Stephen Miller says a party allied with Piker "should get zero votes"
Stephen MillerDeputy White House chief of staff
On Hannity, Stephen Miller tied Abdul El-Sayed to Hasan Piker over Piker's "America deserved 9/11" remark, and said a party that makes common cause with him should receive no votes.
“The Democrat Party has embraced the platform of individuals who fundamentally hate America and hate Americans. ... Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan campaigned and promoted with Bernie Sanders a man named Hasan Piker. ... Hasan Piker said that America and Americans deserve 9/11.”
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Where this statement fits
Mike Rogers’s 9/11 accusation against Abdul El-Sayed
After Michigan’s August 2026 Senate primary, Mike Rogers asserted that Abdul El-Sayed believed America deserved the September 11 attacks. His campaign defended that accusation by citing El-Sayed’s association with Hasan Piker and reluctance to disavow him. El-Sayed had explicitly rejected justifying 9/11 and argued that appearing with a person did not imply agreement. He described Rogers’s attacks as an effort to divide voters through Islamophobia. Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer later debated the strategy and construction of a related Republican ad without endorsing its factual claims.
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Internet Archive TV News recording of Hannity on Fox News, aired September 11, 2026, 6:00-7:00pm PDT, with deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller as guest. The text available from this item is Internet Archive closed-caption data, not a verified verbatim transcription. The captions contain visible artifacts elsewhere in the hour ("country of conscious" for conscience, "fine phone calls" for final phone calls, "a ceasation" for association), so the wording here should be treated as caption-derived. The quoted lines are independently corroborated by contemporaneous write-ups at The Gateway Pundit and LifeZette, which render them the same way. Capitalisation has been normalised from the all-lowercase caption feed. This broadcast pre-dates the September 17 Axios interview by six days; Miller is responding to Piker's earlier "America deserved 9/11" remark, not to the al-Qaeda comparison.
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Said as a guest on Hannity on Fox News, September 11, 2026, in a segment on Democratic Senate candidates ahead of the midterms. This is six days before the Axios interview and responds to Piker's earlier remark, not the later al-Qaeda comparison.
After the quotation
Miller added that "a political party that gets into bed with, finds common cause with, that joins in concert with a man who says they had it coming and they deserved it is a party that in a country of conscience should get zero votes," and said the Democratic Party "fundamentally has sided with the jihadists in the war on terror." Quotation is drawn from Internet Archive closed captions, which contain artifacts elsewhere in the broadcast; the item's audio cannot be downloaded for independent transcription.
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Why this label?
Miller supports the substance of that line of attack, naming El-Sayed directly and treating his promotion of Piker as grounds to reject the party. He attributes the "deserved 9/11" sentiment to Piker rather than to El-Sayed himself, which is how the accusation has generally been constructed.
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