Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed old tweet trashing America on 9/11, faces calls from Dems to disavow Piker
WASHINGTON — Michigan Senate hopeful Dr.Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed an old tweet trashing America on the 20th anniversary of the Sept.
11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to disavow far-left streamer Hasan Piker.In the now-deleted tweet, El-Sayed mourned the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 and then noted that he planned to grieve the deaths he blamed on America over the wars that followed.
“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed wrote on Twitter, as it was then called.“Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”That appears to be a reference to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the fighting that took place in Pakistan during the 2000s.
It’s not entirely clear when he scrubbed that tweet, which was first uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon, but has gained renewed attention as the country approaches the 25th anniversary of the attack.A copy of the since-deleted tweet has been saved on the Wayback Machine.“Abdul has always unequivocally condemned terrorism and the September 11 attacks,” an El-Sayed campaign told CBS News about his past remarks on 9/11.“Mike Rogers’ attempts to misrepresent Abdul’s beliefs are bad-faith lies meant to mislead Michiganders.” The Post contacted El-Sayed’s campaign for comment.
During his campaign, El-Sayed has faced scrutiny over his ties to Piker, with whom he stumped on the final day of his Democratic primary campaign.Piker infamously said in 2019 that “America deserved 9/11,” before later, very begrudgingly, sort of conceding it was an “inappropriate” comment.
He was later spotted with a framed copy of a front-page newspaper showing the Twin Towers in the aftermath of the Sept.11, 2001, attackPiker, a multimillionaire socia...