden's border advisor came out with an article this week saying, here's my ideas on how to fix the border. How to fix the border? It's fixed. Believe it or not, it's fixed. He gave this whole list of how we need new laws and this thing.

You're like, you are grasping when you say, hey, I've got a way to fix the border.

So it was just so funny. The memes have followed up with that. They said, yeah, Humpty Dumpty Callie wants to tell you how to sit on the wall. Right, right. I mean, it's like Tom Brady.

I mean, it's like Dan Marino telling Tom Brady how to win a Super Bowl. Hey, listen, Tommy, here's how you do it. Here's my strategy. Brady's like, get yourself. I don't need him.

Right. Retail sales are down 0.6%.

So you have gas prices year-to-year down 10%, down to a very feasible, plausible $3.16. With everything they got going on energy, do you really think that those prices are going to go down much further? Tariffs have generated over $100 billion. International financial investment is up around $2 trillion.

So. I'm just saying that it it's not hard. Yet you have Tim Waltz saying this guy's not doing anything to drive down prices. Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, it's a crazy it was like the old egg debate.

They had this thing on MSNBC, the egg debate, where one of the craziest people on MSNBC comes out and says, Oh, egg prices are up. Egg prices are up, and you think, What are you talking about?

Well, year over year, it was on CNN. Apology, it was on CNN, and the CNN host is like, They're up. You can see year over year, they're up. And the guy, the conservative guy on CNN, is like, Wait a minute, he's been in office for six months. You're telling you're going back to six months before Biden was out of office and saying egg prices are up.

Did you look at the prices of eggs when Biden left office and the prices now? They're down 35 percent. That's the whole measure here. The year-over-year thing, it was up the next month, it was down, it was up, up, up, up, up. Trace Kelly, just your opinion quick before I let you go.

And then you, what else are you doing today? I'm doing outnumbered. I got Kudlow with you.

Okay, so we're coming on Kudlow, and then I've got my show, Fox News at Night. And then on Sunday nights, you're going to watch a 10-1 Nation, right? I always watch One Nation. It's 7 o'clock. I haven't missed it in years.

That's. Of course, I don't believe you, but I'm going to take that as gospel. Goes without saying. Trace, your opinion, President's going to look at the podcasters, the bloggers, the social media stars who came aboard late, the the Von Uh what's his name? Um Yeah, Theo Von Jan and others.

Theo von James. You have these other guys, these fringe guys, who got behind the president. He's going to look at them differently now. Yeah. Because he's looking at this and goes, guys, what are you doing?

Yeah. Two of your guys, Dan Bongino, I put Cash Patel. Maybe Pam Bondi shouldn't have said I got this on my desk, misinterpreted, whatever. That was a mistake. But I put my guys on the things of most interest, RFK, JFK, MLK, this whole thing with Epstein.

And now you're going to jump ship, and I'm not worthy of your loyalty. I feel like he's like, I'm done. I'm 79 years old. I've already been shot. I got three more years of this.

I'm telling you, Brianna, if maybe you tell me if I'm wrong here. It feels dossier-A-ish to me. It really does. It feels like there's something that's not been corroborated. I'm not into it.

I have to force myself to be into it. I look at this stuff and I'm like, it feels very like we're going down a road that nobody's got evidence and nobody can really present anything. And not to indict Pam Bondi, because if I said that when she, when I mean her voice kind of brought up like, oh, like she knew something, she never, she said, I haven't reviewed these documents. I haven't reviewed them.

So there, she had no idea it was in there. It was only the inflection in her voice to people like, well, she sounded like she saw something. I'm telling you, if there was something there, we would have known about it because the Democrats loathe Donald Trump and they would have looked at this. Biden would have looked at this and said, ah, no, let's. Let's release it all.

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