US Vice President JD Vance has made a sharp remark about Democratic leader Zohran Mamdani’s recent comments on Islamophobia, suggesting that Mamdani viewed his aunt, who stopped taking the subway after the 9/11 attacks, as the “real victim” of the tragedy.

“According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,” Vance said in a post on X on Saturday.

Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, had shared the story during a speech outside a Bronx mosque on Friday, where he condemned what he called “racist, baseless attacks” from political rivals.

“I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after September 11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab,” Mamdani had said, recalling the fear and discrimination

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