What do a plastic surgeon with links to Al Qaeda, an oyster fisherman with a Nazi tattoo, a former bandmate of a child sex offender, and a Lutheran minister who took part in a satanic wedding have in common? They’re all Democrat candidates for Congress in this November’s midterm elections.
Undoubtedly the most notorious Democrat this cycle is Graham Platner, the first-time candidate in Maine’s U.S. Senate race who defeated establishment favorite Janet Mills and is set to take on incumbent Republican Susan Collins this November. Platner first made headlines after it was revealed that he had a chest tattoo of a “Totenkopf” skull and crossbones – an emblem utilized by Nazi SS death squads. Shockingly, that scandal is mild compared to what has transpired since.
Along with sending sexual text messages to multiple women while married to his current wife, Platner also mocked a Purple Heart recipient; called Army soldiers “fat, lazy trash”; referred to himself as a “communist”; said that rural Americans are stupid and racist; complained about a “Thai prostitute loophole” closing; blamed women victims of sexual assault; and until very recently allegedly had an active profile on Kik (a popular messaging app used to coordinate sexual encounters) featuring a shirtless picture of himself.
Then, just last week, several of Platner’s former girlfriends came forward with disturbing details alleging that Platner “hated women” and would often become aggressive and violent. One of the women confirmed that Platner did indeed know that his tattoo was a Nazi symbol – contrary to what his campaign has claimed. Another woman claimed that Platner repeatedly stated that if anyone ever broke into his home, he would “rape them.”
In a sign of just how morally bankrupt Democrats have become, Platner’s supporters – including leading progressive Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who have long claimed to be champions for women’s rights and safety – have continued to stand by him.
One Democrat who secretly may be thankful for Platner’s woes is Adam Hamawy, who recently won a Democrat primary in a deep blue U.S. House district in New Jersey – meaning that he will almost certainly be in Congress come January 2027.
Hamawy, who was born in Egypt, has the endorsement of “the Squad” and is vehemently anti-Israel, is a plastic surgeon and a retired U.S. Army doctor. But his most notable association is with Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as “the Blind Sheikh” – who was convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured over a thousand others.
In 1995, when Hamawy was 26, he appeared as a defense witness at the Sheikh’s terrorism trial. Hamawy testified that he frequently visited Abdel-Rahman at his home and accompanied him on at least one long drive. Hamawy also admitted that Abdel-Rahman spoke openly about jihad and that destroying “the enemies of Islam” was a regular theme of the Sheikh’s sermons.
But that’s not all. As The Free Press reports:
Beyond the trial testimony, Hamawy has also faced questions about other associations. He volunteered in the 1990s with a medical organization in Bosnia that was later revealed by the 9/11 Commission to have ties to al-Qaeda. And in 2024, he spent a month volunteering in what he insisted was a “completely benign civilian hospital with no tunnels underneath it” before Israeli forces subsequently identified the facility as concealing a tunnel leading to Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar.
At least one Jewish Democrat – Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz – has expressed “concern” about Hamawy’s past, but the broader Democrat establishment continues to support him. Retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, whose seat Hamawy is expected to win, cited a need to “push back on any unnecessary negativity” in the race. Apparently, being a literal terrorist sympathizer is no longer disqualifying in the modern Democrat Party. To the contrary, it earns you the endorsement of some of the party’s most high-profile leaders and helps you win contested primaries.
Hamawy isn’t the only Democrat running this cycle who has displayed alarming sympathy for radical Islam and has excused terrorist acts. Pennsylvania state rep. Chris Rabb, the Democrat nominee for Pennsylvania’s 3rd District, shared a post blaming a mass shooting at a Hanukkah festival in Australia that left 16 dead on “Zionists.” In Michigan, the leading Democrat candidate for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat, Abdul El-Sayed, is on video stressing the importance of having empathy for terrorists and expressing sadness at the death of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Then there’s Bobby Pulido, a South Texas Democrat congressional candidate who performed with a bandmate who was convicted of indecent contact with an eight-year-old girl. Pulido claims that he had no knowledge that the bandmate was a child sex offender, but he continued to play with him after his 2014 conviction.
Meanwhile, up in Iowa, Democrat House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott is running to take on GOP Rep. Zach Nunn in a toss-up district. As Fox News reported, Trone, who is a state senator and Lutheran minister, “participated in the wedding of a satanist couple in 2006 while serving as an intern pastor in a West Virginia parish.”
Taken together, these candidates are not simply embarrassing outliers. They are a flashing warning light about the moral rot at the heart of the modern Democrat Party. A party that claims to stand against extremism now excuses, enables, and even elevates the most shockingly radical and extreme candidates to ever get this close to positions of power. Voters should keep this in mind as they cast their ballots this fall.
Shane Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
The average Democrat will always vote Democrat because that’s what their daddy and mommy always did. They simply vote “party” and have little interest in realism or the future of our nation. They have no understanding about the fact that the party they view as Democrat no longer exists. It’s been taken over by the progressive/socialist and their anti-American buddies who are simply running things while hiding under the Democrat banner.
Again, it will up to the voters as they cast their ballots in the upcoming midterm elections as to which direction this nation will take. Already it is known that the “blue” states will stuff their ballot boxes and cheat as they have very little integrity with all of their corruption. The average citizen had better wakeup and face reality.
Radical Islam is not a religion. It’s a satanic cult.
The Democrat party is truly the party of Satan. Vote wisely. Your very salvation depends on it.
The Democrats will turn the USA into Sodom And Gomorrah two cities in the Bible. The people were so Evil and Perverted that God sent Angels to destroy them.
It’s becoming increasingly apparent to me that democrats will support anybody with a pulse if they think the person will help them regain control of Congress no matter what they will do to the country.
The demoncrat party has literally no redeeming value to our country or humanity. They have ALWAYS been evil since their inception in the late 1820’s. Every single govt caused problem has been caused by them. Republicans aren’t the total answer, God is, but they can’t be anymore antithetical to our country than the devil himself.
Can the Democratic party get anymore evil? Whether they know it, own up to it or whatever, they are all Satan’s pawns, especially those who vote for them. SATAN HAS RESERVED SPECIAL PIG’S STIES FOR THEM IN THE LAKE OF FIRE!!
Years ago, when the radial islamists were unable to take down the United States, they said that if they couldn’t take us down from the outside, they would take us down from the inside. As we can see from electio the squad and their lack of loyalty to this country alone and now these candidates, they are making good on their threat.
See CA state & model for Nation etc Scary & add MN MI fraud
The Democratic Party has become an oxymoron.
The sad part is, we can’s trust Republicans to do the right thing, but we can trust Democrats to do the wrong thing. Godspeed, America and your People.
This is all a product of our stellar education system.
Some how all this doesn’t surprise me. After listening to the rantings of the likes of shumer, shiff, warren, and some of the other idiots leading their party, it all fits right in with their narratives. The democrats really are at the heart of the rot infecting our country.
Please stop using the word Socialists. They are blatant Communists/Fascists but no one is brave enough to call them on that.
You just can’t make this stuff up. I do wish it was all a fabrication, but unfortunately, it is true and sickening. I would say thank you for this article but I am sick to my stomach right now after reading this.
Once again, proof positive Dumba$$ocrat$ are hypocritical. Loud. Wrong. Loud. Two-faced. Loud. A big part of what is wrong with ‘Murica today.
Did I mention loud?
Will these voters take that in consideration.? Of course not. They have made President Trump Hitler and MAGA domestic terrorists. They have undermined law and order. Made women unimportant. Men can have babies and should play in women’s sport. Illegals should be supported by the citizens and allowed to do crimes at will. Immigrants who walked into this country without papers or visa’s should be allowed housing an education and healthcare. The citizens should not. This is the progressives and the communist that have brainwashed the Sanders, Warren’s and Schumer’s of the party. Obama started all this by weakening the military, the FBI, The police and most of all those of the other party. Autopen Biden went so far as saying we were the greatest danger to America. While they destroyed our Constitution, our economy, our children, our seniors. The children with Trans surgeries and meds the seniors with Covid and Covid vaccine. Paid billions of dollars to Iran to destroy Israel and the USA, which they are still doing. 9 billion to Somalia. Fraudulent elections. I cannot believe Platner got that many votes. I feel sorry for the people in Maine it then again they got what they voted for. Just hope this evil nazi sex fiend doesn’t get into the senate. But he will, why? Because the oligarchies will see to it. Money is the root of all evil.
I will not mince words: The Democrats are now scum, the stench from their sewers is pervading our nation. I pray that the party dies a tremendous death soon because they are now NOT Socialists. That is merely a euphemism for Communism which Warren, Sanders, the Squad and their ilk and the Democrat supporters are blatantly admitting now, representing the worst of the worst of humanity — their own image when they look in the mirror.
This is absolutely unbelievable and totally unacceptable.
The law should be persons only qualified for any political office must be a natural born USA citizen, peroid!
The democrats truly have become the Idiot Village People with their “diverse” line up, and they bank on the products their village raised to vote for them.
How do you drain the swamp when new and more viral creatures pop up and the people seem to ignore how slimy these creatures are and vote for them anyway?
What is going on in our country? Where are the the common sense people hiding?
Is this the best that can run for a congressional seat?
Please dear God, we truly are lost in this wilderness and we desparately need Your guidance and help to us defeat these people!
We can’t seem to do it on our own!
Wow, that photo of him. He just looks DIRTY!
Please do not use the term “Lutheran Pastor” without specifying if he is an Evangelical Lutheran or an LCMS Lutheran Pastor – there is a DEFINITE difference! I dare say the pastor you referenced here was Evangelical Lutheran – they do not follow the truth of Martin Luther! He would roll over in his grave!
They warned us that they would destroy us from within. How many voters in these districts where these infiltrators are running know about their background or even care.
Lord help us and protect us from all harm.
This is satan working
Satan will rule for a while yet but be prepared when God has had enoughj no one will will see it coming until it to late.
Abolish the ‘democrat party’ as un-American. Their members no longer support our Constitution. Period.
Just like the Democrats to back a candidate who is, and has done, everything they falsely accused President Trump of doing. I just hope their Neo-Nazi doesn’t turn out to be their Hitler.
This title of this article describes the Democratic Party and their allies! It is time the true American people stop the enemies of our country! We must destroy all enemies foreign and domestic!
Obviously Democrats don’t actually depend on votes to “win” elections. The party, itself, is the enemy of USA and all it stands for.
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New England is a bastion of anti-American communists, socialists, jihadists and RINO’s. Lead by pinko Bernie Sanders and RINO Nancy Collins. The electorates of Main, Vermont and New Hampshire are either idiots or need to leave the U.S.A. and go to live in the nation that supports America’s enemies.
Perhaps the Dem/Commies will refrain from calling Trump a Nazi since they now are supporting a Nazi for Senate!! There is no longer a “Democrat” party. They are either hard-line Socialists or Communists. I never thought this rape of our Constitution would happen in my life-time. It seems I was wrong. This party has brought in the dregs of society to try to take over our country. Pray for us!!
Who allowed people to run for office that aren’t born American citizens by born American citizens to run for any office in this country? No use saying anything more. We have no honesty or integrity left in this country
And now you know why the Good Lord said I will make you fishers of men then later cast your net from the right side and you shall find. The left from mid point to far are all evil and against God there is no middle ground to meet with these people. If you will not see it their way they want you dead.
What I would like to know, is if there is even ONE person on this particular thread, who agrees, follows, campaigns or votes for this guy, as a recent “poll” (to indicate just how seriously I take the polls in the first place) indicated that 72% of the vote for this clown came from so-called “Republicans” (to ALSO indicate how seriously I take the people who claim they are Republican in Maine (with the exception of my aunt and uncle, who are actual conservatives).
Along with HENRY FORD, the deep state scum in the District of Criminals are directly responsible for these anti-America muslims entering our country!
Henry Ford hated Jews so much, He imported 20K muslims to work his factory.
As far as I am concerned, all these people are perfect Democrats, along with that woman in Texas who wanted to imprison “Zionists” and castrate them. Of course, I am a Republican.
The democrats can’t win unless the Republicans lose! So, let’s get busy and win! We have long heard that for evil to triumph, it only takes good men to do nothing! Let’s not do nothing! The devil is defeated! But, he still tells lies, in fact that is his only language, though he mixes in some truth to make it more palatable.
Thank you, once again, Mr. Shane Harris. The first paragraph really said it all. The people I feel the most sympathy for, are the older democrats, who only get their news from the corporate media, they have no idea the characters they are voting for. Moreover, you cannot change their minds, its like cement, “all mixed up, and permanently set”. And believe me, I have family members with this condition.
Those of us who read and get our information from reliable news sources, like AMAC, need to be sure to VOTE. It has never been more imperative.
These candidates pasts/present ideologies, actions, support of anti-Israel and anti-Islam followers should be broadcast far and wide in their states/districts before November. There may even be Democrats who would oppose such candidates to represent them in Congress.
Sarah Trone Garriott is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America which is a very progressive Lutheran Church. There are many more Lutherans that are members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod that do not agree with the views of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. I just wanted to post this so people would not think that all Lutherans are in agreement with her beliefs. No member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod would condone marriage of a satanic couple.
A glaring look inside the Democrat Party at what they stand for today; everything that’s wrong, bad, Moralless and the face-of-death! Their hypocrisy is found in WWII and what Hitler stood for and tried to implement! Quite literally True! It’s simple to study, for yourself, the numerous parallels between Hitler and today’s Democrat Party! People need to get busy and get informed by your own effort and not allow what misinformation you’re being fed on a daily basis by your old Media standby, as Truth from a controlled, bias, leftist propaganda machine found through sources like: CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, BBC, NPR, etc… Seniors need to do themselves a tremendous Service and start researching exactly what and who these News Sources you’ve been lending ear to are doing and standing for! Don’t be deceived in these Last Days/End Times, for Satan is moving, seeking whom he may devour through lies and deception! It just might be Y O U !!!
Dems are all lemmings who will eagerly run off the cliff at their guru’s command. That’s why they are so dangerous, and why they get so much done; they stick together and back the parties’ policies no matter how idiotic they may be. Republicans can’t agree on things or have the backbone to fight over things. Dems should change their mascot from donkey to lemming-or a shared image.
The scary thing is these are considered by the Democrats as their cream of the crop!
I have been saying this for years all elections are rigged take an honest look at your candidates just for the last hundred years they don’t obey their oath they don’t care about the public or laws they lie kill cheat destroy no conscience think about that
I bet these elections will go on after Election Day, unless they can figure out how to cheat by using the machines again
They just won’t quit! My son says I don’t know what’s going on because I don’t watch TV news anymore, but I’ve learned to watch and listen to what’s going on in my own neighborhood, my church and the country, and know that everything God knew and preordained to happen, is happening now!
I’m not surprised that there are so many people who have fallen for the whiles of the devil, don’t even know it and are oblivious to what’s going on around them! As Scripture says in, Matthew 7:131413 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Period! “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it.”
We need to stop calling them, “Progressives.” They were NEVER , “Progressive!” Got any SUGGESTIONS for an appropriate Moniker for them?
You’ve described the entire party.