Michigan Republican Candidate Mike Rogers Criticizes Abdul El-Sayed's 9/11 Comments
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has accused his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, of being 'anti-American' due to past comments regarding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Rogers, speaking ahead of the GOP's midterm convention, stated that El-Sayed has 'separated himself from Team America' and that his rhetoric is 'divisive, angry, and anti-American.' The criticism stems from a September 2021 podcast episode where El-Sayed remarked that '9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people.' El-Sayed also posted a now-deleted tweet on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, mourning the lives lost but also stating, 'Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.' Rogers also highlighted El-Sayed's association with streamer Hasan Piker, who made controversial comments about 9/11 in 2019.