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Mamdani preaches from pulpit of radical pastor pushing reparations, abolishing police: ‘Brother and friend’
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FIRST ON FOX: New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani appeared at a church over the weekend led by a pastor with a history of controversial statements on race, anti-Israel ties, and who has issued support for reparations.
«My profound thanks to Rev. Stephen A. Green and the Greater Allen AME for the honor of addressing their beautiful congregation in Jamaica, Queens this morning,» Mamdani posted on X late Sunday.
Mamdani spoke at the church for over 10 minutes and delivered a politically charged sermon that weaved in scripture in an attempt to justify his campaign platform. Near the end of his sermon, Mamdani said New York City and the United States are facing a «dark moment.» He then called the Trump administration an «authoritarian government» and slammed ICE for «abduct[ing]» immigrants.
«That is not justice. It is cruelty and it is criminal. These are our neighbors. These are people who are guilty of only wanting a field of their own to harvest,» he continued.
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New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani delivered a politically charged sermon Sunday at Rev. Stephen A. Green’s Greater Allen AME church. (The Greater Allen Cathedral of New York/Facebook screenshot)
He went on to target the issue of affordability in New York City, an issue that has resonated with his supporters, and asked, «What good is New York City being the greatest city in the world if New Yorkers cannot afford to live here?»
Green, who called Mamdani his «brother and friend,» repeatedly said, «Amen» after the sermon and thanked him for attending. Like Mamdani, who has espoused several controversial political views, Green is no stranger to pushing his radical views on social media. In 2021, he called for a «new U.S. Constitution» on social media, saying that the country needs a document that «guarantees the right to vote, abolishes the electoral college, provides reparations for slavery, guarantees annual income, and so much more.»
In a 2022 Facebook post, Green, who calls himself a «global thought leader at the intersection of faith and social justice» and an «activist,» called on President Biden to establish a commission on reparations because the «impact of slavery and its vestiges are felt in every aspect of life for Black people.»
«I was proud to be arrested at the DC Airport with my comrades to protect voting rights, DC Statehood, and reparations,» Green said in a 2021 Facebook post that included a video of him being arrested. «We must continue to escalate our actions across the nation in order to protect voting rights. This is our revolutionary summer. Hold on, we must keep our eyes on the prize.»
«Trump’s executive order is still entrenched in White Supremacist nationalism,» Green posted on Facebook in June 2018. «We can not ease up on our pressure to abolish ICE and open our borders.»
New York City mayoral candidate and democratic State Representative Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City on April 16, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
In another Facebook post that year, Green insisted on «abolish[ing] the system of policing in this nation» and amplified a separate post accusing the system of policing in the United States as being anti-Black.
One month after the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, Green participated in a rally calling for a ceasefire. Pastor Jamal Bryant, who Fox News Digital previously reported has a long history of praising notorious antisemite Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, was one of the leaders at the rally.
Bryant is the leading voice behind the recent boycott of Target where liberal activists urged the public not to shop at the retailer in response to the company’s rollback of DEI guidelines.
Green also led another rally the following February that was promoted as a «peace pilgrammage» for Gaza, saying, «We walked 150 miles to push the Biden administration to demand a ceasefire to protect the lives of all precious Palestinians and to pursue the beloved community.»
«The Black prophetic tradition calls me to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God as we speak out against genocide, occupation and war,» he continued, appearing to take a shot against Israel.
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As New York City reels from a deadly mass shooting in midtown Manhattan that killed four, the Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, is getting renewed attention for a recent pledge to eliminate a key police department responsible for riots, civil disorder and shootings. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon and AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In recent weeks, Mamdani has faced an onslaught of attacks amid old interviews and past social media posts being unearthed, including several posts from 2020 and 2021 calling for defunding police.
«We need a socialist city council to defund the police,» Mamdani posted on X in July 2020.
«Queer liberation means defund the police,» Mamdani posted on X in November 2020.
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«Nature is healing,» Mandani posted on X in response to a user mocking and laughing at seeing a police officer «crying inside his car.»
However, last week, in the wake of a Midtown Manhattan shooting that left a NYPD officer dead, Mamdani said his calls to defund the police were made out of «frustration» over George Floyd’s death and appeared to distance himself from his past rhetoric.
His comments left several in the community unconvinced that he had genuinely turned the page from antagonizing the police and with the belief that the walkback was politically driven as the city reels from the worst mass shooting in half a century.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Mamdani campaign and Green for comment.
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A former attorney general under George W. Bush’s administration is testifying to House Oversight Committee investigators on Tuesday.
Alberto Gonzales, who led the Department of Justice (DOJ) from February 2005 until mid-September 2007, is the second witness being called in the bipartisan House probe into Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
It’s not immediately clear how many lawmakers will appear at the closed-door deposition, which is expected to largely be staff-led. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is likely to attend, however.
Gonzales notably led the DOJ during early talks with Florida federal prosecutors for Epstein’s infamous non-prosecution agreement, which was formed in 2007 and finalized in 2008.
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Epstein, pictured here in New York City on Feb. 23, 2011, is the subject of a bipartisan House Oversight Committee investigation. (David McGlynn)
He left shortly before it was signed, however – something Comer noted in a subpoena cover letter to Gonzales earlier this month.
«Your tenure as U.S. Attorney General, from 2005 to late 2007, coincided with a time period when the FBI investigated Jeffrey Epstein for sex crimes, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida prepared a draft 60-count indictment of Mr. Epstein, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida offered a plea bargain to Mr. Epstein, leading to the signing of Mr. Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement only one week after you left office,» Comer wrote.
The House Oversight Committee sent a flurry of subpoenas regarding Epstein earlier this month, kicking off a bipartisan investigation into the late pedophile.
In addition to Gonzales, subpoenas were also issued seeking depositions from former FBI directors Robert Mueller and James Comey, ex-attorneys general Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions, as well as former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Notably excluded from the list is Alex Acosta, the former Trump Labor Secretary who approved the non-prosecution agreement with Epstein while serving as a U.S. attorney in Florida.
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Alberto Gonzales, pictured here in April 2013, served as attorney general from 2005 to 2007. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The subpoenas were directed via a bipartisan vote during an unrelated House Oversight subcommittee hearing on illegal immigrant children in late July.
Renewed interest in Epstein’s case has gripped Capitol Hill after the DOJ’s handling of the matter spurred a GOP revolt by far-right figures.
The DOJ effectively declared the case closed after an «exhaustive review,» revealing Epstein had no «client list,» did not blackmail «prominent individuals,» and confirmed he did die by suicide in a New York City jail while awaiting prosecution.
Democrats seized on the discord with newfound calls for transparency in Epstein’s case – spurring accusations of hypocrisy from their Republican colleagues.
Indeed, the bipartisan unity that the investigation was kicked off with quickly disintegrated after the first witness, Barr, was deposed last week.
Reps. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., and Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who attended part of Barr’s deposition, left the room roughly halfway through the sit-down and accused Republicans of insufficiently probing questions during their allotted time to depose Barr.
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Comer, in response, implored Democrats not to politicize a bipartisan investigation.
Divisions deepened after Comer said Barr had no knowledge of, nor did he believe, any implications of wrongdoing on President Donald Trump’s part related to Epstein.
House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., who was not in the room, released a statement after the deposition, claiming Barr did not clear Trump.
In addition to Gonzales’ deposition Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee is also expected to hear this week from former Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Unity tested: Democrats face off over Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, dark money in politics, during DNC summer meeting
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MINNEAPOLIS – Democrats opened their summer meeting in Minnesota on Monday with calls for unity against President Donald Trump, even as internal divisions on a host of issues threaten to erupt.
«We are unified towards one single goal: to stop Donald Trump and put this country back on track,» DNC Chair Ken Martin declared when he addressed the more than 400 elected party officials from all 50 states and seven territories, as the summer meeting kicked off in his home state of Minnesota.
While Democrats appeared united in their drive to counter the sweeping and controversial moves by Trump during his first seven months back in the White House, divisions among the committee members may flare on Tuesday.
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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin addresses party members at the DNC’s summer meeting on Aug. 25, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News )
That’s when the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, and limiting dark money in presidential politics, will both be in the spotlight as the DNC’s Resolutions Committee meets.
Competing symbolic resolutions over the war in Gaza – which was sparked by the horrific Oct. 7, 2023, sneak attack by Hamas on Israel – will be voted on by the panel.
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Nearly 1,200 people in Israel were killed during the initial surprise attack by Hamas, with over 250 people taken hostage. In the nearly two years since the attack, over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s ongoing military response.
The showdown over the resolutions comes as the Democratic Party’s once nearly unshakable support for Israel has fractured amid the bloodshed. And concerns over the growing death toll among Palestinians by many in the party’s progressive base have soared this spring and summer, amid famine in Gaza.
Residents in Gaza line up for food amid worsening famine on July 23, 2025. (Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Recent polling indicates support for Israel’s continued military actions in Gaza is plummeting among Democrats.
One resolution, which is supported by Martin, calls for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
The competing resolution calls for an arms embargo and suspension of U.S. military aid to Israel, which has long been the top American ally in the Middle East.
The other resolution that’s bound to generate spirited debate and grab headlines on Tuesday is Martin’s push for the DNC to affirm its commitment to «eliminating unlimited corporate and dark money in our presidential nominating process beginning in the current 2028 cycle.»
While Democrats have long railed against the role of big money in politics, the resolution, which was first reported by the New York Times, calls for the creation of a new panel to propose by next summer «real, enforceable steps the D.N.C. can take to eliminate unlimited corporate and dark money in its 2028 presidential primary process.»
Outside groups such as super PACs, which are allowed to haul in unlimited contributions but are mandated to disclose their donors, have seen their influence in campaign politics multiply in recent election cycles.
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Democratic leaders and officials are gathering as the party tries to escape the political wilderness after last year’s elections, when Democrats lost control of the White House and Senate and fell short in their bid to win back the House majority. And Republicans made gains in voter demographics that previously made up key parts of the Democratic Party’s base.
The situation has only worsened for Democrats in the 10 months since last year’s election setbacks.
The Democrats’ brand is deeply unpopular, especially with younger voters, as the party’s poll numbers continue to drop to all-time lows in national surveys.
The DNC faces a massive fundraising deficit at the hands of the rival Republican National Committee (RNC) and voter data indicated Democratic Party registration was plunging while GOP sign-ups were on the rise in the 30 states that register voters by party.
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On Monday, amid talk that Democrats remain divided over a slew of policy and political issue, Martin wasn’t the only one preaching unity and downplaying any discord.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in an address to the committee members, said «there’s a division in my damn house, and we’re still married, and things are good. That’s life… We are strong because we challenge each other.»
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting, on Aug. 25, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)
And longtime Democratic strategist and DNC committee member Maria Cardona told Fox News, «I’m so sick of people focusing on the infighting and the circular firing squad. All of that is crap, when we have real issues, existential threats that we need to fight about, and we are all united on that front and that’s all that matters.»
Martin, who was elected DNC chair in February, has weathered turmoil during his tenure so far, including a controversy sparked by now-former vice chair David Hogg’s backing of primary challengers against older House Democrats in safe blue districts.
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RNC communications director Zach Parkinson, responding to Monday’s DNC session, told Fox News that «under Ken Martin’s leadership, Democrats have sunk to their lowest approval rating in 35 years.»
Pointing to Martin, Parkinson said «as Republicans, we think he is doing a fantastic job, and we fully endorse him to stay on as DNC Chair.»
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