Abdul El-Sayeds pattern of heated exchanges with reporters draws further scrutiny after latest meltdown

Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, D-Mich., went viral this week for his latest altercation with a reporter, putting a spotlight on a history of tense exchanges with the press.El-Sayed had a combative exchange with Sky News reporter James Matthews just hours before his victory in Tuesday’s midterm elections.The exchange began when the British journalist attempted to question El-Sayed, but it was hardly the first time El-Sayed appeared to either lose his temper, interrupt a journalist or respond sharply to a reporter.Heritage Foundation media fellow Tim Young is well aware that President Donald Trump also has a long history of criticizing reporters, but he believes the situations are “completely different.”“El-Sayed gets angry at the media for asking actual questions about him and his relationship to organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood.

He legitimately doesn’t want to answer those questions, so he snaps,” Young told Fox News Digital.“Trump gets asked the same narrative-shaping questions all the time, then watches networks create false narratives about him on air, which makes him angry,” Young continued.“The two are not the same.”El-Sayed recently scolded a reporter for asking him about Democratic Michigan Rep.

Haley Stevens, sarcastically declaring, “You’re really asking the questions that the people want to hear.”“Ask me a serious question,” he added.El-Sayed also got testy with NBC News anchor Tom Llamas in October after Llamas questioned him about allegations involving his family’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.“It’s funny to me.I was born in 1984, down the street in Rochester Hills.

I was raised here in Michigan, went to the University of Michigan, rebuilt the health department in this city, led the health department in this county, and you want to ask me about Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?” he retorted.El-Sayed then accused Llamas of using “hearsay evidence from a tweet” and suggested the “NBC Nightly New...