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Fox News Accidentally Reveals Anti-Mamdani Blackmail Plot Live on Air

Fox News Accidentally Reveals Anti-Mamdani Blackmail Plot Live on Air

What might have been leaked audio in a more-just world is said straight-to-camera in this one

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Remember a time when mafia politics were a backroom secret, making headlines only when an informant leaked audio to a scandal-hungry public?

Those days are dead.

On Fox News this week, a plot was hatched straight-to-camera, detailing how, in order to kneecap “socialist” NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, they would blackmail current Mayor Eric Adams out of the race.

“It has to be a head-to-head of Cuomo vs Mamdani,” schemes the Fox panel. “And it has to be Eric Adams who drops out. Frankly, I think it’s great that business leaders are pouring money into this race, our city really depends on getting rid of this person.”

Then they begin to hatch their plan: “Why don’t they sit down with Eric Adams and say, ‘either we’re going to provide you with a wonderful sinecure job and you happily get out of the race, or we’re going to make your life absolute sheer hell.”

And all the while during these live-to-the-nation backroom dealings, a banner hangs over the panel’s heads that says:

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