EXCLUSIVE: Michigan Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Blamed US for ‘Creating’ Terrorism: ‘What Happens When People Are in Pain?’
Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing candidate running in the hotly contested Michigan Democratic Senate primary, suggested at a July 2025 campaign event that terrorists commit “heinous act[s]” because they feel “pain and frustration and a level of lack of agency” due to “hypocritical” U.S. actions that are “creating pain,” video footage exclusively obtained by the Washington