Right-wing activist and self-styled “independent journalist” Christopher Rufo lauded his “friends at the New York Times” this week after it was reported that the Gray Lady rushed to publish a controversial story about how Zohran Mamdani filled out his college application because it didn’t want to get “scooped” by Rufo.
Just before the July 4th weekend, the Times sparked outcry when the paper dropped a piece about the New York City mayoral candidate having identified himself on a 2009 application to Columbia University as both “Asian” and “Black or African American.” Mamdani is of Indian descent and was born in Uganda.
