Mike Rogers
- Role
- Republican U.S. Senate nominee speaking at the party's September 10 convention
- Statement date
Mike Rogers on Abdul El-Sayed's cycle of violence framing after the Temple Israel attack
“And Abdul's instinct was to excuse it.”
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
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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 referred to children present during the Temple Israel attack and replayed El-Sayed's hurt-people framing. El-Sayed had also condemned the attack in March and later apologized for introducing context at that moment.
After the quotation
Rogers argued that Michigan needed a senator focused on victims rather than explanations of terrorists' motivations. The original condemnations, causal explanation and later apology remain in their dated records. The exact speech clock time is not asserted; 12:00 UTC is a date-only placeholder.
How this statement is classified
The selected passage directly condemns El-Sayed's explanation of the synagogue attack. It records Rogers's interpretation, not a finding that El-Sayed approved the attack.
- Recorded on
- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Abdul El-Sayed
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