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Mike Rogers Awkwardly Waits for Applause After El-Sayed Dig
Mediaite • • nation
Key Points:
- Michigan Senate candidate Rep. Mike Rogers made an unenthusiastic joke about his opponent, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, alleging El-Sayed accepted campaign donations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which failed to elicit applause from the crowd initially.
- Rogers claimed, based on a report from the right-wing Washington Free Beacon, that El-Sayed received donations from individuals connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group considered a terrorist organization.
- El-Sayed has firmly disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood and condemned Rogers’s allegations, though he has not addressed specific campaign donations publicly.
- President Donald Trump echoed Rogers’s claims at the rally, labeling El-Sayed a jihadist and warning that El-Sayed’s Senate role would threaten U.S. national security by potentially influencing military and homeland security decisions.
