On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, is a Marxist and an Islamist who supports Hamas slogans, the BDS movement, and holds anti-Semitic views, though he reportedly denies these claims. If voted Mayor of NYC he will cause New York City’s decline, with good people leaving and radical Islamists arriving. Mamdani’s positions, including his criticism of Israel and Marxist beliefs, are incompatible with American values and pose a threat to New York City, particularly given its large Jewish population. Mamdani’s nomination reflects a broader strategy by Islamists to infiltrate American institutions. We need to confront these ideologies directly. Also, ‘Pardon Me’ Steve Bannon is deceiving hardworking, middle-class, blue-collar conservatives and MAGA supporters. Bannon is a con artist who leaked information against President Trump and his family, resulting in his White House dismissal in Trump’s first term. He is fake MAGA, exploiting the conservative movement for personal gain; we need to recognize his deception. He is the establishment and is undermining Trump’s presidency. Later, Trump explained of Truth Social that he was shocked that there was an ongoing legal witch hunt against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite his leadership in a historic victory against Iran. Netanyahu is an unparalleled warrior who eliminated a significant nuclear threat. Trump demands the trial’s immediate cancellation or a pardon for Netanyahu. Finally, Rep Byron Donalds calls in and defends Trump’s decision to neutralize Iranian nuclear sites, calling it the absolute right call and praises Trump for succeeding where past presidents, particularly Obama and Biden, failed by empowering Iran through misguided policies like those of Robert Malley. Donalds emphasizes Trump’s clear stance against Iran possessing nuclear weapons while avoiding ground troop deployment, aligning with an America First policy.
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Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Man, do we have a lot to do? All I think you’ll find compelling and important. This guy Zoran Mamdani is at it. Mr.. They’re going to make sure I learn how to pronounce his name. He’s got the Democrat nomination. He is a Islamist. Islamist who embraces the terror slogan of Hamas. But it doesn’t mean to. Who embraces BDS? But he doesn’t mean to is a full scale anti-Semite. But he denies that we’re going to get into him. Trust me on this, because if he gets elected, you can say goodbye to New York City, the greatest city in America. It is. I’m a Philadelphian, but we know what’s what’s what. So we have to fight this. And can you imagine all the good people leaving New York? And then the certain people who flock into New York. Again, I’m not talking about Muslims. I’m talking about radical Islamists, like the kind you’ve seen at Columbia, NYU, and all the rest of it. And the media will say, well, that’s bigoted and bigoted. I didn’t attack Muslims, attacked the Islamists, but we don’t really give a damn what the left thinks. They’re destroying our country. But here’s the deal, folks. I’ve been behind this microphone almost 25 years, and I learned from the greatest. Rush Limbaugh was a close, close friend of mine. As is my brother, Sean HANNITY. And there are other great people in this business, too. But I’ve told you many times. Rush Limbaugh always said, respect your audience. He loved his audience. You, my wonderful audience. He loved you as I do. But it’s important that some policing goes on, that there’s some integrity in people. Who come to conservatives, hard working men and women. Middle class, blue collar. Who come to them. And lied to them. Lied to you? My people in my audience slide a rush’s old audience for Hannity’s audience lie to Republicans and conservatives and MAGA just lie. They conceal who they are, they deceive who they are. I’ve spent weeks now exposing chats where Qatar Carlson. He’s a snake. It’s a fraud. He’s a phony. I have not spent enough time on. A true fraudster. Steve Bannon. He’s a con man. He’s a con artist. You need to know about this man. The media love him. Why? Because he’s a leaker. New York against President Trump. He leaked against his family when he’s at the White House. One of the reasons they kicked his considerable ass out of there. It’s because he’s a leaker. They leak to the left wing media, as Carlson did and does that was exposed Katara Swan as article after article, text after test. Smearing Donald Trump. Not just policy. No, just attacking him as a human being. And Bannon has done the same thing and it all came to a head. Now, when the president decided, I’ve got to take out these nuclear sites. In Iran, because you see these guys are invested and with newsletters and platforms and and God knows what. They’re grifters. That’s the bottom line. Like Rush used to say, follow the money. Defending Qatar, defending Iran. I don’t even think they’re really isolationists. I think they embrace our enemies, that they’re thoroughly un-American. What explains their conduct? They accused Trump of. Starting World War Three are going to start World War three complicity. In the lead up. To a military operation against the enemy. That’s not what red blooded Americans think. That’s not what patriotic Americans think. Now I want you to listen to this. You draw your own conclusions. The wrap. Steve Bannon pleads guilty in scheme to steal $15 million from border wall donors. That’s you. You. You were the mark. Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump ally and former chief strategist, avoided jail time by pleading guilty Tuesday. This is February 20, 25. This a few months ago. To defrauding donors who thought their money was being used to help build a wall at the southern border of the United States. You were the target. Pena was charged with five felony counts and faced up to 15 years in prison. The guilty plea filed in New York Criminal court allows Bannon to avoid jail time as long as he does not commit any more crimes while. And the plea comes with a three year conditional discharge and waives his right to appeal. Bannon is not required to pay restitution. He was indicted in 2022 on state charges, including money laundering, conspiracy and fraud. After creating an online fundraising campaign titled Rebuild the Wall. The donations were promoted to be used to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, according to reports. Bannon and his partners raised over a $15 million. I’m just reading the news. I started looking at this. It was humble. And this is not this is the least of it. There’s more. This was not the first time Tanner was charged with a defrauding scheme. He was charged in 2020 by federal prosecutors in a different case. However, he was pardoned by Donald Trump during the final hours of his first term. The same Donald Trump who stabs in the back. Think about that. Politico. Bannon ally, Chinese billionaire, arrested on fraud charges. How many of you know Chinese billionaires who arrested on fraud charges? This guy presents himself as the everyday American. Federal prosecutors in New York arrested exiled Chinese billionaire and Steve Bannon, ally. When girl Wednesday morning. This is 2023 on charges that he and his financier orchestrated a more than $1 billion fraud scheme aimed at Google’s hundreds of thousands of online followers. That was also goes by the name of Miles Kwok and his financer. We’re charged in any 12 can indictment with wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, money laundering that goes on. 2020. Bannon was arrested on federal fraud charges while abroad while aboard the guy’s yacht. Bannon pleaded not guilty, was subsequently pardoned on those charges by former President Donald Trump. I don’t know all the ins and outs of this. The article goes on and on and on, but he needed a pardon. So let’s just let’s just some this up guy gets a pardon on federal charges. The guy pleads guilty to state charges. A ripping off. Average Americans who think they’re donating for a war. Pretty heavy, don’t you think? And here’s The New York Post. 2021 Trump pardons former White House strategist Steve Bannon. President Trump on Tuesday night pardoned former campaign aide and White House strategist. And of course, Trump fired him from the White House because he wouldn’t stop leaking leaking on his co-workers. Apparently like Jared Kushner. And then some guy writes a book, I think his name was Wolf, and he basically accuses Don Jr of treason. And that was it for Trump. He kicked his fat ass out of the White House. Now, this guy, by the way, has called for the investigation and deportation of Elon Musk. He’s called for the investigation of Kayleigh MCENANY, Sean HANNITY, the Murdochs and me. Meaning he wants us prosecuted and thrown in prison because we support Israel. This guy said today that Israel is not our ally, that we should drop Israel. So like Qatar, often they side with the enemy. And they’re incessant leakers like Qatar Olsson. They condemn the left wing media. They are the left wing media. They work with the left wing media. Says here, New York Post banner was accused of scamming $1 million from donors to the We Build the Wall Go Fund Me campaign launched by U.S. Air Force Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage who lost three limbs. This horrible. Horrible. There seems to be no line this guy won’t cross. But this scam was obviously aimed at you. He was busted in August aboard the Lady Mae, a $28 million yacht owned by Chinese billionaire I mentioned before. Bannon’s pardon was among a wave of last minute clemencies. The White House was expected to announce ahead of the Biden inauguration while he got it. He got it. It goes on. There’s many more details here. We’re not going to spend all day on this, but I feel I have a public service responsibility as a Trump supporter, as a MAGA supporter, as a conservative, as a radio host who has spent decades trying to build this movement. You know, Bill Buckley through the John Birch Society, out of the conservative movement. These people are not MAGA, they are fake MAGA. They have latched on to this. They’re grifters. That’s what they are. I know you’ve heard of them. I know you thought. Good. There are no good. Now they can come back with all the names and smears. And I’m a Jew and, you know, Tel Aviv and all that. I don’t mind Tel Aviv, Mark. Because I don’t hate Israel. But here’s the thing, Bannon. You’re always going to be a fraud for the rest of your life. That’s your legacy. You’re a crook. He confessed to it. They keep your fat ass out of prison. That’s what she did. I’ve never been on a boat with a Chinese billionaire who’s charged with crimes either. I’ve never needed a pardon from President Trump either. There was a great piece written. Wish I had known about it earlier. In the hill. Maybe somebody named John Mcgilligan. Steve Bannon wants you to believe his award general for the Forgotten Man, a blue collar prophet in cargo pants, ready to torch the global elites on behalf of truckers and farmers. But strip away the flannel and fury. Now, what you’ll find is in a popular sits a financier. A Hollywood operator. A man where $20 Million LARPing as a cold dusted crusader for the common man. This is the hustle. Bennett talks like a patriot but lives like a prince. He rails against the globalists while building his own global network. He warned you about the machine, even as he becomes a vital geezer in it. Let’s rewind. Before Breitbart, before the War Room podcast, which should be called the Fraud Room before the MAGA movement and talk of deconstructing the administrative state. Bannon was something far less revolutionary a banker, and not just any banker. He was a high powered executive at Goldman Sachs, the very temple of global finance. He now pretends to rage against. He didn’t walk picket lines. He walked into boardrooms. He advised mergers and helped move capital around like like puzzle pieces in the portfolios of the powerful. He got in on the deals most Americans would never even hear about, let alone benefit from. One of those deals, Seinfeld. After leaving Goldman, he began his own firm and worked with Westinghouse to successfully acquire a minority stake in Castle Rock Entertainment, the producer of Seinfeld. As part of that deal. Bannon accepted a stake in the royalties of this show a wholly macro. So why do you have to defraud people? Isn’t that enough? Translation Every time you left at Kramer’s entrance, Barney got. Rich, white, working class Americans were juggling bills and wondering if they can afford another tank of gas. Boehner was catching passive income from a sitcom about nothing. And when that well started to run dry, he pivoted to image. He went Hollywood. He did not go as a writer, a director, but as a producer. The shadowy figure behind the scenes raising money, shaping narratives, angling for influence. He produced a slate of forgettable documentaries with big ambitions and a little reach, hoping to strike gold, or at least strike a nerve. He sniffed around the Vanity Fair circuit, elbowed his way through the fringes of Los Angeles power lunch culture tried to matter in rooms for creative types mingled with capital. But it didn’t stick. He was too blunt, too ideological, too out of place. So he rebranded. When the red carpet didn’t welcome, he found an alternative stage. He embraced Carhartt cosplay, grew out the hair, declared himself a champion of the people. But make no mistake, he never stopped living like royalty. His personal life was padded by all Goldman money. The bank account never left Bel-Air. The Rolex never came off. He wasn’t just out of touch with the working class. He was orbiting them from space, occasionally parachuting down to give a speech about sovereignty and struggle, then retreating back to his fortified compound of fine Scotch. Deceit and duplicity are Bugs and Bannon’s matrix. They’re part of the operating system. I’m going to take a break and finish the article, and then we’re going to move on. But you need to know. You need to know who this fraudster is, who these grifters are, and how they operate. They are the establishment. They are the establishment. And they’ve been undermining President Trump’s administration. Left and right. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
These people have absolutely nothing in common with you. We talk about the common man. They’re utterly uncommon. They view you as a mark, as targets. They’re demagogues. They’re propagandists. Nobody wanted to stand up to the made people come anymore. What do we do about this? What do we do about this? Finally, I said, I’ll tell you, I’ll do something about it. I’m not going to allow the millions and millions of people. Conservative patriots, Tea Party, Reagan Revolution, Trump Revolution, MAGA, whatever. Fall victim to these grifters. I’m not going to allow it. Now I’ve posted plenty. You’re welcome to read it or not. But you need to be very careful what you’re dealing with here. Very. They’re sinister and they’re out for themselves. I’m going to finish with Bannon when we return. And then we’re going to move on. We’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Let me finish with this article on Bannon. Throw him out with the rest of the garbage. And I’ve. I’ve done my job. I believe my job is to serve my audience here and to alert you and so many Americans who work hard about what what’s going on here? You know, this guy, Qatar Olsen, among other thing, he’s a trust fund baby with the Swanson frozen food family. I don’t hold that against him. I really don’t. But he ought to stop pretending he’s a common man, a blue collar guy when he was born with a silver, no platinum spoon in his mouth. Same with Fatboy here. The Rosie O’Donnell lookalike. And so this gentleman writes Jack Mcgilligan, a writer and researcher who explores culture, society, the impact of technology on daily life. At the wrap. Take the infamous build the Wall scheme, for example, Bannon raised millions of dollars from ordinary Americans, promising every penny would go to the wall. Trump couldn’t finish, he said. And what? And what happened? The money vanished into private pockets, luxury expenses, personal salaries. Bannon was arrested on a Chinese billionaire yacht lounging in luxury while federal agents boarded. He was spared only by a last minute Trump pardon. Yet somehow that only added to his legend. Then came the supergroup Pitch a Global Nationalist Alliance, a Global Nationalist Alliance conferences and hungry meetings in Rome and whispered influence over several European populists. Bannon wasn’t interested in saving Main Street. He was franchising the culture war, exporting MAGA aesthetics to every corner of the globe, not because he believed in the cause, but because there’s always a market for outrage. This is not the story of a man who joined the people. It’s the story of a man who studied them, branded them and built a media empire on their backs. He frames everything as a spiritual battle. America versus the elites. But Bannon is the elite. He just speaks rage fluently. So here’s the question. If a man tells you he’s at war with the empire while still cashing royalty checks from it, do you believe him or do you finally see it for what it is? As the writer, Bennett is not a warrior for the working man. He’s a salesman in battle gear with a podcast mic and a passport full of donor meetings. He doesn’t live among the people, he studies them. Scripts are angry, sells it back to them. He rebranded himself so many times. This reminds me Katara often rebranding himself so many times. He’s rebranded himself so many times that the gentleman writes naval officer, investment banker and Hollywood producer, political strategist. You’d think he was running a hedge fund and identity. And in a way, he is each persona carefully tailored to meet the moment, each pivot engineered for maximum leverage. The flannel, the Catholic mysticism, the bunker aesthetic. It’s all part of the shameless act. Underneath is a machiavellian tactician who understands power not as something to dismantle, but to inhabit. Part P.T. Barnum. Part Pat Buchanan. This is a man who preaches humility while flying. Private Steve Bannon isn’t leading a rebellion. He is selling one. You can look all this stuff up yourself, folks. The charges, the guilty pleas, the pardon, the money, the charity, it’s all there. And what will happen tonight or tomorrow is you will see a. About six or 12 articles by the the sort of the the central press with headlines trying to tell you that this is a battle within MAGA. This is a civil war within MAGA. A battle that this is Levine versus this one or Levine. There is none of that. It is none of that. I came to the defense of the president. I came to the defense of the American armed forces. That’s what I do. I came to the defense of freedom for our country and our allies in Israel who are under attack. That’s all I did. And so the flak came in from these guys, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit still like everybody else. When these thugs gather, they gather in a group. That’s what they do. They interview each other. They promote each other. They write about each other because they have to protect what they have. 94% of Republican MAGA supported what Donald Trump did. Not one of these guys did. Not one. They warned you about World War Three. They warned you about the Jews dragging us into another war. They warned you about the price of fuel going to $30 a gallon when it actually fell. Everything they said, all their fear mongering proven wrong. And you know what? I hate to say this. They’re sitting on the end of the edge of their chairs if something happens. They want to attack Trump and me and the people who spoke out. And basically what they’re attacking is the United States military. The United States military. Which they trash all the time. All the time. Here’s the deal. The good guys won. Our armed forces won a great commander in chief, a brilliant one. Our great allies, the Israelis, our great friend, Prime Minister Netanyahu. They won. The allies won. You won. We won. The truth has been exposed. These guys have been exposed. All of them. It’s out there to read. You can read it. Or not. These are facts. Facts. Read it or not. Don’t worry about the names they use slogan ears, isolationists or slogan ears. That’s what their Marxist slogan is. Islamists are slogan. White supremacist slogan is. The Black Panthers are slogan is. That’s the genre in which these guys swim. It’s the sewer. And I regret having to go into the sewer to deal with these guys, but that’s where they are. They’re sewer rats. And you got to go into the sewer to deal with them. The problem is I can climb out. They can’t. That’s their habitat. That’s what they do. They’re not MAGA. They’re not Reagan conservatives. They’re not Trump conservatives. They’re not patriots. They’re a disgrace. No, the president isn’t complicit in starting World War three, you jackass. Kathiresan. No, the president didn’t turn his back on maga, fat boy, you fraudster and I can go right down the list. These are the little niches they’ve carved out for themselves. Celebrate what we did to a tyrannical regime that has killed thousands and maimed thousands of American. Celebrate it. Not one not one of our military was harmed. Not one of our bombers was touched, celebrating. We want. We won. Is it that good? It’s great. And remember who was rooting for the enemy. Remember who was rooting for the enemy. They were. That’s not America first. That is disgusting. I want to read one other thing to you about our great president, and he is great. Does it mean you always have to agree with him, but you should never sabotage him and stab him in the back and call him the things that Olsen has called them done to him, what Bannon did to him when he took him into his confidence and brought him into the White House and he’s leaking left and right, pardon the fat ass. And even up to this point. Stabs him in the back in the lead up to war. Donald Trump just posted this breaking news. I was shocked to hear that the state of Israel, which has just had one of its greatest moments in history and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous wit witch hunt against their great wartime prime minister, Bibi. And I just went through hell together, fighting a very tough and brilliant, long time enemy of Israel. Iran and Bibi could not have been better, sharper or stronger in his love for the incredible holy land. Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment and chaos. Bibi Netanyahu was a warrior like perhaps no other warrior in the history of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought. That nobody thought for harder omer competently than Bibi Netanyahu. Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to court on Monday for the continuation of his long running. He has been going through this horror show since May 2020. Unheard of. This is the first time a sitting Israeli prime minister has ever been on trial this long running, politically motivated case concerning cigars, a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges. In order to do him great harm, such a witch hunt for a man who has given so much is unthinkable to me. He deserves much better than this, and so does the state of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be cancelled immediately, or a pardon given to a great hero who has done so. Much for the state. Perhaps there is no one that I know who could have worked in better harmony with the President of the United States me than Bibi Netanyahu. It was the United States of America that saved Israel. And now it’s going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu. This travesty of justice cannot be allowed. Capitals, exclamation mark. You know what Bannon said today? He trashed Netanyahu, said he was trying to drag us into a war, that we should drop Israel, that Israel’s not our ally. Does that sound. Does that sound right to you, America? These bigoted pigs are disgusting. They don’t represent you and me. When I was a young man, I admired Ronald Reagan. And we fight like hell to get him the nomination. And they tried to block and repeatedly. And over Donald Trump’s left shoulder in the Oval Office is a is the official portrait of Ronald Reagan. He’s a great admirer of Ronald Reagan, as I’ve come to learn. As I’ve come to learn. And I will tell you one other thing and then we’ll move on. When I met with President Trump on June 4th. I wasn’t seeking a pardon. I didn’t have to apologize for anything. He asked me to come meet with him. He’d asked me weeks before to come to dinner with my wife and him. I couldn’t make it work because I want to stay on radio TV. And do what I need to do. I told him I have to go to Florida. I go to Florida for several reasons, one of which is I have a very ailing older brother. I told him I can’t. He said, Well, look, Mark, as soon as you get back, contact me first. I want to I want you. I want to get you in here. That’s how that meeting occurred. I’m not going to get into the specifics. He was very inquisitive. He enquired of my views and let me just put it this way. Everything you hear me say. Everything. And consistent in private and public. I said to Mr. President, I’m being accused of leading a lobbying campaign of warmongers. And he left. Because he knows it’s a lie. He said, Mark, if I want to know what your views are, you know, and I do. I said, What, sir? I watch your Fox TV shows. 99% of what I know about your views. I watch on television with everybody else. You see, folks, the man has integrity. I like to think I have integrity. The people I’ve been talking to you about have no integrity. They’re operators. They’re looking for an angle. You’ll notice. At the inauguration. My wife and I. And he loves my wife even more than me. And he loves her because she’s a great patriot. And she came to his defense. And brought to serious matters in front of the Supreme Court, not the other arguments. The real matters involving the authority of states and the authority of the states in federal elections. And the court almost took it took a look at both those cases, but apparently they couldn’t get four justices where it is. They got three. And he always thanked her for that. All these people say Mark Never Trumper. One day because of Roger Stone, who I’ve come to like, I don’t know him, but I like the guy. He’s a fighter. I’ve been wrong about him. I think he’s been wrong about me. It doesn’t matter when that’s what she showed up at his house. It changed everything for me. Nobody should be treated like that. And I said, he said something. I said, I don’t remember what I did. I said, You know what? From Fordham, I never Trumper. And I’ve explained the story many times, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Donald Trump picked up the phone and he said, Roger’s a dear friend, but he doesn’t speak for me, not in this. And I went on the air and I explained I called it an atmosphere, but it. That’s my great Never Trumper. I fought harder in defense of Donald Trump. And he’s been under attack criminally and civil in five different jurisdictions. And he will be attacked again. And I will be loyal to him because he loves this country. He’s done so much good for this country. Look what he’s done to Iran that no other president would do or could do. And I will defend him, including against. Carlson. Bannon. Gates. Green with any. The rest of these bastards. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
So, America, we declare victory. And we move on. Unless they decide not to move on. We’ll see. But I think they’ve been exposed. They were not able to damage this military operation. Even for millions and millions of you. About this internal threat. The effort to hijack this MAGA movement, the conservative movement. You notice when President Trump says peace through strength, that’s Reagan, too, when he talks about. Make America Great again. That’s Reagan, too. I’m Reagan and Trump. Carlson was never around. These other guys were never around. But whether they’re around or not. Their exploitation is unacceptable. They don’t represent the forgotten man. Blue collar people. Working Americans. Electricians, plumbers, cops, firefighters. What have they done for you? What have they said about you? When we return, I want to focus in on this guy who wants to be mayor of New York City and why it is a national. A national concern. Grave concern. And no media. Not because he’s Muslim. It’s because he’s an Islamist who hates America and hates Jews. You know, media, you’ve been giving an awful lot of support to people like that. You’re highly contemptible and disgusting. The Hamas media, the Al Jazeera media. No, you don’t get the call us names. We call you names. I’ll be right back.