Noem Says She’ll Get Creative In Acting On Trump’s Threats Against Zohran Mamdani

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Noem Says She’ll Get Creative In Acting On Trump’s Threats Against Zohran Mamdani

Since the Hordes Maga learned for the first time the existence of the candidate for the Democrat mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani last week, they lost their heads – rushing on themselves to lobs racist and Islamophobic attacks on the candidate and the most fear about “communism”.

It is, in part, of a play with the republican trend now familiar to paint emerging democrats, whatever their real policy, as a radical left -wing revolutionaries. The rancid obsession for Mamdani is reminiscent of the treatment of the AOC and other members of “The Squad”, which have been demonized since their first entry into Congress years ago. It is a way of holding the false populist promises of Maga to have to go aside with politicians who could in fact help the Americans of the working class.

The strategy is also, of course, partially rooted in racism and xenophobia at the heart of the Maga movement. Supporters of President Trump online tried to launch the Democratic Socialist Legislator and the New York State legislator as a kind of radical and anti-American foreigner who wants to make communism. It is far from the neighborhood candidate that New Yorkers have seen in recent months, who has run in the primaries of a campaign is closely concentrated on affordability and has been rewarded with popularity.

Trump ran for the White House this second time on a political remuneration campaign, above all. Many of his first actions in the reinstatement of the White House consisted in installing his friends at the highest levels of the federal government and the Ministry of Justice to do so. Ed Martin, the guy he installed as an acting interim chief of the DCUS lawyer’s office – before he was moved to a different role within the DOJ when the deadline to have served in an acting capacity was exhausted and the Senate republicans were suspicious of confirming it – spent a lot of time in the office threatening to the elected investigations.

Trump’s internal security ministry has also used the antagonization, break -in with and even the arrest of elected democrats trying to monitor the activities and / or the ICE detention centers. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) was handcuffed when he tried to ask a question at the press conference of the Secretary of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, in the middle of the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. Similar situations took place with the New York controller (then the town hall candidate) Brad Lander and the representative Lamonica McIiver (D-NJ).

That’s all, it was a question of knowing when, not if, Trump and Noem would cling to the racist collapse of the far -right legislators and Maga’s theorists on Mamdani. Trump said yesterday “we will have to stop him” in response to questions about Mamdani’s wish to maintain New York sanctuary status. He also falsely called into question the citizenship of Mamdani – the candidate has lived in the United States since he has seven years and has become a naturalized citizen in 2018 – and hosted his head in the sense of expeling him.

“Many people say he’s illegally here,” said Trump. “We’re going to look at everything.”

And during a timeless meeting of Trump’s internal security advisory council today, Mamdani returned. According to Notus, the members of the Council include the disgraced and removed mayor from New York, Rudy Giuliani and David Chesnoff, a Trump advisor and lawyer who defended Corey Lewandowski against allegations of sexual misconduct. Guiliani and Chesnoff mentioned the religion of Mamdani (he is Muslim) to try to suggest that Mamdani was anti-American. Noem has seized the Islamophobic moment to suggest that she could seek ways to go after the Democratic candidate. Per notus:

This comment seemed to draw the attention of Noem. Noem, whose department supervises expulsion raids increasingly militarized frequently led by masked people who hide their names and badges, said that it was looking for creative means to extend its power.

“The Ministry of Internal Security has authorities that have never been used before … and I will need spirit on how to use these authorities,” she said.

Dr. Oz helps whip the votes

It is a title for ages. Mehmet Oz, the chief of the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has apparently been enlisted today to help President Trump Sway House Republicans who has concerns about voting for draconian cups in Medicaid, the health care service that OZ supervises allegedly. By politico:

They are particularly concerned about how their communities could access a limited pot of $ 50 billion for rural hospitals in legislation. Oz specifically explained how states districts such as Pennsylvania and other areas that are not specifically rural could obtain money from the fund, depending on two people with direct knowledge.

The room, starting on Wednesday evening, is stuck in a vote of perpetual rules while the president of the Mike Johnson room (R-La) tries to obtain all the “our” of his conference at “yes” and while they are waiting for the members taken in weather delays to arrive for a vote on the megabill. My colleague Emine Yücel has more here.

The prohibition of 176 -year -old abortion canceled

Although the liberal majority of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin was expected, the High Court of the State, officially canceled a ban on archaic abortion in the State which, as in many states across the country, returned to books in 2022 after the Supreme Court was canceled canceled Roe c. Wade.

This is a decision that Wisconsin voters have been waiting for since the state elected a liberal majority in 2023. J. Janet Protasiewicz, which won its seat in 2023, led a campaign closely focused on the protection of reproductive rights in the state. AP has more here.