As sure as sunshine, Rep. Jerrold "Waddler" Nadler, who came out for the Iran nuke deal has come out against Trump's pick of pro-Israel ambassador David Friedman. There could hardly be a better endorsement than Nadler's opposition.
Remember Nadler didn't just back Iran's nukes, he has a history of disgusting comments and behavior.
He flirted with 9/11 Trutherism when he bellowed that, "If the White House had knowledge that there was a danger or an intent to hijack an American airplane and did not warn the airlines,” said Nadler in 2002, “that would be nonfeasance in office of the highest order. That would make the President bear a large amount of responsibility for the tragedy that occurred.”
During a Hillary campaign rally, Nadler ranted, "Nine-eleven was an act of war. The villains aren’t the terrorists. The villains live in the White House."
And there was this....
In the latter days of the Clinton presidency, the congressman disgraced himself by giving aid and comfort to two incarcerated domestic terrorists, Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg.
In 1981 Evans and Rosenberg, their anti-American radicalism undiminished, took part in the deadly Brinks armored-car robbery in Nyack, New York, where two security guards and two police officers were shot, three of them fatally. Three years later, the women were finally apprehended. At the time, they had 740 pounds of explosives (which they admitted were earmarked for bombings) in their possession. Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans to 40 years.
Clinton in fact decided to pardon not only Rosenberg (42 years before her sentence was due to end), but Evans as well (24 years early, in her case)—over the strong objections of Mary Jo White, the US attorney in New York.
“She [Rosenberg] was not a white-collar-crime person,” said Mary Crowley, whose brother, Sgt. Edward O’Grady, was gunned down in the botched Rockland County armored-truck robbery. “She was associated with a terrorist organization.”
O’Grady, fellow Police Officer Waverly Brown and Brink’s guard Peter Paige were killed during the Brink’s robbery, in which Weather Underground radicals tried to pull off a $1.6million heist.
Though the Brink’s robbery happened nearly 20 years ago, for those touched by the tragedy, it is still an open wound.
“The whole family is very disappointed,” said Crowley’s son, John Hanchar, who spoke with O’Grady’s widow, Diane O’Grady, after the pardon.
“She’s just stunned and hurting,” Hanchar said.
In short, Jerrold Nadler is a walking, talking, belching disgrace. And his shameful attack on David Friedman could be the highest praise possible.
"The nomination of David Friedman as the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel underscores, yet again, the extremist agenda of Donald Trump and his administration," Nadler ranted. He whined about Friedman's accurate description of J Street and claimed, bizarrely, that, "His appointment is not only offensive to both American and Israeli Jews, it again signals the intent of Donald Trump and the Republicans who support him to align with extreme right-wing positions."
The only thing offensive to American and Israeli Jews here is Nadler's claim to represent them. When he really represents J Street and its extremist anti-Israel positions.