We all know that Politifact is merely an extension of the Democratic Party and the Pravda Media.
So it shouldn't surprise us that they pick and choose who and what to fact-check, and do more than their fair share of spinning. But usually they try to have a plausible argument for their spin.
Not this time. Their spin is so transparent that it reads like a parody.
A few days ago, the "fact-checking" organization refuted President Trump's accusation that Zohran Mamdani is a communist.
If we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production. https://t.co/yd6Kjjo0gS
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) December 2, 2020
The accusation was unequivocally false, they claimed. Total fabrication. Another example of President Trump lying.
A good reminder that Politifact is not a serious or reliable fact-checking organization. pic.twitter.com/bE2JmE8iov
— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 30, 2025
When X users started trotting out Mamdani quotes about "seizing the means of production," they didn't revise their conclusion in the least. Instead, they sought to provide context and suggested that he was ambiguous about his goals. They even found a professor--you always need "experts" when you are shopping lies--to back up their conclusion that Mamdani really is just a garden variety liberal who just want everybody to be nice.
After being confronted with clear evidence that Mamdani has advocated for Communism, Politifact still defends their “false” rating because they found an “expert” from academia who spins his comments as “lighthearted hyperbole”.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 4, 2025
A completely unserious fact-checking org. https://t.co/FS1JA94l4P pic.twitter.com/8oDrUzUCJn
Politifact is going to great lengths to cover for Mamdani, and has somehow concluded that the failure of the candidate to call himself a communist in his campaign platform is sufficient evidence that he is not, in fact, a communist. This is as convincing as concluding that North Korea is democratic because it calls itself the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
After reviewing the tape and re-interviewing experts, we decided not to change our False rating. Mamdani’s views in the mayoral race do not reflect communism, and experts found his 2021 remark too brief to reach detailed conclusions.
Mamdani has provided plenty of evidence that he is a communist: aside from calling for seizing the means of production, he has quoted Marx online and called himself a "BMW Bolshevik."
A Mamdani campaign spokesperson, Andrew Epstein, said, "There is nothing in his platform or in his record regarding seizing the means of production." On NBC’s Meet the Press, Mamdani said that he is not a communist and is fighting for working people and against income inequality.
It's not in his platform! Well, enough said then.
Zohran Mamdani: I’m a Communist!
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 7, 2025
Politifact: False. Our experts tell us he was mistaken about his self-identification.
"But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel), right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.
"And what I want to say is that it is critical that the way that we organize, the way that we set up our you know, set up our work and our priorities, that we do not leave any one issue for the other, that we do not meet a moment and only look at what people are ready for, but that we are doing both of these things in tandem, because it is critical for us to both meet people where they're at and to also organize and organize for what is correct and for what is right and to ensure over time we can bring people to that issue."
Mamdani has railed against profit, called for state-run grocery stores, and has made clear that Democratic Socialism is just an attractive-sounding way of saying communist. And in that video, where he refers to seizing the means of production, he explicitly states that you must run on issues that attract people while working more quietly on issues where people are not yet in favor.
Each according to their need, each according to their ability
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) May 27, 2020
As you would expect, Politifact began with their conclusion--Trump is lying, and the Democrat is just a super nice guy who wants everybody to be happy--and worked their way back from there. The truth or falsity of a statement doesn't correspond to any set of facts, but rather to who they want in power.
There is a reason why I keep saying "Pravda Media," and you just saw it.
