Zul Mohammed from Pakistan, running for Mayor of Carrollton, TX says:
“No vet has made any sacrifice. I want to make that clear. I do not support the US military. No, I do not support the United States. I look down on both entities”
pic.twitter.com/Hc5vAUNtnb— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) June 8, 2026
When I first saw the comments attributed to Zul Mohamed, a candidate for mayor in Texas, I had to read them twice. Any politician is free to criticize government policy. That is part of a free society. But when someone seeking public office reportedly declares, “No vet has made any sacrifice,” and goes on to say, “I do not support the US military” and “I do not support the United States,” that crosses into something entirely different. If those statements accurately reflect his views, then voters deserve to know exactly who is asking for their support.
Pakistan-born Mohamed has long-running legal troubles surrounding election fraud allegations and convictions tied to his earlier mayoral campaign. Texas authorities arrested him in 2020 on more than one hundred felony counts connected to a mail-ballot scheme. Prosecutors alleged that ballot applications were forged and directed to a mailbox obtained under a false identity. Years later, he pleaded guilty to numerous felony counts and was sentenced by a jury. Despite that history, his name returned to the ballot once again.
The issue here is larger than one candidate. Confidence in government is collapsing across the Western world because people increasingly feel that public office is attracting individuals who openly disdain the very institutions they seek to control. Citizens can disagree over taxes, foreign policy, immigration, or military intervention. Those debates are healthy. Yet there remains a basic expectation that elected officials should possess at least some degree of respect for the nation they hope to govern.
Veterans do not all share the same political views. Many criticize Washington as fiercely as anyone else. To claim that no veteran has made a sacrifice is an insult to those who returned home wounded, those who spent years separated from their families, and those who never came home at all. Whether one supported a particular war is irrelevant. The personal sacrifices made by service members are undeniable. There could be no United States without our troops.
This is not the first instance of a US politician openly hating the country they claim to represent. The Squad thinks it is progressive to be anti-America. Rashida Tlaib has repeatedly uses rhetoric describing America as an evil empire. Ilhan Omar stated that the United States was being turned into “one of the worst countries” in the world and openly supports her birth nation over America. New York’s Mamdani calls America a colonial imperialist nation and condemns capitalism.
An entire generation of politicians has been educated to view Western civilization as little more than a pile of sins. They can recite every historical failure but rarely acknowledge the freedoms, innovations, and opportunities that attracted millions of immigrants over centuries. It is extremely problematic that people who view the US with disdain are eager to enter politics. Who are they representing if not the American people? Where are their loyalties?
What is alarming is how a growing faction of the far left has stopped talking about fixing America and started talking as if America itself is the problem. They attack the country’s history, its institutions, its traditions, its military, and even the idea of patriotism itself. Every nation has flaws, but a political movement that teaches people to be ashamed of their country instead of fighting to improve it only breeds division and resentment. When politicians spend more time condemning America than defending it, voters have every right to question whose interests they truly represent.
This is a question for voters. If a candidate openly says he does not support the United States and looks down upon its military, then citizens must decide whether that is the type of leadership they want representing their community. Democracy only functions when voters pay attention. The greatest threat to any republic is indifference.