That’s rich.
Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.
Mamdani recently told NBC News’ “Meet the Press, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly” while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor.
But in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.
Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP — which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo — has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc.
And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities — including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records.
All those groups backed the Queens assemblyman’s mayoral campaign – as well as his Marxist agenda that includes advocating for criminal migrants and condemning Israel.
“While Zohran Mamdani attacks job creators and rails against wealth, the truth is he’s benefiting from millions in support from billionaires and the very nonprofit network he pretends to stand apart from,” Mayor Eric Adams told The Post.
“You can’t have it both ways. We need leadership that brings people together — not politicians who demonize success while quietly cashing in on it,” added Adams, a registered Democrat seeking re-election as an independent.
The mayor touted he’s a great example of the “American Dream,” considering he was born into poverty 64 years ago in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and now runs the “greatest city in the world.”
“The idea that billionaires or successful people shouldn’t exist isn’t just extreme — it’s un-American,” Hizzoner added.
Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for the conservative anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, said no one should be surprised Soros’ money is quietly driving Mamdani’s campaign.
“George Soros is like a comic-book villain, James Bond villain who’s funding a movement designed to undermine individual freedom and liberty across the globe,” said Kellogg.
“And he’s been doing it for years, and he’s continues to do it and finds new effective faces to put in front on it. If communism and socialism was popular, he wouldn’t have to spend so much money and take so much time to try to achieve it.”
Kellogg also said he believes there will be a mass Big Apple exodus of “productive, law-abiding citizens who make New York great” if Mamdani is mayor, “so the taxpayers and businesses have a lot to lose.”
Although Soros and his family didn’t directly donate to Mamdani’s campaign, Patrick Gaspard, a former Open Society Foundations president who is now a distinguished senior fellow for a liberal think tank heavily funded by Soros called Center for American Progress, did play a key role.
Gaspard, a longtime pal of far-left ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio who served as a top aide to former President Barack Obama, quietly helped guide Mamdani throughout the campaign, the New York Times reported.
This included Gaspard meeting up with Mamdani and City Comptroller Brad Lander last month at Yara, a Midtown Lebanese restaurant, where over plates of fattoush, hummus and eggplant both mayoral candidates agreed to cross-endorse each other to help defeat Cuomo.
Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa said he believes Mamdani “doesn’t want to get rid of billionaires. He only wants to destroy the ones who don’t bankroll his radical agenda.”
“If you’re George Soros or part of the far-left donor class, you get a free pass and a seat at the table,” he said.
“Mamdani will drive out everyone else and turn New York into a city run by untouchables, where the Soros machine calls the shots.”
Billionaire John Catsimatidis, who owns the Gristedes supermarket chain, said Mamdani should be more transparent about his ties to Soros.
“I think America is the land of the free, and if it’s billionaires . . . who are providing jobs, what is wrong with that?” said Catsimatidis.
New York City is home to more billionaires than any city in the world — 123.
Both Mamdani and Catsimatidis have butted heads over the Democratic Socialist’s pie-in-the-sky pledge to establish city-run grocery stores.
Catsimatidis has threatened to sell his stores if Mamdani is elected mayor, but said this week it’s more likely he’d “reduce operations.”
Neither Soros nor Mamdani returned requests for comment.
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