A story New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shared about his aunt and her struggles to "feel safe in her hijab" after 9/11 hit a snag when it was revealed that he probably lied, Breitbart's John Nolte reported. The Democratic socialist frontrunner only has one aunt who does not wear a hijab and was not in New York City at the time.
"I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab. In an era of ever-diminishing bipartisanship, it seems that Islamophobia has emerged as one of the few areas of agreement," Mamdani said. Nolte pointed out that the candidate fought through "fake tears" to make that revelation that turned out to be absolute nonsense.
Greg Price shared the clip to X, formerly Twitter, showing Mamdani stopping himself several times during the statement to appear as if he was choked up. "Zohran through tears: 'My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.' Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11," Price captioned it.
Zohran through tears: “My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”
Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11
pic.twitter.com/aILr4JtVvF— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 24, 2025
Predictably, it now appears that Mamdani is another leftist liar who made up this story for clout. "The overall context was Mamdani defending himself against claims of anti-Semitism and an affection for Jew haters and Islamists," Nolte explained.
"Although all of that is true of Mamdani, what he’s doing here is pulling the trick perfected by Barry Obama, where you declare any criticism, even accurate and valid criticism, racist. Except…Mamdani lied," Nolte charged.
"Turns out Mamdani has only one aunt, a woman named Masuma Mamdani, who does not wear a hijab and who did not live in New York or even America during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks," Nolte pointed out. When confronted later, Mamdani tried to explain this away, saying he was "talking about his father’s cousin, a woman who is not his aunt and who cannot verify Mamdani’s tale of post-9/11 woe because she’s dead," Nolte said.
The leftist candidate tried then to pivot from the issue at hand. “I was speaking about my aunt, I was speaking about Zehra Fuhi — my father’s cousin, who sadly passed away a few years ago,” Mamdani said.
"For the takeaway, for my more than 10-minute address about Islamophobia in this race and this city, to be the question of my aunt tells you everything about Andrew Cuomo," Mamdani said, blaming his opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Nolte sees this as yet another sign that "New York City is so screwed."
Nolte went on to explain that Mamdani is sure to get elected due to the city's "foreign-born population," whom he claims have "obviously not been assimilated thanks to the Democrat Party, and now New York will become Paris, Dublin, and London — an Islamized foreign country hostile to its host country," he warns. "What a shame. New York really was a great city at one time, probably the greatest in the world," Nolte added.
"This is how extreme the Democrat Party has become. They are alright with this and Nazi tattoos," Nolte said, referring to another radical leftist candidate, Graham Platner, who is running for U.S. Senate in Maine.
"In their demented minds, anything is better than Donald Trump, who is basically a Bill Clinton-style Democrat in terms of policy. One great difference between America and the lost continent of Europe is that we have 50 mostly sovereign states, the First Amendment, the Electoral College, and two U.S. Senators representing each state regardless of population size," Nolte went on.
"Our Founding Fathers understood history and put together a brilliant system to hold tight to our republic. It’s not foolproof. Nothing is. But for now, at least, we can all watch New York burn from the comfort of MAGA America, which is already everything Democrats claim they want America to be: clean, safe, and tolerant," Nolte concluded.
Mamdani represents the worst of Democratic politicians in the fact that he's anti-American, pro-Communist, and a liar to boot. As Nolte and many others are predicting, Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of New York City, and the people there will get precisely what they voted for. RIP New York City.
