Zohran Mamdani
Role at the time: Mayor of New York City, in an interview with PIX11's Henry Rosoff
Response to this claim
Weaver later described private property, especially homeownership, as a weapon of white supremacy presented as wealth-building policy.
“Obviously, that's not an opinion that I share”
Fox News Digital report quoting Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Thursday, January 8, 2026 answer to PIX11 reporter Henry Rosoff, who asked about Weaver's 2019 post calling homeownership a weapon of white supremacy. The report embeds a Fox News clip of the question and answer; we could not locate the full PIX11 interview.
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The reference point is Weaver's posts on homeownership and the white middle class. Mamdani distances himself from her view that homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy while defending her appointment and record, two materially different positions in one answer, so we labeled it Mixed or conditional. Condemned loses because he does not criticize the remark beyond saying he does not share it, and Defended or excused loses because his defense is of her work rather than the wording. Evidence level: a Fox News clip of the question and answer, checked by ear, and a Fox News Digital report quoting it; we could not locate the full PIX11 interview.