Claims extracted
23
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
4%
1 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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Publisher signals
94/100
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Politics
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New Jersey Democrat Adam Hamawy, the longtime associate of the notorious "Blind Sheikh" terrorist mastermind who will soon represent the state's 12th Congressional District, refused to call Iran a U.S. adversary, saying, "We pushed them into a fight."
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We → represent → fight
During a Tuesday appearance on CNN's The Situation Room, host Pamela Brown asked Hamawy if he "see[s] Iran as the adversary."
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he → ask → adversary
"I see—we pushed them into a fight, and so I think we both have to step back and say, 'Is this helping either one of us?'" Hamawy said.
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Hamawy → see → us
"But are they the adversary?" Brown asked.
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Brown → ask → ?
"We're making adversaries when we should be making friends," said Hamawy.
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Hamawy → make → friends
"They've been saying 'death to America' for decades," Brown responded.
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Brown → say → decades
"We've been saying 'death to Iran' for decades, as well," Hamawy said.
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Hamawy → say → decades
When Brown noted that Iran has "killed a lot of Americans," Hamawy responded, "We've killed a lot of them, as well."
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We → note → them
He went on to argue that the United States should use its "economic" power "to create friends in the region."
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States → go → region
Iran has killed and kidnapped more than 1,000 Americans since 1979.
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Iran → kill → 1979
Hamawy's remarks reflect the radical nature of the freshman class of House Democrats.
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remarks → reflect → Democrats
Hamawy, a Princeton, N.J., plastic surgeon who once worked in a hospital Hamas operated out of in Gaza, won his deep-blue district by nearly 50 points last week after defeating nine other Democrats in his tighter June primary race.
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Hamas → work → race
Hamawy faced scrutiny for his close ties to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman, better-known as the Blind Sheikh.
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Hamawy → face → Sheikh
Hamawy served as a defense witness at the 1995 trial that saw the Islamic cleric put away for life and acknowledged that he heard Abdel-Rahman speak of "conquering the land of the infidels" and of "jihad."
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Rahman → serve → jihad
Hamawy argued during his primary campaign that Abdel-Rahman was actually a "community leader."
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Rahman → argue → campaign
"He was a leader of the community that talks about how to pray, how to wash, how to practice as a normal Muslim," Hamawy said in May.
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Hamawy → talk → May
"He wasn't preaching death and destruction all the time," Hamawy said.
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Hamawy → preach → death
The mosque Abdel-Rahman preached at, described as a "jihad office" in court records, was where the bombing conspirators met.
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conspirators → preach → records
Hamawy said the Blind Sheikh "always" talked about jihad, but refused to condemn his longtime mentor.
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Sheikh → say → mentor
Joining Hamawy in the House are a crop of far-left Democrats, many of whom are associated with the Democratic Socialists of America.
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many → join → America
They include Colorado's Melat Kiros, who said the Sept. 11 terrorist attack was the "inevitable" result of America's colonial aggression; Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Columbia University graduate student who helped found the far-left campus group behind disruptive anti-Israel protests; and Pennsylvania's Chris Rabb, who praised a notorious cop-killer and called for the mass execution of corporate CEOs.
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who → include → CEOs
Hamawy is not the only newly elected Democrat to downplay Iranian terrorism.
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Hamawy → elect → terrorism
Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed drew an equivalency between Iran and Israel during an October debate, saying: "I think both of them have proven dangerous in their own way."
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both → draw → way
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