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Meet Zohran Mamdani’s newly named chief of staff — the secretive DSA operative who helped craft his lefty platform
NY Post ^ | Nov 11, 2025 | Carl Campanile, Hannah Fierick, Matthew Fischetti and Matt Troutman

Posted on 01/03/2026 8:11:29 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

She’s the power behind the red curtain.

Zohran Mamdani’s secretive, newly named chief of staff, Elle Bisgaard-Church, is a Democratic Socialists of America true believer who convinced the far-left group to back him for mayor and helped craft his “Department of Community Safety,” insiders said.

The two 34-year-olds forged similar paths to the heights of New York City political power — cutting their teeth in antiwar and pro-Palestinian college campus activism and toiling in lefty nonprofits before making the leap into state government.

“Few have played a more central role in this movement, or in every victory we have achieved together in the Assembly, than Elle,” Mamdani gushed — as he announced her elevation to City Hall chief of staff.

An Ivy League grad from California, Bisgaard-Church’s path intertwined with Mamdani’s when she became chief of staff for his state Assembly office upon his election in 2020.

She then jumped in with both feet as he launched his bid for mayor, serving as campaign manager — and getting widely credited for his stunning Democratic primary win — and then as senior adviser.

But Bisgaard-Church fiercely guards her privacy, eschewing social media and rarely granting interviews as the socialist Queens Assemblyman-turned-Mayor-elect Mamdani revels in the spotlight.

Her wedding over the summer wasn’t covered in the New York Times or acknowledged on Politico’s Playbook, unlike the nuptials of other high-profile government operatives, and she’s also never appeared on a “City & State Power List,” according to the outlet.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 2020; 5yearplan; antisemitism; bisgaardchurch; dsa; ellebisgaardchurch; gwot; hamas; maduro; mamdani; nyc; palestine; proletariatunite; socialism; terrorism; zohranmamdani; zoltarspeaks; zoltarwisdom
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Church shares her thoughts on President Trump following her and Mamdani’s WH meeting:

https://youtu.be/QUaMvMraM3U

1 posted on 01/03/2026 8:11:29 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If above link doesn’t work, try:

https://youtu.be/QUaMvMraM3U?si=sKe-QADkRssraYsb


2 posted on 01/03/2026 8:14:50 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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3 posted on 01/03/2026 8:17:23 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
There is your originator of the end of individualism and the collective warmth of socialism, thinking.

Except for the leadership. They hold onto exclusive rights to their individualism. Their collective warmth comes from your lowered standards.

4 posted on 01/03/2026 8:17:57 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

She looks quite smart, and is also wise to avoid the public spotlight for herself.

On the other hand, one wonders what harebrained marxist schemes she will be promoting.


5 posted on 01/03/2026 8:24:51 AM PST by PGR88
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

AWFLs, AWFLS, everywhere.

6 posted on 01/03/2026 8:26:38 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

The 19th Ammendment strikes again!


7 posted on 01/03/2026 8:29:35 AM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: blackdog

Spot On.

The graft and ‘benefits’ she will enjoy will be impressive, indeed.


8 posted on 01/03/2026 8:30:59 AM PST by drwoof
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To: PGR88

The document, AWWG Palestine Policy Meeting Agenda & Notes (November 2, 2025), reads as a blueprint for how DSA expects Mamdani to govern. It urges his administration to divest city pension funds from Israeli bonds, pull city deposits from banks doing business with Israel, and cancel municipal contracts with Israeli-linked companies. It calls for banning Israeli products from city-run grocery stores, revoking nonprofit status from charities that support the Israel Defense Forces, evicting weapons manufacturers from the metro area, dismantling the NYC–Israel Economic Council established under NYC Mayor Eric Adams, and severing all NYPD cooperation with the Israeli military. The plan even proposes arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF officials for alleged war crimes...


9 posted on 01/03/2026 8:33:29 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I hope things get so bad in NYC that the media cannot hide it.


10 posted on 01/03/2026 8:34:13 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“But Bisgaard-Church fiercely guards her privacy, eschewing social media and rarely granting interviews as the socialist Queens Assemblyman-turned-Mayor-elect Mamdani revels in the spotlight.”

I wonder how much training trips she has had outside the country?


11 posted on 01/03/2026 8:36:01 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: simpson96

What does all their crap have to do with running NYC ? LOL


12 posted on 01/03/2026 8:40:00 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

A karen who could only advance in life in a blue city sheeet hole.


13 posted on 01/03/2026 9:00:07 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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A fact-finding mission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) said in September that they found high-level authorities in Venezuela responsible for atrocities that they believed amounted to crimes against humanity.

Former President Donald Trump recognized Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido and invited him as a guest to the 2020 State of the Union.

President Joe Biden designated more than 300,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S. illegally for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in March.

Founded in 1982, the DSA is America’s largest socialist political organization that boasts a membership of nearly 100,000, as well as close to 200 chapters nationwide.

Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri were all elected to Congress as members of the DSA.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com


14 posted on 01/03/2026 9:02:57 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Members of the DSA ha e been visiting Maduro in Venezuela.


15 posted on 01/03/2026 9:04:31 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

https://www.cityandstateny.com/personality/2025/10/how-elle-bisgaard-church-became-zohran-mamdanis-most-trusted-adviser/408769/

Woe.

Is she his aide...or his handler...?


16 posted on 01/03/2026 9:05:38 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: mewzilla

Wow is what I meant to post.

But woe works, too.

God help Gotham.


17 posted on 01/03/2026 9:08:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

She is Major General Vasily Blokhin.
Mamdani is Stalin.

NYC is now destroyed. There is no recovery from conversion to extreme Islamism. There is no recovery from extreme communism.

Now they will consolidate power, take all the money, and brutalize, destroy and eliminate all adversaries.


18 posted on 01/03/2026 9:18:06 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: mewzilla

Is she his aide...or his handler...?

Remember Mamdani has Zero qualifications for the job


19 posted on 01/03/2026 9:49:28 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Ulrike Meinhof reincarnated

Even has the painted fingernails


20 posted on 01/03/2026 9:50:01 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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