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Former Trump official warns Mamdani victory would mark ‘Marxist shift’ for New York City
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America’s most populous — and possibly most iconic — city is days away from possibly electing a self-defined socialist as its mayor. A former Trump administration official told Fox News Digital that a win for Zohran Mamdani could mark a shift towards Marxism in New York City.
«I could never fathom the thought of having a Marxist leading my city, the crown jewel city of the United States, of the world, of the free world,» Gene Hamilton, America First Legal co-founder and president, told Fox News Digital.
The heated New York City mayoral race has garnered national attention as former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, now running as an independent, Mamdani and Republican Curtis Sliwa face off in an all-out battle to govern the city.
Hamilton, who formerly served as White House Deputy Counsel, noted some polls have shown a divide between U.S.- and foreign-born voters, with those coming from outside the country leaning more towards the young socialist. Hamilton said he sees this as evidence of long-failed immigration policies, as well as a shift away from promoting assimilation and towards pushing integration.
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New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani accepts an endorsement from the United Bodegas of America in the Bronx, New York City, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
«One of the things we’ve seen over the last several decades is an emphasis amongst many social organizations, nonprofits, the government itself, on this concept of pushing integration, and not assimilation. ‘Assimilation’ was treated as a dirty word,» Hamilton said, highlighting resistance against pushing for immigrants to adopt American culture.
He said the difference is that integration now means that «we’re integrating you from whatever background you have, whatever political ideology you have, and we’re just integrating you into society and everyone else has to deal with it.»
While Hamilton acknowledges that immigration can create appreciation for cultures, he asserted that this does not mean that those coming to the U.S. can ignore the existing culture they’re moving into. He also emphasized the importance of upholding existing immigration laws, arguing that enforcement is not just about border control but about protecting American values.
«There are prohibitions, there are restrictions from the admission of individuals for many, many reasons,» he told Fox News Digital. «You can’t admit somebody to the United States who’s been a member of a totalitarian party or communist party. There are people that you can’t submit because they’re going to engage in certain types of activity.»
People walk towards a polling site during early voting in the New York City mayoral election in Manhattan in New York City, Oct. 27, 2025. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
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«There is an oath that every naturalized citizen has to take as part of becoming a citizen. They are promising to the United States government that they are renouncing any existing foreign ties and obligations, and instead they’re embracing this new American identity. And so all of this wraps together to this devaluation of the value of an American, the American identity, the quintessential American identity that dominated perceptions across the world for decades and decades,» Hamilton added.
When it comes to the contentious New York City race, Hamilton said that it shows that the U.S. has brought in «a lot of people» and has failed to teach the importance of Western values, of the U.S. Constitution and what the founders fought for. He said he believes the sacrifices of those who built the country are being «shunted aside towards this belief, this ideological suicide in some ways, that we can just bring anyone from anywhere across the world.»
He said the belief that as long as immigrants «provide some kind of economic enhancement to the country of any kind — whether that’s as an Uber driver, or whether it’s as a nuclear scientist — that we should just welcome it all the same, treat them all the same, and we’re all greatly enriched because of it just» defies «common sense.»
During last year’s presidential election, immigration took center stage as many saw the Biden administration’s handling of the border as a failure. This heavily impacted then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who was, at one point, tapped to be the country’s border czar.
A Zohran Mamdani supporter gathers at a canvass launch in Hells Kitchen, New York City, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Fox News Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
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Hamilton reflected on how the American people «outright rejected the open borders mentality of the Biden administration,» adding that it went beyond the rejection of open land borders and also the bringing in of people from all across the world.
«Things take time. It takes years for things to change, but we are now dealing with the consequences of years of failure up until now. We have a real chance to fix it now. Donald Trump is fixing things on the national level. The people of New York still have a chance to make this right. But things are looking really bad,» Hamilton said.
Hamilton also touched on the mentality New York Republicans should have while heading to the polls. Despite there being a Republican candidate in the race, there are those who believe that voting for Cuomo would hurt Mamdani, while voting for Sliwa would help him.
Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Zohran Mamdani at the mayoral debate. (Angelina Katsanis-Pool/Getty Images)
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«I think it’s really hard,» Hamilton said. «Ultimately, I know a lot of people like Sliwa. He seems like a wonderful man. I don’t know him personally. And so you can stand proud and support on principle voting for a Republican. But at the end of the day, you also have to accept and recognize reality sometimes. And whatever it takes to ensure that you do get a Marxist in office is a reasonable decision to make, and so if that means holding your nose and voting for Cuomo, that’s a personal decision to make.»
Even with the national election long over and the 2025 races just days away, there are those who are thinking about next year’s midterms and how a Mamdani win could shift the tides.
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«Certainly I think you’ll see the Democratic Party rally around him and the energy behind his election as a means to try to turn out the vote in 2026 for their preferred candidates, to get this kind of more Marxist message out there and accepted,» Hamilton said, adding that the possibly disastrous consequences of Mamdani’s policies may not be evident immediately.
«It might take time to see the consequences of his disastrous policies. New York might not get trashed overnight,» he added.
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Cientos de camiones quedaron varados en Brasil: transportan una cosecha récord de soja y la mayoría está destinada a China
Los camioneros en Brasil enfrentan retrasos inusualmente largos para entregar soja en la terminal portuaria de Miritituba, en la selva amazónica, debido a que una cosecha récord de aproximadamente 180 millones de toneladas métricas desborda la logística en uno de los principales centros de exportación de este cultivo a nivel mundial.
El retraso en el transporte de soja desde el mayor productor y exportador mundial pone de relieve los continuos obstáculos logísticos en la cadena de suministro agrícola brasileña. Gran parte de la cosecha de soja se destina a China.
“Es una vergüenza aquí en Miritituba”, declaró a Reuters el camionero Jeferson Borges da Silva, quien esperó en una fila de 30 km (20 millas) tras recorrer 1.200 km desde Mato Grosso.
“Llevamos dos días haciendo fila, no hay forma de conseguir nada, la gente que no tiene cocina se muere de hambre en la calle, luego se equivocan de dirección y por eso les multan. El tráfico no puede circular, por eso está todo parado. Como pueden ver, la fila tiene más de 30 km. Llevamos dos días aquí y ya nadie sabe qué hacer”, dijo Borges da Silva.
“En cuanto a la protesta indígena en Cargill, creo que afectó un poco a Miritituba, porque los camioneros ganan comisión; si trabajan, ganan; si no trabajan, no. Así que no se quedaron esperando la huelga; todos vinieron a Miritituba, por eso aumentó el número de camiones”, agregó.
Miritituba, un punto crítico de transbordo, maneja aproximadamente 12 millones de toneladas métricas de granos al año, incluyendo soja y maíz. Empresas como Cargill, Bunge BG.N y la brasileña Amaggi operan terminales fluviales donde los cultivos se cargan en barcazas para su transporte río abajo a instalaciones más grandes capaces de llenar buques transoceánicos. El tráfico suele ser intenso en esta época del año.
Para agravar los problemas de la industria, activistas indígenas invadieron este mes una instalación de transbordo de Cargill en Santarém en protesta contra la política gubernamental de dragar y ampliar la capacidad de transporte marítimo a través de la cuenca amazónica.
Por su parte, la chofer de camiones Silvia Apreciada da Silva dijo: “Los puertos no tienen todo ese apoyo, y aquí sufrimos, sufrimos sin duchas, sin comida, sin poder descansar, sin dormir toda la noche, dos o tres días haciendo cola, y eso no está bien, eso no es bueno”.
“El número de camiones ha aumentado muchísimo. ¿Cómo van a caber mil camiones en un patio donde solo caben 500 o 200? Es imposible, y bloquearía la carretera», agregó.
Sus manifestaciones llevaron al gobierno el lunes a revocar un decreto que facilitaba dichas ampliaciones de vías fluviales, lo que generó mayor incertidumbre para los exportadores agrícolas.
El camionero Wellington Bressan afirmó que las protestas indígenas podrían haber contribuido al atasco en Miritituba, ya que los conductores se apresuraron a asegurar los puntos de descarga.
Cargill, que suspendió temporalmente las operaciones en su terminal de Santarém durante las protestas, anunció este jueves que está trabajando para reanudar la actividad.
(Con información de Reuters)
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Swalwell campaign sets off alarm bells after accepting $25K donation from CCP-tied lawyer: ‘Outrageous’
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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Eric Swalwell’s, D-Calif., gubernatorial campaign continues to be bankrolled by Keliang «Clay» Zhu despite concerns over his ties to China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Zhu donated another $25,000 to Swalwell’s campaign earlier this month after he had already donated $5,000 to Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign in November and previously donated over $10,000 to his House campaigns.
Zhu is a partner at DeHeng Law Offices PC, a top Beijing law firm that has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and has also donated thousands to Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign. The law firm’s website shows their lone «Silicon Valley Office,» located in Pleasanton, Calif., appears to only have a single lawyer who works there – Zhu, who has a history of fighting for Chinese interests in the U.S.
«Once again, Congressman Swalwell got caught with his hand in the CCP cookie jar,» lamented Michael Lucci, a top China expert and the founder and CEO of State Armor Action. «It’s simply outrageous that Congressman Swallwell would take even more money from Keliang Zhu after Zhu’s connections to the CCP were made public.»
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California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell waves before speaking at the 2026 California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
A Fox News Digital review in January revealed that the law firm Zhu is a partner in was founded as the China Law Office, which was a subsidiary firm established by the CCP’s Ministry of Justice in the early 1990s before being renamed the DeHeng Law Offices in 1995.
While the firm, which has over two dozen offices in China, portrays itself as independent, the firm and its lawyers continue to have longstanding cooperation with the Chinese government’s departments and major state-owned enterprises. Many of the firm’s China-based attorneys also have a history of working in Chinese politics.
Zhu, who is originally from China, touts several examples of how he has helped Chinese state-owned enterprises and other Chinese companies get a foothold in the United States, according to his bio on the law firm’s website.
For example, he touts representing an «investment fund of a major state-owned enterprise in acquiring majority shares in one data analytics software company in the Silicon Valley,» which he valued at $100 million. Another bio for Zhu touts how he «has assisted Chinese companies and funds to complete more than $9 billion investments in the fields of chips, unmanned vehicles, new energy, artificial intelligence, industrial automation, and biopharmaceuticals in the United States.»
«On behalf of Chinese enterprises, he has negotiated with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Treasury and other organizations for many times and achieved compliance plans, which greatly reduced the compliance risks for Chinese clients in the United States,» the bio continued.
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The bios also indicate Zhu helped advise «a governmental investment fund from Shenzhen for its compliance with CFIUS regulations in the U.S.» and represented «WeChat users in a historic lawsuit that sued President Trump and successfully stopped his WeChat ban in 2020.»
At the time, Trump’s first administration sounded the alarm over WeChat and said the «data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information» and was concerned that the CCP would use data to stalk dissenters or control messaging inside the United States, such as launching disinformation campaigns. Similar efforts to restrict WeChat have occurred in countries like Australia and India, according to the White House.
Meanwhile, after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit intended to stop a Texas law banning Chinese nationals from owning or leasing land in the state, Zhu described the legislation as «unfair, unconstitutional and un-American,» according to AsAmNews, a daily news site focused on Asian-American and Pacific-Islander communities. Zhu similarly expressed disfavor with a Florida law meant to prevent individuals from countries that are foreign adversaries to the United States, such as China, from buying up land.
Chinese land grabs in the United States have been an ongoing concern for lawmakers. Currently, Congress is considering multiple bills related to the matter, while almost two dozen states have already passed legislation to implement changes around foreign land purchases in their states. (Getty Images)
DeHeng Law Office’s other China-based attorneys have a history of working in Chinese politics as well. This has largely been through the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which is a «key mechanism for multi-party cooperation and political consultation» under the leadership of the CCP, according to the CPPCC website, and is a crucial tool of the United Front strategy to influence U.S. policy.
For example, Zhixu Wu, who is a «Director and Senior Partner» of the Kunming, China-based office of DeHeng Law Offices, is a member of the «Standing Committee of the 13th Kunming Committee of the CPPCC» and a member «of the 12th Yunnan Committee of the CPPCC.» His bio also says he was previously awarded in 2017 with «the title of ‘Excellent League Member’ for the second assistance event of the National Lawyers Service Group,» which was approved by the «Eight Bureau of United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee, Guidance Department of Lawyer’s Notarization Work of the Ministry of Justice.»
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Swalwell’s ties to China have come under scrutiny before, particularly after Chinese national, Christine Fang, also known as «Fang Fang,» gained special access to him and his campaign. She was deemed by U.S. officials to be part of a counterintelligence effort linked to China meant to influence and get close to U.S. political figures.
Swalwell has repeatedly claimed he cut off ties as soon as U.S. intelligence officials warned him of the threat and a congressional ethics investigation into the matter eventually found no wrongdoing on Swalwell’s behalf. However, he was ultimately removed by Republicans from his post on the House Intelligence Committee, with then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy citing Swalwell’s past run-in with a suspected Chinese spy.
Fox News Digital uncovered a previously unreported 2013 Facebook post by China’s San Francisco consulate last month showing Swalwell touting «great potential» for U.S.-China cooperation during a meeting with a senior CCP diplomat early in his career, which came during the same time period when Swalwell was allegedly targeted by Chinese espionage efforts.
The Facebook post was also «liked» by Fang Fang, Fox News Digital’s review found.
Then-freshman member of Congress Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., seen posing in a photo with Deputy Consul General at China’s Bay Area consulate in San Francisco Song Ru’an in 2013. (Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco)
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«First, Swalwell had a fiery romance with Fang Fang, a CCP honeypot. Then he was caught taking campaign money from China’s favorite big law firm. Congressman Swalwell is either totally oblivious to the dangers of flirting with CCP operatives, or he doesn’t care and would take a check from Xi Jinping himself,» Lucci told Fox News Digital. «Congress should pass a law to prohibit campaign cash from Communist China before Swalwell’s sweet tooth has him hunting for another CCP honey pot or cookie jar.»
Neither the Swalwell campaign, DeHeng Law Offices nor Zhu responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
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