Audrey Fahlberg

Self-defense is not a crime.

Self-defense is not a crime.

So this is a guy who's from Princeton, New Jersey.

He's a plastic surgeon.

He's an Army veteran.

He was a trauma doctor overseas.

He's credited with saving Tammy Duckworth's life.

She's, of course, the senator who went down in a Blackhawk accident and is now in a wheelchair.

So that has allowed congressional Democrats to kind of gloss over his pretty controversial past, which is controversial for a number of reasons.

So

The biggest thing is over 30 years ago, he served as a defense witness in the trial of the blind sheikh who died in prison after being convicted on some pretty crazy terrorism charges related to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

He was

credited with inspiring his followers to carry that out and also soliciting the assassination of the Egyptian president.

But this guy, after serving as a defense witness in that trial, Democrats are still not really condemning it.

You know, I spent all day on Capitol Hill yesterday trying to get Democrats to say something, acknowledging this is concerning, and only one, Jared Moskowitz from Florida, really had anything to say about it.

He met him in 1991 in his 20s.

So, of course, Hamaway is from New Jersey.

That's where the blind sheikh had a mosque there.

He met him during a trip to a middle school.

After that, he had a pretty interesting association with the blind sheikh.