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Iran has warned that it will launch new attacks against Israel if President Donald Trump broadens the U.S. military campaign to include strikes on Tehran, according to a report Thursday citing two Iranian officials familiar with the country’s military planning.

The New York Times reported that the officials said Iran’s Armed Forces are preparing for the possibility that the conflict could intensify if Trump follows through on recent threats to target the Iranian capital and other key infrastructure.

According to the officials, any such escalation would trigger a broader regional response. They said Iran would target Tel Aviv with additional strikes and ask the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen to block the Bab al-Mandab Strait, one of the world’s most strategically important shipping routes connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

The warning came after Trump told Axios correspondent Barak Ravid on Thursday that he is weighing a military operation against Iran that would dwarf previous U.S. attacks.

“I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,” Trump said.

The president also said Israel would participate in the operation if requested, while emphasizing that the United States is fully capable of carrying out the strikes on its own.

Commenting on diplomatic efforts to restart negotiations aimed at ending the conflict, Trump argued that Tehran has not yet suffered enough consequences.

According to Trump, the Iranian regime has not “received enough pain yet.”

On Wednesday, Trump warned that the United States would begin targeting Iranian bridges and power plants if Tehran continued attacking international shipping in the region.

The latest threats come as reports indicate that Israeli defense officials increasingly believe the confrontation between the United States and Iran could expand into a wider regional war in the coming days, potentially including Iranian missile attacks against Israel.

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A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President JD Vance’s protective detail is under investigation over allegations that sensitive operational information may have been improperly disclosed, prompting both an internal administrative review and the possibility of a criminal inquiry.

Confirming the investigation, Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said the agent is facing scrutiny over allegations involving the handling of protected security information.

“A member of the Vice Presidential Protective Division is the subject of an administrative investigation, and potential criminal inquiry, involving allegations of compromising operational and information security,” Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement to Fox News.

While declining to discuss the specifics of the case, Guglielmi stressed that the agency takes any potential threat to the safety of those under its protection extremely seriously.

“Any conduct that potentially threatens the safety of a protectee will not be tolerated.”

The investigation comes just days after MS Now published a report describing growing frustration among members of Vance’s security detail over frequent last-minute travel requests involving the vice president and his family.

According to a follow-up report by the outlet, Vance’s office canceled plans for his son to travel by helicopter to a golf lesson one day after the story was published. Administration officials maintained that the proposed use of Marine Two—the official helicopter assigned to the vice president—was based on operational and security considerations.

“Compared to a motorcade, it drastically decreased the burden on local law enforcement and eliminated the inconvenience of road closures and disruptions to motorists along the long driving route,” the administration wrote in a statement to Fox News.

The MS Now report also cited current and former Secret Service personnel who said previous vice presidents generally avoided using costly government transportation for the convenience of their children’s schedules.

Agents interviewed by the outlet reportedly said the vice president’s frequent “off-the-record” (OTR) trips often force them to abandon personal plans while scrambling to develop security arrangements on short notice.

“The detail is tired of them not giving notice on things and making everything an OTR,” a person familiar with the detail’s frustration told the news outlet. “[Vance] thinks he can still move around like a U.S. senator.”

A spokesperson for Vice President Vance responded by praising the Secret Service for its professionalism while acknowledging the unique demands of protecting a vice president with young children and an unusually active schedule.

“While protecting a vice president with a large policy portfolio and a young and growing family presents a unique challenge, agents of the Secret Service do so with excellence every day,” the spokesperson said.

Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn also defended the dedication of the agency’s protective personnel, emphasizing the commitment required of agents assigned to high-profile details.

“Our agents work tirelessly to ensure protectees’ safety and security, while also preserving normalcy to the extent possible,” Quinn told Fox News. “We are committed to supporting our personnel, which requires around-the-clock dedication and discipline. This is a job that requires absolute dedication and discipline. There is no room for compromise.”

According to the report, frustration within the detail became so widespread that some agents created unofficial challenge coins and stickers poking fun at the vice president’s frequent last-minute travel. The items referenced Vance’s Secret Service code name, “Bobcat.”

Some coins reportedly read, “Bobcat OTR Survivors Club.”

Administration officials acknowledged that unexpected travel requests are sometimes unavoidable, arguing that the demands placed on Vance’s security team differ from those faced by previous vice presidents.

“Most past presidents and vice presidents have not had young children, and therefore the detail has not been presented with this nature of protective mandate,” the administration told Fox News.

“The Vice President is also a very active and involved Vice President, more so than recent officeholders,” the statement continued. “His unprecedented diplomatic role, for example, while critically important, has added new demands for a detail used to operating with lead times that are impossible in high-stakes diplomacy.”

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Sen. Ted Cruz is already looking ahead to the 2028 election cycle, predicting that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will seek the presidency while New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will ultimately replace Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Cruz argued that such a political realignment would signal a troubling direction for the Democratic Party, Newsweek reports.

In a video posted Thursday on X, the Texas Republican said he expects Ocasio-Cortez to launch a White House campaign and forecast that Mamdani will eventually succeed Schumer in the Senate. Cruz said some Republicans mistakenly celebrate what they view as increasingly left-wing Democratic candidates, but warned against taking that approach, describing his predictions as “bad for America.”

He later added that “this country needs two parties that actually love America.”

In a separate post on social media, Cruz predicted that Schumer’s political future in New York has effectively come to an end.

“Chuck Schumer is finished. He can never again win a Democrat primary in New York. He knows it. Which is why I joke that he will be the inaugural member of the AOC for President Campaign.”

Newsweek said it contacted the offices of Mamdani, Schumer, and Ocasio-Cortez by email seeking comment.

Cruz’s remarks come as speculation surrounding the 2028 presidential race continues to intensify, even though no major Democratic contender has formally entered the race. Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly been asked about a possible presidential campaign, fueling ongoing discussion about whether she could seek the nation’s highest office.

Her high national profile, enormous social media presence, and popularity among progressive Democrats have made her one of the party’s most closely watched political figures.

At the same time, Mamdani has emerged as one of New York’s leading progressive voices, prompting increasing speculation that he could pursue higher office in the years ahead.

Recent Democratic primary elections have underscored the growing strength of the party’s progressive wing, with several left-leaning candidates defeating more established rivals. Those victories have led many political observers to speculate that progressives could wield even greater influence over the Democratic Party heading into 2028.

The discussion also coincides with new polling that suggests the race for both parties’ nominations remains wide open.

Among Republicans, recent surveys continue to show Vice President JD Vance as one of the leading potential contenders, although Secretary of State Marco Rubio has narrowed the gap in newer polling, illustrating how fluid the political landscape remains.

No candidate from either party has officially announced a 2028 presidential campaign.

A University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll released Wednesday found Ocasio-Cortez leading the Democratic field with 22%, narrowly ahead of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 21%. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly received 9%, California Gov. Gavin Newsom garnered 8%, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders drew 6%, and former Vice President Kamala Harris received 5%. No other prospective candidate reached the 5% mark.

The survey questioned 648 likely Democratic presidential primary voters between July 15 and July 20 and carried a margin of error of 3.8 percentage points. It also surveyed 579 likely Republican primary voters during the same period, with a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points.

Asked about leading the poll, Ocasio-Cortez downplayed the results.

“I think there’s two things, one is that, you know, polls are polls, and a horse race is a horse race. I am, of course, I think, very deeply humbled and grateful to, you know, folks who participate and convey that confidence.”

She emphasized that her immediate political focus lies elsewhere.

“I think my main focus is really genuinely just the midterms right now, and we have to make sure that we win this majority,” Ocasio-Cortez later added.

A separate Emerson College poll released Thursday showed Buttigieg narrowly leading the Democratic field with 19%, while several other candidates remained close behind.

That survey found Newsom at 17%, with both Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Ocasio-Cortez receiving 13%. Harris polled at 8%, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear at 7%, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro at 5%, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker at 3%. Another 13% of respondents said they remained undecided.

Explaining some of the demographic trends in the Emerson survey, Executive Director Spencer Kimball said, “Ossoff was added to the Democratic ballot test this month, and entered at 13%, driven by stronger support among men, at 18%, compared to 8% among women,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said in the survey. “Newsom is strongest among women at 25%, compared to 8% of men. Similarly, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s support is higher among women, at 16%, compared to 9% of men. Buttigieg, on the other hand, has equal support among both men and women at 19%.”

The Emerson survey was conducted July 19-20 among 1,100 likely voters and reported a credibility interval of 2.9 percentage points.

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It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Moshe Rosenblum zt”l, an exceptional talmid chochom, lifelong marbitz Torah, and one of the senior editors of the ArtScroll Schottenstein Shas.

Rav Rosenblum was a noted talmid chochom whose profound mastery of Shas, Rishonim, and Acharonim was matched by extraordinary precision and intellectual rigor. Possessing remarkable breadth and depth in Torah, he devoted his life entirely to limud haTorah and harbotzas Torah.

For years, he served as one of the senior editors of the ArtScroll Schottenstein Shas, where his Torah knowledge, painstaking attention to detail, and unwavering commitment to accuracy left an indelible imprint on one of the most significant Torah publishing achievements of modern times.

Rav Rosenblum was also closely connected to the Mirrer Yeshiva through his marriage to Mrs. Maita Rosenblum a”h, who was a daughter of Rav Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz zt”l, rosh yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and a granddaughter of the legendary Rav Avrohom Kalmanowitz zt”l, the founding rosh yeshiva and visionary builder of the Mirrer Yeshiva in America. Mrs. Rosenblum passed away seven years ago.

Following their marriage, Rav and Mrs. Rosenblum established their home in Eretz Yisroel, where they immersed themselves in a life centered on Torah. Prior to the outbreak of the Gulf War, however, they relocated to the United States at the urging of Rav Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz zt”l and settled in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Mrs. Rosenblum devoted herself wholeheartedly to the Mirrer Yeshiva, serving for many years as one of its administrators. She carried out her responsibilities with extraordinary devotion, working b’lev v’nefesh on behalf of the yeshiva and its talmidim.

Throughout his life, Rav Rosenblum exemplified the ideals of unwavering hasmadah, humility, and complete devotion to Torah. Despite his extraordinary scholarship and the profound influence of his work, he remained exceptionally modest, preferring to remain behind the scenes.

One of the greatest personal tragedies he endured was the petirah of his beloved son, habochur Yisroel Elchonon (Sruly) z”l, who passed away in 2010. Despite carrying that immeasurable pain for the rest of his life, he faced the ordeal with remarkable emunah and bitachon. Rather than dwell on suffering, he consistently spoke about the boundless chesed of the Ribbono Shel Olam, inspiring those around him through his steadfast faith and quiet acceptance of the Divine will.

Rav Rosenblum is survived by his sons, R’ Avrohom Meir, R’ Eliyahu, R’ Aharon Leib, R’ Yaakov Yeshaya, R’ Boruch Dov, and R’ Yossi; his daughters, Mrs. Dassy Keller and Mrs. Rochel Wegh; and many grandchildren who continue in the family’s path of Torah and yiras Shomayim. As mentioned, he was predeceased by his wife, Mrs. Maita Rosenblum a”h, and by his son, habochur Yisroel Elchonon (Sruly) z”l.

Levayah arrangements will be published once they have been finalized.

Yehi zichro boruch.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced mounting criticism Thursday after waiting several hours to publicly address a stabbing attack that officials described as antisemitic, instead initially using social media to promote his proposed tax on luxury second homes while other elected officials quickly condemned the violence.

The mayor eventually released a statement after the attack, saying he had been briefed on the incident, which left a Jewish man and an Asian man wounded on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

“I have been briefed on today’s horrifying stabbings on the Upper West Side, where an Asian man and a Jewish man were attacked. According to witness and victim statements, the perpetrator yelled “Allahu Akbar” during both attacks. I am relieved that both victims are in stable condition,” Mamdani wrote in a statement.

“The NYPD responded immediately and arrested Raul Morales in connection with both assaults—and I am grateful to the officers for their swift response.”

Mamdani’s delayed public response drew criticism from some observers, who argued that his history of sharp criticism toward Israel has contributed to concerns that progressive leaders have been reluctant to forcefully confront antisemitism directed at Jewish communities.

New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov was among those who directly blamed the mayor for helping create the atmosphere surrounding the attack.

“According to credible reports I received, the attacker was yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ during his attempted murder. I pray for the speedy recovery of the victims. [Mamdani,] you got blood on your hands,” she wrote.

According to police, the first victim, a 57-year-old man, was attacked shortly after 1:30 p.m. near West 84th Street and Central Park West. Officers found him conscious and alert with a stab wound to his back before transporting him to a nearby hospital in stable condition.

A short time later, investigators located a second victim, a 50-year-old man, nearby with a stab wound to the torso. He was also conscious when first responders arrived and was taken to a hospital for treatment.

While several city officials publicly characterized the assault as an antisemitic stabbing, the New York City Police Department has not yet announced a motive or formally designated the incident as a hate crime as the investigation continues.

Police identified Raul Morales as the suspect and confirmed that he is in custody.

The attack quickly prompted condemnation from public officials and community leaders who expressed alarm over another violent incident involving a member of New York’s Jewish community.

“Disgusted by what appears to be another senseless attack on New Yorkers simply because they’re Jewish,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a post to X.

New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin also condemned the violence.

“While we await additional details to be confirmed, we know that what is happening in our city is abhorrent. The fear in the Jewish community is real. Every New Yorker deserves to feel safe in their neighborhood, regardless of their faith or identity,” Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, wrote in a post to X.

The attack also generated widespread reaction on social media, where some commentators linked the violence to the city’s increasingly heated political climate.

“A man yelling ‘allahu akbar’ stabbed a man in a kippah at 86th and Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side at 1:30 pm today, then likely stabbed someone else at 84th and Central Park West. Has apparently been caught. On the Jewish day of mourning. In Zohran Mamdani’s city,” another observer wrote.

As discussion of the stabbings spread online, Mamdani’s first social media post after the attack focused not on the violence but on his proposed pied-à-terre tax targeting owners of expensive second homes.

“If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you’ve got mail. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon,” Mamdani wrote at 3:55, almost two and a half hours after the attack.

According to NYPD statistics, the department received 146 hate-crime complaints during the first quarter of 2026 and made 71 arrests, up from 137 complaints and 51 arrests during the same period a year earlier.

Mamdani’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the timing of the mayor’s statement or whether any internal factors contributed to the delay.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) intensified his criticism of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday, declaring that he believes the mayor will eventually do something serious enough to warrant being arrested and sent to Guantánamo Bay, the U.S. military detention facility in Cuba commonly known as “Gitmo.”

Speaking during an interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson, Tuberville expressed disbelief that New York voters elected Mamdani to lead the nation’s largest city, arguing that the outcome reflects a broader political shift he believes threatens the country.

“For some reason, we have enough people in New York that would vote for this guy to run the largest and the most popular city in the world, just goes to show you how close we are to losing our country,” Tuberville, who won the Republican nomination in the Alabama governor’s race earlier this year, told conservative personality Benny Johnson in an interview while discussing Mamdani.

The Alabama Republican went on to predict that Mamdani would eventually cross a line that would justify federal action against him.

“Sooner or later, he will do something more stupid than what he’s done, to where we’ll finally say, ‘Enough’s enough,’ go putting handcuffs on him and get him the hell out of here and send him to Gitmo, because the guy hates this country, he wants to change it and that’s not going to happen,” he added.

Guantánamo Bay, often referred to simply as “Gitmo,” is best known as the U.S. military detention center that has housed terrorism suspects since the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The facility has long been the subject of international scrutiny over allegations of torture and detainee abuse during the War on Terror.

Tuberville has repeatedly criticized Mamdani in recent months. Earlier this year, the senator drew sharp backlash after posting a message linking the mayor’s Ramadan iftar event at City Hall to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The remarks prompted a wave of criticism from Democrats, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who called the Alabama senator “a racist piece of [garbage]” over the post.

Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, rose to national prominence after defeating former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in last year’s Democratic primary for mayor. Since then, he has become one of the Democratic Party’s most recognizable progressive figures.

His emergence has coincided with a string of victories by democratic socialist candidates in New York, Los Angeles, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., fueling debate over the growing influence of the party’s progressive wing.

Republicans in the House have increasingly pointed to those electoral gains as evidence of what they describe as a growing communist threat, arguing that some of the Democratic Party’s most left-wing candidates are advocating policies rooted in collective ownership rather than free-market principles.

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Senate Republicans on Thursday voted down an effort to advance legislation that would have required President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the conflict with Iran, signaling continued support for the administration’s military campaign despite growing unease among some GOP lawmakers over rising casualties and the length of the war.

The Senate rejected a procedural motion to bring the War Powers Resolution out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, defeating it by a vote of 47-49.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) broke with most Republicans by joining Democrats in favor of advancing the measure, while Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the lone Democrat to oppose it.

Several senators did not participate in the vote, including Republicans Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, both of whom have previously supported efforts to limit President Trump’s authority as commander in chief. Senate Republicans Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Katie Britt of Alabama were also absent.

Although he missed the vote, Paul reiterated this week that he believes the conflict has weakened the United States rather than strengthened it.

“I think the Iran war has not been a success. I’ve been opposed to the Iran war from the beginning. I think by any objective measure we’re worse off than we were before the war,” Paul said after a Senate hearing.

Other Republican senators also expressed concern about the direction of the conflict, citing increasing civilian casualties and uncertainty over the administration’s long-term strategy.

“There’s got to be an off-ramp, that’s all there is to it,” said Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.).

“Naturally all of us are concerned because we’ve lost three wonderful, wonderful service people in the last little while,” he said, referring to three U.S. service members who were killed in the past week.

On Wednesday, President Trump warned that if Iran attacks ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the United States would respond by striking civilian infrastructure, including bridges and power plants around Tehran.

The conflict has now claimed the lives of 18 American service members.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who introduced the resolution, argued that Congress needed to reassert its constitutional role as the war continues to expand following the collapse of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran.

“It’s the first resolution since shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has once again been ground to a halt,” he said. “More civilians have been killed as well, and the United States and Iran are now deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.”

Speaking against the proposal, Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), a former Navy SEAL, insisted that Iran’s ruling regime remains a grave threat that must be confronted militarily rather than restrained by congressional action.

“This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don’t care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us and they don’t just say it, they actually do it,” he said.

The Senate vote followed action earlier Thursday in the House of Representatives, where four Republicans joined Democrats in approving a separate War Powers Resolution directing President Trump to remove U.S. troops from the conflict unless Congress specifically authorizes military action.

The House approved the resolution by a vote of 214-208. Republicans Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania joined Democrats in supporting the measure.

The latest congressional debate comes after lawmakers approved another House-backed concurrent resolution in June calling on President Trump to end military operations against Iran. That vote prompted a contentious meeting at the White House on June 24 between the President and Senate Republicans.

Following that earlier vote, President Trump sharply criticized Republican senators who supported the resolution, directing particular frustration toward Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.

After that meeting, both Cassidy and Paul altered their positions. Senate Republicans subsequently defeated another war powers measure sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that sought to require an end to U.S. military involvement in the conflict.

Cassidy voted against Kaine’s proposal after receiving a White House briefing from Vice President JD Vance on the war, while Paul voted “present,” explaining that he wanted to “give the president more space and leverage to negotiate a lasting peace.”

Unlike the concurrent resolution approved in June—which carried no legal force and did not require the President’s signature—the legislation considered Thursday would have been legally binding if enacted into law.

Cassidy again voted against advancing the proposal on Thursday. Even if Congress had approved the measure, it would still have required President Trump’s signature before taking effect.

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Longtime New York real estate developer Charles Kushner says he is leaving New York for Florida, citing what he calls the antisemitism of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji as the primary reason for relocating after a lifetime in the city, the NY Post reports.

“I don’t want to pay taxes and live in a city with a blatantly antisemitic mayor and his antisemitic wife, period,” Kushner told The Post. “I also don’t want to live in the city with the people who voted for him.”

Kushner said his decision had little to do with Mamdani’s socialist agenda and far more to do with what he views as the mayor’s longstanding hostility toward Israel and the Jewish community. He pointed to Mamdani’s refusal to participate in the Israel Day Parade, his calls to arrest Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu as a war criminal, his outreach to anti-Israel demonstrators at Columbia University, and what Kushner described as Duwaji’s apparent celebration of the October 7 Hamas massacre.

“I don’t think you can reason with people that celebrate brutality on October 7th and say it was a hoax,” said Kushner, who is currently serving as US Ambassador to France and living in Paris for the time being. “I don’t think they are people worth talking to. I speak to a lot of people that don’t have political views that I have, and there’s two sides, and I respect everybody’s opinion, but I don’t respect anybody that celebrates murder, rape, brutality.”

Kushner also criticized what he described as Mamdani’s broader hostility toward successful business leaders, arguing that the mayor’s political rise reflects growing resentment toward people who have earned wealth through entrepreneurship and investment.

He specifically referenced a viral campaign video in which Mamdani promoted his proposed pied-à-terre tax by singling out billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin as someone who owns valuable New York real estate without living in the city full time.

“You know, Ken Griffin worked hard to earn all that money,” Kushner said. “He took a lot of risk to earn all that money. That’s what America’s about.”

Although Kushner intends to establish Florida residency, he said he is not severing all ties with New York. He plans to keep his Manhattan apartment—even if it means paying the proposed pied-à-terre tax—but worries that Mamdani’s leadership could inflict lasting damage on the city he has long called home.

“I think there’s a lot of people like me that love New York City,” he said, adding that he hopes the city is “so robust and such an energetic and strong city that hopefully one person can’t ruin it.

“Bill de Blasio couldn’t ruin it, because the city is such an economic center, and really a cultural center, and it’s the center of the world,” he said. “But if I was a betting person, if one person could ruin it or bring it down, it’s this mayor.”

Kushner has spent decades building Kushner Companies into one of the country’s most prominent family-owned real estate firms. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to tax evasion, witness tampering, and making illegal campaign contributions before later receiving a presidential pardon from President Trump. His eldest son, Jared Kushner, served as a senior White House adviser and is President Trump’s son-in-law, while his younger son, Joshua Kushner, founded the investment firm Thrive Capital.

Kushner argued that New York should remain a place where ambition and hard work are rewarded rather than one where successful individuals are vilified. He said supporters of the new mayor should focus on taking advantage of the city’s opportunities instead of attacking those who have prospered.

“The opportunity is there for all Americans,” he said, adding. “I hope they find happiness with this moronic mayor.”

For his part, Kushner said he has no regrets about the move and is looking forward to beginning the next chapter of his life in Florida.

“I’m going to have a very nice life as a resident of Florida, with a lot of family and a lot of friends that are doing exactly that, have done, and continue to do exactly the same thing,” he said.