El-Sayed's Essay Sparks Outrage as Trump Compared to Bin Laden

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed drew an explosive parallel between President Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and Osama bin Laden's role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a 2021 blog post, El-Sayed compared Trump to bin Laden as someone who 'recruited, radicalized and reassured' extremist supporters.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has made an explosive comparison between President Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and Osama bin Laden's role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, suggesting that Trump recruited, radicalized, and reassured those who carried out the attack. The comparison was drawn from a previously unearthed blog post by El-Sayed published in 2021. In the essay, El-Sayed argues that Trump's actions on January 6 were similar to bin Laden's tactics leading up to the 9/11 attacks.

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