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Unearthed Video Shows El-Sayed Claiming He’s a ‘Dual’ Citizen, Which His Campaign Says Isn’t True
Mediaite ^ | October 6, 2026 | Alex Griffing

Posted on 10/06/2026 4:07:50 PM PDT by Miami Rebel

A newly unearthed video shows Michigan Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed claiming he is a dual citizen, which his campaign now denies.

“I carry dual citizenship, and I grew up spending most of my summers in another country where I understood what it meant not to have the right to self-govern,” El-Sayed told a Detroit GlobeMed conference in 2016. The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross first reported on the comments this week and added:

El-Sayed went on to tell a story, one he still tells on the campaign trail a decade later, that he was questioned by Egyptian police during one of those summer visits for publicly cursing Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president at the time.

The Beacon also noted, “The newly revealed 2016 video marks at least the second time El-Sayed has publicly claimed to have Egyptian status. His academic résumé stated in 2014 that he was a citizen of the United States and Egypt.

El-Sayed’s campaign spokeswoman Roxie Richner told the Beacon, “Abdul is not a dual citizen by any verifiable metric and never has been.”

Richner added that El-Sayed was “told as a child that his grandfather had pursued Egyptian citizenship on his behalf, for which he was eligible due to his parents being born in Egypt. This was an error based on what he was told by family members secondhand. When he tried to verify this later on in life, he and his family were unable to find any documentation to verify this claim.”

El-Sayed has also come under fire on the campaign trail for claiming he is a physician.

Mehdi Hasan pressed El-Sayed on this point during a July interview, “You got attacked by your rivals for calling yourself a physician, not just a doctor, even though you don’t have a valid state medical license in New York or Michigan, which apparently is what you need legally to call yourself a physician. Do you wish you’d just stuck to calling yourself a doctor, which you are, to avoid all of this controversy and attacks on your physician status?”

El-Sayed replied, “You know, at the end of the day, it’s not about whether or not I’m a physician or a doctor. The question is, can you see a doctor? It’s not about my education, it’s about whether your kid gets good education. So I’m just not spending time on that.”

“Well, that’s a good line, but people would say it’s also about — did you tell the truth?” Hasan pressed back.

El-Sayed replied, “Well, I would say that I was the health director for the city of Detroit, and I’ve done more to provide more people health care and eliminate medical debt than most doctors have done in their practice career.”


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KEYWORDS: abdulelsayed; abdullard; alohasnackbarboy; aoc; demagogicparty; democrattruth; elsayed; headchopper; iheadchopyou; liberaltruth; michigan; muslimtruth; snackbarboy

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1 posted on 10/06/2026 4:07:50 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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“I understood what it meant not to have the right to self-govern...and boy is that what I have in mind for you guys.”


2 posted on 10/06/2026 4:09:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Can’t we get any AMERICANS to get into the running for the various political offices around this country, and stop relying on these hyphenated mongrels to rush in and do the jobs that Americans just do not seem to want to do?

We don’t have to import jackasses and charlatans. We have plenty of our own already.


3 posted on 10/06/2026 4:12:24 PM PDT by alloysteel (Strength to make change happen, humility to accept reality, and wisdom to know the difference.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Half Jihadist, half Hobbit?


4 posted on 10/06/2026 4:14:19 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Miami Rebel

October now in full swing, let the games begin


5 posted on 10/06/2026 4:15:33 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: Miami Rebel

Does Abdullard ever tell the truth?


6 posted on 10/06/2026 4:16:37 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Small potatoes to the left.


7 posted on 10/06/2026 4:22:09 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Miami Rebel

Either way, he’s a LIAR!!!!


8 posted on 10/06/2026 4:25:22 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Miami Rebel

He’s lying to the infidels, as Fuslims always do.


9 posted on 10/06/2026 4:28:08 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
Does Abdullard ever tell the truth?

Not on purpose.

10 posted on 10/06/2026 4:29:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: beethovenfan

Definitely DOES NOT seem to be someone we would want in our political system.


11 posted on 10/06/2026 4:31:09 PM PDT by oldtech (oltech)
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To: Miami Rebel
"You know, at the end of the day, it’s not about whether or not I’m a physician or a doctor. The question is, can you see a doctor?"

You know, at the end of the day, it's not about whether or not I am lying. The question is, can you trust me?
12 posted on 10/06/2026 4:32:23 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: alloysteel
Can’t we get any AMERICANS to get into the running for the various political offices around this country...

"As of 2024, approximately 50.2 million people in the U.S. were born in a different country."

"The foreign-born population in the United States includes anyone living in the country who was not a U.S. citizen at birth, such as naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, temporary visa holders, and unauthorized immigrants." Congress.gov

New York City has 3.1 million foreign-born residents, with the largest groups from the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, and Ecuador. cmsny.org

13 posted on 10/06/2026 5:42:21 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Miami Rebel

Well, one thing we know for an absolute certainty; he’s a liar. Was he lying then or is he lying now? Doesn’t matter.


14 posted on 10/06/2026 5:45:16 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: Miami Rebel

He is a crafty and clever liar. Notice how he AGAIN changed the subject, challenged that the questioner was wrong to ask the question, that the question was the wrong one and he himself is quite remarkable.

He said recently in Michigan that he deleted his old social media and email replies about his stances on issues such as the October 7th and 9/11 perps to do us the favor of not having there confusing us about context. Now without being on the record we won’t confuse the context. Jeesh.


15 posted on 10/06/2026 5:48:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

No. He does not see any reason to do so. It is a means to an end


16 posted on 10/06/2026 5:55:12 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

taqiyah, war is deceit


17 posted on 10/06/2026 7:07:36 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: Miami Rebel

A fabulist


18 posted on 10/06/2026 9:23:00 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: All

Abdul;s earlier faculty résumé circa 2013–2014—— when El-Sayed was Assistant Professor at Columbia U-——is where Abdul, himself, listed his dual citizenship in the US and Egypt.

A campaign spox recently stated that El-Sayed “made a mistake” on the resume.
He “says” he based the dual citizenship on “family information” wrt his grandfather.

Alexandria, Egypt is where his paternal grandparents raised
Abdul’s father before the latter immigrated to the United States.


19 posted on 10/06/2026 9:26:11 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands. " (Psalm 19:1))
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To: All

Abdul;s earlier faculty résumé circa 2013–2014—— when El-Sayed was Assistant Professor at Columbia U-——is where Abdul, himself, listed his dual citizenship in the US and Egypt.

A campaign spox recently stated that El-Sayed “made a mistake” on the resume.
He “says” he based the dual citizenship on “family information” wrt his grandfather.

Alexandria, Egypt is where his paternal grandparents raised
Abdul’s father before the latter immigrated to the United States.


20 posted on 10/06/2026 9:26:12 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands. " (Psalm 19:1))
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