Posted on 03/30/2026 9:56:42 AM PDT by DFG
Michigan's left-wing Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, told staffers he wanted to avoid making a public statement about the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—or taking any public position on it at all—because "there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad" about his death, according to audio from a private campaign strategy call obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
If reporters pressed him to take a position, he said, he would change the subject to Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. "I'm just gonna go straight to pedophilia, frankly," El-Sayed said. "I'll just be like, 'Pedophile president decides that he doesn't like the front page news, so he decides to take us into another war.'"
His remarks came during a conference call with his communications team on March 1, during which the candidate and his communications team discussed his messaging on Operation Epic Fury. The previous day, Feb. 28, an Israeli airstrike killed the Iranian dictator, who, as president of Iran and then as the country's supreme leader starting in 1989, oversaw the murder and torture of political opponents inside Iran and deadly terrorist attacks against the country's enemies, including hundreds of Americans.
"I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today. So, like, I just don't want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I don't think it's worth even touching that," El-Sayed told his campaign team.
"We have the moral high ground here," the candidate said, adding that reporters would "try and bait us into saying, 'Yeah, but isn't it justified now that they took [Khamenei] out, right? And I just think, for us, we've got to be, like, 'no.'"
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head choppers got the Sadz?
I’ll drink to that!
You can be sure our guy will keep it down to a dull roar.
The absolute rage that comes upon me is indescribable when these guys open their mouths and talk. When one knows the horrors of islam and the immorality that comes with it (including paedophilia AND beastiality), one realizes that whoever practices islam must be eliminated.
I think Bibi should put Deadddddborn on his target list.
Islam is here and using our system of freedom against us.
Americans need to overcome the fear of being labeled a “phobe” or “ist” of any kind, stand up for our country or very soon it will no longer be ours.
You are RIGHT.
Deport them.
All Muslims that are not citizens must be expelled from America. No exceptions.
Not only typical lying democrat, but anti-American muslim as well. The irony is that democrats actually think they won’t eventual be eaten by the islamics juggernaut, if they agree with them now.
How do so many foreigners get elected to our government offices, much less so many that are able to even run for office????
“How do so many foreigners get elected to our government offices”
They saturate an area and elect a local pol like mayor.....the mayor then hires or appoints other mulims and it snowballs from there......that would be my guess anyway.
And real Americans apathy sure doesn’t help either.
You’re lucky to get 10% turnout for most local elections.
What a crock. “They” are sad because Trump took out a Muslim. HOWEVER. Those tribal inbreds HATE each other and if it wasn’t their hatred for Trump, whites, Christians, and the USA they would be at each others’ throats like they have been since their pedo prophet died.
Oh come on with that. We need to focus all our efforts on Congress, the Senate, the Presidency, and rely on the Supreme Court to handle all our problems, why get all hit and bothered about state and local elections?
They has the sads. 😭
“...And real Americans apathy sure doesn’t help either...”
Ain’t that the truth!!!!
“...About 6% of the 119th Congress members (26 representatives, 6 senators) were born outside the United States, representing countries like Cuba, Germany, India, Japan, Peru, and South Korea. These members, along with children of immigrants, represent a diverse, largely Democratic contingent (60 Dems to 19 Republicans) with high representation from California...”
ALL elections need to be scrutinized!!!!!!
Remember the quashed news stories (including those repeated by Trump years later) that some Muslims in the US smiled, cheered and celebrated the 9/11 murders as “about time the Americans got punched in the nose for once.”?
Similar strain runs through the Muslim community to this day.
—Me, the Michigan resident who is too close to Dearborn today. Next county.
If they like theocratic governments run by muzzies why don’t we just encourage/fund them to move to Pakistan or Somalia or Yemen?
Seems like they don’t think like Americans so should be happier elsewhere.
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