Alyssa Brouillet
- Role
- Spokesperson for Mike Rogers’s U.S. Senate campaign
- Statement date
"Abdul was asked point blank if he’d disavow Hasan Piker’s comments, and he wouldn’t do it."
Source and context
Reporting
About this source
Original reporting includes the campaign’s response to a request for its evidence. Brouillet’s statement is a direct quotation from that exchange, not an inference from silence. The report distinguishes El-Sayed’s explicit rejection of justifying 9/11 from his refusal to disavow an ally. DI records that distinction without adopting PolitiFact’s rating as the case’s purpose.
Before the quotation
PolitiFact asked the Rogers campaign to substantiate the accusation; its source list dates the email exchange to August 6.
After the quotation
The report contrasted this rationale with El-Sayed’s explicit rejection of justifying 9/11. The private email itself is not reproduced in the public source; its attributed quotation is original interview reporting.
How this statement is classified
She supplied the campaign’s rationale for the accusation in a direct response to a request for evidence.
- Recorded on
- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Abdul El-Sayed
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