Alek Skarlatos is an Army National Guard veteran who heroically stopped a Muslim terrorist attack on a train in France in 2015, and he is now the Republican candidate for Congress in Oregon’s fourth district, which is a key district that is currently represented by an extreme leftist Congressman Peter DeFazio who has been serving for over 30 years.
“The 15:17 to Paris” official trailer. Alek Skarlatos played himself in a 2018 movie directed by Clint Eastwood called “The 15:17 to Paris” which shows how he and two friends were able to tackle and overpower an Islamic terrorist who had an AK-47 on a train in France. See the official website of the movie. The movie was based on the 2016 autobiography “The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes.”
“The 15:17 to Paris — Go Behind the Scenes with Clint Eastwood”
Alek Skarlatos
Oregon’s fourth Congressional district is the poorest in the state due to the leadership of its current Congressman Peter DeFazio. (Image from Wikipedia.)
See Skarlatos’s official Congressional run campaign website where you can give donations and offer to volunteer.
Following is a summary of the information in a Breitbart article about Skarlatos:
— Alek Skarlatos is now the Republican candidate for Congress in Oregon’s fourth district, which is a key district that is currently represented by the extreme leftist Congressman Peter DeFazio who has been serving for over 30 years.
— In 2016 Hillary Clinton won Oregon’s fourth district by only 1/10th of a percent, and it is a very possible that Skarlatos will be able to flip the seat for Republicans in the upcoming election. Skarlatos says the district should be Republican already anyway, being a toss-up at best because it is the closest district in the country that Trump lost, and it has voted Republican before for governors and Presidential candidates. If Skarlatos wins the seat it may deliver the House to the Republicans and unseat Nancy Pelosi.
— The current Congressman in his district is Peter DeFazio, who is a far-left politician that co-founded the House Progressive Caucus with Bernie Sanders, co-sponsored the corrupt “Green New Deal” with Ocasio Cortez, and he supports the “defund the police” movement. He has been serving for thirty years despite the citizens in that district only being moderates.
— Skarlatos says the people in southwestern Oregon have gotten a raw deal for far too long, and it is time to change the situation. He explains that his election is important nationally, but also for the people in his district because it is the poorest Congressional district in the State.
— He says that he thinks police brutality is a result of poor training, and cutting funding for police officers will only result in making more bad cops rather than improving the situaion.
— He thinks politics is a “disgusting business,” but he once met his State Senator on a plane to Washington D.C., where they were discussing politics, and the Senator suggested that Skarlatos should consider running for office.
— He says that he initially didn’t want to run for office, but after learning more about many of the problems in his state, he got angry about the situation and realized that he will be able to make a good difference.
About Skarlatos stopping a 2015 Muslim terrorist train attack in France
In 2015, Skarlatos has just finished a tour of duty in Afghanistan, and he was traveling across Europe with two of his childhood friends when a train they there traveling on was attacked by a Muslim terrorist. The train was traveling from Amsterdam to Paris via Brussels. The three were able to tackle and overpower the terrorist, saving many lives and becoming heroes.
— After their train crossed into France, they heard gunshots and breaking glass behind them and they saw a shirtless man wielding an AK-47.
— Skarlatos and his friends ran at the terrorist, tackled him, kicked the AK-47 away from him and tried to shoot the terrorist with it, but the gun jammed.
— Skarlatos’s friend Spencer put the terrorist into a chokehold, but the terrorist then pulled out a handgun and tried to shoot him with it, so Skarlatos dropped the AK-47, wrestled the handgun out of the hand of the terrorist, and hit him in the face with it a few times.
— The terrorist then pulled out a boxcutter and was cutting his friend Spenser with it in the back of the neck, but the three were able to overpower him and they started punching and kicking him.
— Skarlatos pointed the handgun at the terrorist and told him to stop resisting, but the terrorist didn’t speak English. He then tried to shoot the terrorist in the head with the gun but it didn’t fire because the clip has fallen out of the gun in the scuffle.
— His friend Spenser then managed to put the terrorist in a chokehold, and Skarlatos picked up the AK-47 and hit him in the head with the muzzle of it until he was unconscious.
— They noticed that a man who the terrorist had shot in the neck was now squirting blood out of his neck wound, so his friend Spencer who was an EMT in the air force rushed over to assist the man.
— Skarlatos mentioned that they were lucky that the AK-47 jammed because the ammunition was of poor quality.
— Skarlatos checked the rest of the train while Spenser tended to people’s wounds, and the train arrived in the station about twenty minutes later.
— Since that time, Skarlatos had starred in an autobiographical movie about himself that was directed by Clint Eastwood, and he was also a contestant on the “Dancing with the Stars” television show.