El-Sayed: Trump has as much regard for Constitution as ‘a piece of toilet paper’
Trump called El-Sayed a jihadist and warned his election would endanger Americans, as the Democrat said the attacks distract from the campaign’s real issues.
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump attacked Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a Port Huron, Michigan rally, calling him a "jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member" and claiming he would need a metal detector to enter the Senate.
- Republican candidate Mike Rogers has previously linked El-Sayed to extremist groups including the Muslim Brotherhood, while Trump alleged the Democrat wants to impose "Sharia law" on the country.
- During the event, Trump invoked antisemitic tropes about Jewish voters and welcomed David Beamer, whose son was killed in the 9/11 attacks, to amplify the rhetoric against El-Sayed.
- On Monday, El-Sayed dismissed the attacks at a Detroit news conference, calling them "deflections and deceptions based on no evidence" designed to distract from inflation and the war on Iran.
- Bishara Bahbah, founder of Arab Americans for Trump, criticized Trump's comments as "racist," while the competitive Michigan race could determine Senate control for the next two years.
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'Is Abdul a jihadist?': Vance accuses El-Sayed of anti-US hatred; comments on his 'weird friend'
Vice President JD Vance took aim at Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during a press gaggle on October 27, defending President Donald Trump’s controversial “jihadist” remark and commenting on Abdul's 'weird' friends. He accused El-Sayed of promoting what he described as anti-white racial hatred.Asked whether El-Sayed was a jihadist, as Trump had claimed, Vance pointed to the candidate’s political associations and past remarks, …
Vance Confronted About Trump’s Remark That El-Sayed Is a ‘Jihadist’
Vice President JD Vance was confronted on Tuesday about President Donald Trump's comment days earlier that Abdul El-Sayed is a "jihadist," to which the veep replied that the Michigan Senate hopeful has "weird friends." The post Vance Confronted About Trump’s Remark That El-Sayed Is a ‘Jihadist’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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