Mike Rogers
- Role
- Republican U.S. Senate nominee speaking at the party's September 10 convention
- Statement date
Mike Rogers on Mike Rogers’s 9/11 accusation against Abdul El-Sayed
“Together, they attack America, excuse extremism, and treat our country like the villain.”
Source and context
Official statement
About this source
The campaign publishes the complete speech text and links its full recording at https://youtu.be/caqS8edf8p4. The selected wording was checked against the published text, not independently transcribed from the video. Rogers attributes the 9/11-deserved sentiment to Piker and criticizes El-Sayed's association with him; his running-mate language is rhetorical. A separate passage renews the accusation that El-Sayed excused the Temple Israel attack. Other allegations about campaign financing are outside these position records and are not established here. The source publication timestamp is verified from the campaign page metadata; it is not the speech's recording time.
Reporting
About this source
Complete original reporting dated September 10, displaying an update time of 8:15 p.m. Eastern. Only the calendar publication date is asserted; 12:00 UTC is a date-only placeholder, not the original publication time. The reporter explicitly dates Cole Wozniak's campaign statement September 10. His reply is recorded in his campaign-spokesperson capacity, not as a personal quotation by El-Sayed. The report also preserves El-Sayed's earlier rejection of justifying 9/11; that earlier context is not a newly made response.
Before the quotation
Rogers recalled the September 11 attacks, then identified Piker as the person who thought America deserved them. He described Piker as El-Sayed's running mate, a rhetorical label rather than a literal electoral ticket.
After the quotation
He went on to make separate campaign-finance and Temple Israel allegations. El-Sayed's prior rejection of justifying 9/11 and the campaign's September 10 rebuttal remain distinct records. September 10 is verified; 12:00 UTC is a date-only placeholder, not the speech time.
How this statement is classified
Rogers directly condemns El-Sayed's association with Piker. In this speech the 9/11-deserved sentiment is attributed to Piker, unlike Rogers's earlier direct assertion about El-Sayed's belief; that difference is preserved without inferring a retraction.
- Recorded on
- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Abdul El-Sayed, Hasan Piker
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