President Trump Makes Misleading Claims Against Michigan Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed
During a recent speech in Dallas, President Trump directed criticism at Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat. President Trump's remarks, which lasted nearly two hours at the Republican's midterm convention, characterized El-Sayed as an individual who "hates family households (and) wants to destroy the American way of life." Specifically, President Trump made several claims, including that El-Sayed wants to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with 23 "far-left lunatic justices," that his sister celebrated a "terrorist slaughter of babies" in Israel, that his mother worked for an organization that supported individuals linked to Osama bin Laden, and that he campaigns with a "Marxist agitator" who said America deserved 9/11. However, reports indicate that many of these claims are erroneous, misleading, or lack proper context. El-Sayed has not made remarks about packing the Supreme Court to 23 members, his half-sister's social media post did not explicitly celebrate attacks, his ...
