‘Disqualified!’ Kayleigh McEnany Tears Into Zohran Mamdani’s Fox News Interview

 

Fox News’s Kayleigh McEnany went off on Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Thursday for refusing to directly say Hamas should disarm in an interview on the network the day prior.

McEnany addressed Mamdani’s interview on Outnumbered, where she declared the self-described Democratic socialist should be “disqualified from polite society” for his answer on whether Hamas should disarm amid a ceasefire agreement with Israel.

“I found him to be disqualifying,” McEnany said, focusing in on Mamdani’s Hamas comments.

In the Wednesday interview between Mamdani and Fox’s Martha MacCallum, Mamdani repeatedly refused to say directly that Hamas should lay down their arms.

Check out the exchange below:

MACCALLAUM: Do you believe that Hamas should lay down their weapons, and leave the leadership in Gaza?

MAMDANI: I believe that any future here in New York City is one that we have to make sure that’s affordable for all. And as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, that we need to ensure that there is peace, and that is the future that we fight for.

MACCALLUM: But you won’t say that Hamas should lay down their arms and give up leadership in Gaza?

MAMDANI: I don’t really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety, and the fact that anything has to abide by international law. And that applies to Hamas, that applies to the Israeli military, applies to anyone you could ask me about.

McEnany argued Mamdani saying he doesn’t have “opinions” about the future of Hamas was a “disqualifying statement. She went on to note some of the horrific conditions hostages of Hamas faced in Gaza, as well as children killed by Hamas on Oct. 7.

She said:

Let us meet Rom Breslavski. Rom Breslavski, his mom said that he was kept by the bodies of hostages in a room, violently beaten, tortured, denied basic hygiene, and then force-fed before he was sent home. And then, of course, we brought up their picture so many times, Kfir Bibas, Ariel Bibas who were literally strangled by Hamas and killed. And Zohran Mamdani cannot say whether terrorists who killed those two little boys were disarmed. You are disqualified from leading a grocery store. You should be disqualified out of polite society. Those two little boy should be here. No terrorists should have arms.

Watch above via Fox News.

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Zachary Leeman covered pop culture and politics at outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, BizPac Review, HollywoodinToto, and others. He is the author of the novel Nigh. He joined Mediaite in 2022.