Democrat Invited Father Of Terrorist Who Killed Two Israeli Embassy Staff To Trump’s Address

The father of the man accused of gunning down two Israeli Embassy staffers on a street in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night attended President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress in March as a far-left Democratic lawmaker’s special guest.

Democratic Illinois Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, a member of the left-wing Congressional Progressive Caucus, invited Eric Rodriguez, a former Iraq War Army veteran and Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) hospital employee, to attend president’s speech to Congress on March 3. The VA worker’s son, Elias Rodriguez, fatally shot two Israeli embassy staffers outside of an event promoting Jewish heritage just miles from the U.S. Capitol, less than three months later.

“Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” a spokesperson for García told the New York Post, who first reported the connection to García, Thursday evening.

García said in a March 3 statement that he invited Rodriguez to attend the president’s address in an act of protest against the Department of Government Efficiency’s reforms to the VA. The Illinois Democrat also heralded the terrorist’s father as “the very best of our community” and an “outspoken advocate against attacks on veterans’ services and the rights of unionized federal employees.”