Fox Business guest suggests there should be a federal investigation into Zohran Mamdani's campaign
John Catsimatidis: “If they, the Department of Justice or whoever, can create the proof that he knew there was foreign money helping him ... he should be knocked out of the race”
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From the September 8, 2025, edition of Fox Business' Mornings with Maria
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS (GUEST): The people, the citizens of the United States, and the citizens of New York have to know this. This Mamdani character is a created character. And I believe everybody in our federal government knows it and the investigative part of our federal government knows it and the fact is that in June, July he had 1% of the vote. All of a sudden, $50 million, $50 million shows up to hire an army worth of people to go out and promote him. That is a lot of money. I mean, it smells. I mean, a lot of it came, according to the New York Post, it was the Soros people. It was another person from Singapore that's getting Chinese money. Another report said, the New York Post, was Qatar because they're funding his mother but this is a created character. And if they, the department of justice or whoever, can create the proof that he knew there was foreign money helping him, that is very, I mean, he should be knocked out of the race. So you have a plan A, you have a plan B and that's the way it is. I mean, anybody but Zohran, Curtis, Eric Adams, or Cuomo would all be acceptable mayors.
CHERYL CASONE (ANCHOR): But if you look at the polling, John, to be clear, that it is Mamdani and then it's Cuomo and down at the bottom is Sliwa and Adams. In fact, Adams is in last place. So I think many in New York were surprised on Friday night when he said he was staying in the race. Do you think that Eric Adams leaves the race?
CATSIMATIDIS: There's always a possibility. I don't know. I haven't been in negotiations, if there have been negotiations, but he -- look, he's capable of being mayor. You know what I said to Tom Homan, because I love New York? Put an ICE agent in every polling booth. I mean, put an ICE agent in every polling booth, maybe the -- every election booth, maybe things will be fairer and things will be, will pass the smell test at that point.