Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed compared President Donald Trump’s role in the Jan.6 Capitol riot to Osama bin Laden’s role in the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks in a 2021 blog post that argued America has an obligation to hold the president accountable and "send the same message" it did after 9/11.The post, which appeared on a blog El-Sayed has since made private, is titled "Why aren't we treating Donald Trump like we treat other terrorists?" El-Sayed argued that racism explained what he described as a double standard in how the country responded to the terrorists behind 9/11 and Trump and his supporters after Jan.6."I was a junior in high school 20 years ago when I watched the second plane hit the Twin Towers from my chemistry classroom," he wrote in 2021."....
Then nearly 20 years later, on January 6th, 2021, I watched terrorists attack the symbol of my country and the Democracy my parents came here to partake in decades ago.And 36 year-old me was taken back to the pain of that high school chemistry classroom," he continued.AS AMERICAN PRIDE HITS A 25-YEAR LOW, A NEW 9/11 EDUCATION PLATFORM URGES THE NATION TO NEVER FORGETMichigan Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at The People V.
The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan.(Sarah Rice/Getty Images)He went on to say that Trump "recruited, radicalized and reassured" the Jan.
6 rioters in the same way bin Laden "recruited, radicalized and reassured" the "nineteen hijackers who attacked our country on 9/11."He also described Trump’s conduct as "terrorism," arguing that lawmakers had both a constitutional and "moral" obligation to convict him and bar him from seeking office again."So, yes, Donald Trump deserved his impeachment just like he deserves to be convicted and removed from the right to ever run for office again.Of course.
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