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
About this source
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.
Before the quotation
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.
How this statement is classified
Opposition has an explicit condition, not an unconditional permanent exclusion.
- Recorded on
- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Zohran Mamdani
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