The Daily Blast: Trump’s Threat to Jail Foes Darkens, Prompting Epic Retort from Zohran

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This week, President Donald Trump issued many angry threats against Zohran Mamdani, the underdog winner of New York Democratic mayoral primary. Trump has been attacking Mamdani, a state Assemblyman, as a “Communist,” threatening to arrest him along with other foes, and questioning Mamdani’s U.S. citizenship, hinting at a possible effort to try to strip his citizenship. What caught our eye is Mamdani’s response: It was sharply worded, illuminated the real stakes in this battle in a novel way, and effectively declared that the threat posed by Trump’s secret police to immigrants actually threatens us all. Democrats can learn from this, because Trump’s threats to denaturalize foes may soon become real. We talked to David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. He explains what Trump would need to do to denaturalize Mamdani and other political opponents, what liberals and Democrats be preparing for right now, and why basic freedoms are hanging in the balance—for all of us. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	This week, President Donald Trump has spent a lot of time issuing angry threats against Zoran Mamdani, who recently pulled off a shocking underdog victory in New York City's
1:08.3	Democratic mayoral primary. Trump has been attacking Mamdani as a communist and questioning his U.S. citizenship,
1:16.0	which hints at a coming effort to try to strip that citizenship from him.
1:20.7	What really caught our eye, though, is Mamdani's response to Trump.
1:25.1	It was very sharply worded and quickly laid out the real stakes of this battle.
1:29.3	This is something we think Democrats can learn from because it's becoming clear that Trump's threats to denaturalize political opponents may be on the way to becoming a real thing.
1:39.3	So can Trump denaturalize Mamdani and other political opponents?
1:44.9	What would that look like and what should liberals and Democrats be preparing for right now?
1:49.8	Today we're trying to figure all this out with one of our favorite immigration analysts, David Beer of the Cato Institute.
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2:01.8	So let's start with Trump's deranged threats. This week, Trump was asked about Mondani's claims that he will
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