Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a dubious figure supporting high-profile Democratic candidates this fall.
A radical socialist jeweler—who once dressed Michelle Obama and markets his jewelry with macabre dramatizations of a female serial killer—is set to host a big-dollar fundraiser for James Talarico and Sherrod Brown in New York City on Monday.
The Texas and Ohio Democratic Senate hopefuls will appear with Dirty Grandpa star Robert De Niro and Showgirls star Gina Gershon at the soirée, which is scheduled at an undisclosed location in downtown Manhattan. Top tickets will go for $27,000 a pop.
Listed first among the host committee is Alexis Bittar, a self-described “drug addict dropout” who has made no secret of his far-left activism and contempt for the United States and its flag—a worldview less popular among Brown’s and Talarico’s red state voters than in far-left downtown Manhattan.
“Hey people … it’s voting time!!! Bringing in all the Democrat Socialists!! Let’s change America,” he said in a June Instagram post on behalf of Brooklyn socialist Claire Valdez, who defeated a Democratic establishment candidate in a House primary this summer.
In an August Instagram spot with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, Bittar declared that “the traditional Democrats have one foot in the grave!! The revolution has begun!”
Bittar, who cohosted a fundraiser for El-Sayed earlier this year, is also a close ally of New York City’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani and was a top financial bundler for him during the campaign, Gothamist reported. Like Mamdani and El-Sayed, he despises Israel and appears to have a problem with Jews. In one of several Instagram posts featuring a photo of him with El-Sayed, Bittar attacked familiar left-wing targets: Zionists, AIPAC, and Jews who supposedly control the media. El-Sayed may lose only because “the Zi*nist machine, and main media like Ellison (now owns CNN, CBS etc,) and AIPAC’s hold over this country and politicians do not want any Progressive Dems to win because of their stance on the middle east.”
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