A Texas politician who pleaded guilty to 106 felony counts of mail-ballot fraud is drawing renewed fury after a video circulating on social media appeared to show him declaring that no American veteran "has made any sacrifice" and that he looks down on both the U.S. military and the United States itself.
Zul Mohamed, a Pakistani-American who ran for mayor of Carrollton, Texas, was filmed at a Frisco, Texas event billed as a "Rally Against Rednecks," where he was reportedly arguing with attendees at a competing rally. The Daily Caller reported that the video spread rapidly on X, igniting a wave of criticism from conservative commentators and veterans' advocates.
The remarks are jarring enough on their own. They land harder when you know who is saying them, and what he has already been convicted of doing to the democratic process in his adopted state.
In the clip shared by the X account Defiant L's on June 8, 2026, Mohamed is quoted saying:
"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."
The full context before and after those remarks has not been established. The Daily Caller reached out to Mohamed's team for comment. No response was reported.
Brigitte Gabriel, conservative author and founder of ACT for America, posted her own response on X the same day:
"Zul Mohamed, a Pakistani national who hates America, hates our veterans, and has 100+ felony convictions for election fraud is still legally on the ballot in Texas and running for mayor. The enemy is already inside the gates."
Gabriel's post overstated the record slightly, Mohamed pleaded guilty to 106 felony counts, not 100-plus felony "convictions" in the colloquial sense of separate trials. But the underlying facts are damning enough without rounding.
Mohamed's legal troubles trace back to his failed 2020 Carrollton mayoral campaign. In October of that year, he was found with a box of "fraudulently obtained mail ballots," Texas Scorecard reported. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office issued a press release disclosing Mohamed's arrest on 84 counts of mail-ballot application fraud and 25 counts of unlawful possession of an official mail ballot.
State investigators alleged Mohamed used a false identity to obtain a virtual mailbox and directed fraudulently requested mail ballots to that location. The scheme was not subtle. It was industrial-scale ballot manipulation tied directly to a candidate's own campaign.
Mohamed spent the next four years seeking delays in his case. He eventually pleaded guilty in 2024 to 106 felony counts stemming from the fraud scheme, according to documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation. A Texas jury sentenced him to ten years of probation, more than 180 hours of community service, and four years in prison, The Dallas Express reported.
What happened next defies common sense. Mohamed was able to run for mayor of Carrollton again in 2026 while appealing portions of his case, The Dallas Express reported. A man sentenced to prison for defrauding the very electoral system he sought to benefit from put his name back on a ballot, in the same city.
He lost. Steve Babick defeated Mohamed in the 2026 race, Ballotpedia's election results showed. Voters, at least, had the final word.
But the fact that Mohamed could legally appear on the ballot at all while his fraud conviction was under appeal raises questions that Texas lawmakers should be forced to answer. What good is a 106-count guilty plea if the convicted party can simply appeal and run again before the ink dries on the sentence?
The voter fraud case was not the end of Mohamed's legal entanglements. In 2025, authorities charged him with sending fake jury summons postcards to residents shortly before a court proceeding in his voter-fraud case, WFAA reported. The disposition of that charge remains unclear from available reporting.
Consider the pattern: a mail-ballot fraud scheme using a false identity, four years of legal delay, a guilty plea to 106 felonies, a prison sentence, an appeal that allowed him back on the ballot, a separate charge involving fake jury summons, and now a public declaration that he does not support the United States or its military and looks down on both.
Mohamed lost his race. He is not, as of now, holding public office. Some might argue the system worked, voters rejected him. That is true as far as it goes.
It does not go far enough. The question is not whether Mohamed won. The question is how a man who pleaded guilty to more than a hundred felony counts of election fraud was permitted to stand for election again in the same jurisdiction he tried to defraud. The question is why the appeals process creates a loophole wide enough to drive a mayoral campaign through.
Election integrity is not a partisan talking point. It is the mechanical prerequisite for self-government. When a convicted ballot fraudster can delay, appeal, and re-enter the arena, and then use that platform to tell veterans their sacrifices mean nothing, something in the system is broken.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office did the hard work of investigating and prosecuting the original fraud. A jury handed down a real sentence. But the downstream enforcement, keeping a convicted election felon off the ballot during appeal, fell short.
Mohamed's comments about veterans and the military did not emerge in a vacuum. They came at a protest event in Frisco where tensions were already running high between competing rallies. That context does not soften the words. If anything, it suggests Mohamed was not caught in an unguarded moment but was making a deliberate public statement.
"No vet has made any sacrifice." That is not a policy disagreement. It is not a critique of a specific military operation or a nuanced argument about foreign policy. It is a blanket dismissal of every man and woman who has served, including those who came home broken, and those who did not come home at all.
Paired with "I do not support the United States" and "I look down on both entities," the remarks paint a picture of someone who holds the country and its defenders in open contempt while simultaneously seeking to hold public office within that country's democratic system. A system he has already been convicted of corrupting.
Several facts remain unclear. The exact date of the Frisco rally has not been established. The vote totals in the 2026 Carrollton mayoral race have not been widely reported. The specific portions of Mohamed's case under appeal are not detailed in available reporting. And the status of the 2025 fake-jury-summons charge remains unresolved.
Mohamed's team has not publicly responded to the video or the surrounding criticism.
These gaps matter. If Mohamed has a defense or claims the video was edited or taken out of context, he has every right to make that case. So far, silence.
Carrollton voters did their job. They rejected Mohamed at the ballot box. But they should never have been put in the position of having to vote against a convicted election fraudster who was legally permitted to run while appealing a 106-count guilty plea.
Texas has some of the toughest election-integrity enforcement in the country, thanks in large part to Paxton's office. But enforcement that ends at sentencing and then watches a convicted felon file candidacy papers is enforcement with a hole in it.
Mohamed's anti-military remarks will generate outrage for a news cycle or two. The deeper problem, that the legal system allowed a convicted ballot fraudster back onto a ballot, will outlast the outrage unless legislators close the gap.
A man who defrauded the ballot box, delayed justice for four years, and then publicly declared he looks down on the country whose freedoms let him do all of it is not a figure who deserves sympathy. He is a case study in what happens when accountability has a loophole.
