Zohran Mamdani, a leading progressive candidate for NYC mayor, ripped conservative City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on Tuesday for suggesting he should be deported from the U.S. for his political views, calling her comment “a reflection” of how President Trump has emboldened “extremists.”

Paladino, one of the Council’s most right-leaning members, lobbed the attack late Monday, claiming on X it’s “insane” that Mamdani was elected to the state Assembly in 2020 even though he had been a U.S. citizen for less than a decade and is “a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country.”

“Deport,” Paladino concluded the post , which included photos of Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and became a U.S. citizen in 2018.

In a statement on Tuesday, Mamdani, who is Muslim, said h

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