Lefty Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed nets surprising backer: Absolutely right on 9/11

Nicotine-pouch salesman and onetime conservative pundit Tucker Carlson has all but endorsed lefty Michigan Senate hopeful Dr.Abdul El-Sayed while defending his controversial comments about 9/11.Carlson, 57, who recently fawned over disgraced Democratic former first son Hunter Biden, last week ripped into El-Sayed’s Republican foe, Mike Rogers, for his track record on national security issues and urged the “good people of Michigan keep this man far away from Washington.”“El-Sayed did not celebrate airplane hijackings or cheerlead Al-Qaeda; he simply said that the U.S.

conducting terrorism of its own in response to 9/11 was not exactly an appropriate reaction.He is obviously right,” Carlson wrote in his newsletter Friday.In a 2021 podcast episode, El-Sayed said, “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.”Four days after that, on the 20th anniversary of the attack, the Democrat wrote in a since-deleted tweet, “Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith.“Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”El-Sayed also has embraced radical Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who claimed that “America deserved 9/11” and later hung up a framed copy of a front-page story of the attack in his studio.“It is disqualifying for a US Senate candidate to believe that Americans should ‘center’ their grief from 9/11,” Rogers previously 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.”Carlson, who has spewed conspiracy theories about 9/11 and many other issues, blasted that response from Rogers, who briefly chaired the House Intellige...