Eric Daugherty: Follow WOW!

Eric Daugherty: Follow WOW!

Trump follow WOW! The Israeli plumber who SPRUNG into action and restrained the Islamist terrorist aboard FlyDubai, then leveled out the plane, is a TRUMP SUPPORTER- and Ambassador Huckabee just gave him a red MAGA hat signed by Trump Imagine that. HERO!!

Richard Miniter
First Published: October 3, 2026, 7:32 AM ET

— Follow WOW! The Israeli plumber who SPRUNG into action and restrained the Islamist terrorist aboard FlyDubai, then leveled out the plane, is a TRUMP SUPPORTER- and Ambassador Huckabee just gave him a red MAGA hat signed by Trump Imagine.

Mike Huckabee serves as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, representing American diplomatic relations in the region. Eric Daugherty is a political commentator and the chief content officer at Florida’s Voice. Their comments follow an incident where passenger Yaniv Hayun helped subdue an attacker on a flydubai flight.

Follow WOW! The Israeli plumber who SPRUNG into action and restrained the Islamist terrorist aboard FlyDubai, then leveled out the plane, is a TRUMP SUPPORTER- and Ambassador Huckabee just gave him a red MAGA hat signed by Trump Imagine that. HERO!! Trump gave HUGE PRAISE to this hero in the Oval Office earlier this week Also huge props to the Indian pilot who was able to unlock the cockpit despite being ST*BBED. Team effort! MAJOR WIN OVER ISLAMISM

Political commentator Eric Daugherty spoke at Washington D.C. on 10/03/2026.
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Political commentator Eric Daugherty spoke at Washington D.C. on 10/03/2026.

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Video transcript It’s an incredible story. I mean, I can relate the story, but you’re better off getting it from him. But by this time, I guess there are a lot of fake stories out there, and you know, you never know what’s happening. But I did speak to Bibi Netanyahu at length about this event, and it seems as though the co-pilot was perhaps a terrorist or perhaps a whack job. He stabbed the pilot. The pilot was in very bad shape, and I guess he still is in very bad shape. But he had the sense—amazing in a way—he was a hero to open the door. You know, those doors are solid steel. You can’t get them open from outside. He was able to fall back and get the door open and scream. And a plumber, an Israeli plumber, never flew a plane, was rarely in planes, very rarely flew. An Israeli plumber saw what was happening, strong—you know, when you lift pipe all day you’re strong. And he saw what was going on and he heard the screaming. He was toward the front where you had security in the back. You know, you had security and you had another flight crew. But they didn’t have time. The plane was going sharply down at an unbelievable angle, so sharp that the rudder ripped off the back of the plane. The plane wasn’t designed to go at a speed anywhere near that, and so it was well beyond its limits. And with the G forces as they were, he ripped this guy out of the seat, threw him back, the crowd got him, the passengers got him, grabbed him. And having never flown a plane, he took the stick, lifted it up, and leveled out the plane before it crashed. Now this is the story that I heard. I don’t know if it’s true, but that’s the story that I got from Bibi and from a couple of others—probably early—I don’t know if you’ve heard that story yet. I think it’s amazing. So a plumber, never flew a plane, strong guy—

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