SATURDAY: Another Communist / Bolshevik spotted!

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026

Also, Gotham crime runs rampant: This very morning, we were surprised to learn what Mayor Mamdani has done.   

How will his term as mayor turn out? We have no idea! And of course, he's only been mayor since January 1. How much could he have done?

How will his tenure turn out? We plan to wait and see! But he has already let crime "sort of run rampant" in New York City—or so Rachel Campos-Duffy, the genial co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, told Fox viewers this very morning, early in the 7 o'clock hour.

Right at 7:08 a.m., Campos-Duffy delivered that newsflash, referring to "the crime that Mamdani has allowed to, you know, sort of run rampant in the city because he doesn't care about that." 

Moments later, she turned to extremely familiar ground, saying that "his instincts are Communist. They're Bolshevik." 

At 7:11, she said that one of Mamdani's policies is "very Communist." But so it goes on this Fox News Channel program, which we would be willing to classify as an imitation of life.

How will the Bolshevik mayor's term turn out? We're willing to wait and see! We can show you what we found when we checked the surprising assertion that the mayor has been letting crime ("sort of") run rampant in New York City's streets.

When we googled the surprising claim, an infallible news source—"AI Overview"—instantly told us this:

"As of April 2026, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration reported record-low crime stats in his first 100 days, including significant drops in murders and shootings."  

So said AI Overview! When we clicked to the source for the Overview's claim. we found this transcript of an April 2 press event about this important topic:  

Transcript: Mayor Mamdani and NYPD Announces Fewest Murders, Shooting Incidents in Recorded History for First Three Months of the Year  

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani: Good morning, everyone. It is a pleasure to be here with you at 1 Police Plaza and to be joined by so many committed public servants. Thank you to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch for your leadership and your partnership. I also want to extend my gratitude to Chief of Department Mike LiPetri and the members of the NYPD executive staff.  

[...] 

The data we are releasing today should be encouraging to every New Yorker. The numbers tell a clear, indisputable story: our approach to public safety is working. Crime continues to decrease in New York City.   

In the first three months of the year, New York City has recorded the fewest murders and shooting incidents since we began tracking these numbers, decades ago. This quarter, we saw 54 murders across the five boroughs, a drop from the previous record low of 60, set in 2018. When you compare these figures to last year, which had already set historic lows for gun violence, murders fell by a significant 28 percent. Year-to-date, the murder rate is down by more than 57 percent in Brooklyn, [and] more than 44 percent in Manhattan, and there have been no murders on Staten Island in 2026. In fact, it has now been 178 days since the last murder on Staten Island, the second-longest period in recorded history.   

Additionally, overall crime in public housing fell 7.2 percent year-to-date and reached record lows for murders, shooting incidents, shooting victims and robberies. None of that is accidental. It is a direct result of the hard work and commitment of so many in this room...There is always more work to be done, as we can see in the 11.7 percent rise in hate crimes across our city, with the largest increase being of anti-Muslim hate crimes, a 140 percent increase, as antisemitic hate crimes continue to comprise more than half of the total number.   

Major crime is down in nearly every category, however, across our five boroughs. The Bronx leads the city in overall major crime declines, with a 9.4 percent decrease. And I want to thank every member of the NYPD for all that they do to keep every corner of our city safe from violence.   

You can read the full transcript yourself.  When we googled, we saw no reports challenging the accuracy of those data. As you can see, this editorial by the anti-Mamdani New York Post accepted the numbers as accurate.  

Our conclusions go something like this: 

If you read the anti-Mamdani New York Post, "The first quarter of the year saw the fewest murders and shooting incidents in recorded history, plus excellent news on subway crime, retail theft and even record lows in murders and robberies in public housing." 

That's what readers have been told by the anti-Mamdani New York Post. But if you watched this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend, you were told that the city's very Communist, Bolshevik mayor is letting crime run rampant, driving tourism away!  

Can a modern nation function this way? You're asking a major question. But she always knows where the Bolsheviks are, and her two co-hosts play along!