Abdul El-Sayed claims US response to 9/11 scarred millions of other people

Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed condemned America’s response to the Sept.11, 2001, attacks on his now-defunct podcast shortly before the 20th anniversary of the national tragedy.On the Sept.

7, 2021, episode of “America Dissected,” El-Sayed intoned that “9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people.”“When we talk about 9/11, we often fail to center them.”El-Sayed contended that after the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, the US “wasted trillions of dollars to wage a war that we would ultimately lose” and condemned what he called an “era of death, destruction and destitution.”“It is disqualifying for a US Senate Candidate to believe that Americans should ‘center’ their grief from 9/11,” Republican candidate Mike Rogers, who chaired the House Intelligence Committee between 2011 and 2015, told The Post.“Abdul El-Sayed’s attitude towards the worst tragedy in American history is disgusting and makes him completely unfit to serve in public office.”The Rogers campaign has responded to the resurfaced comments by rolling out testimonials of Michiganders who helped with cleanup and recovery operations at Ground Zero.Four days after the podcast dropped, El-Sayed posted a since-deleted tweet that was similarly tone-deaf.“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed wrote on Sept.11, 2021.“Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”During the Michigan primary, El-Sayed stumped with far-left, Mao-loving Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who once said that America “deserved” 9/11, before attempting to walk back the shocking remark.Piker has since given a framed copy of the New York Times front page of Sept.

12, 2001...