August Pfluger

Role
Republican U.S. representative for Texas's 11th District and Republican Study Committee chair
Statement date

August Pfluger on Should Zohran Mamdani attend New York City’s 9/11 memorial?

actually call out terror groups around the world

Source and context

Interview

Fox interviews Lawler and Pfluger about Mamdani's memorial attendance (opens in a new tab)Lawler's opening interview paragraph and Pfluger's conditional-attendance paragraph; accompanying video 6404877763112

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Fox's original Dallas convention interviews. Quotations are verified against its written interview text, not an independently timecoded video transcript. Publication timestamp is metadata-verified; interview time is unspecified.

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Interviewed at the Dallas GOP convention. September 10 is a report-date proxy, not a verified utterance timestamp.

After the quotation

Fox distinguishes Hamas from al-Qaeda's responsibility for September 11. His condition does not establish that Mamdani never condemned terrorism.

Mixed or conditional
How this statement is classified

Opposition has an explicit condition, not an unconditional permanent exclusion.

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People and groups discussed
Zohran Mamdani

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