Rogers alleges terrorist-linked funding for El-Sayed campaign
Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaking at the RNC midterm convention
“Abdul is funding his campaign with money from terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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. The transcript also includes Rogers’s separate campaign-finance allegation; it establishes that Rogers made the statement but does not identify a donor, amount, or supporting campaign-finance filing. The source publication timestamp is verified from the campaign page metadata; it is not the speech's recording time.
Before the quotation
During a campaign speech at a Republican National Convention midterm event, Rogers discussed El-Sayed’s association with Hasan Piker before turning to campaign finance.
After the quotation
Rogers continued by saying El-Sayed wanted money out of politics except from “recognized terrorist organizations.” The cited passage identifies no particular donor, contribution, or organization that gave money to the campaign.
How this statement is classified
Rogers uses the allegation to condemn El-Sayed’s campaign. The classification describes Rogers’s stated stance and does not assess whether the funding allegation is true.
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- People and groups discussed
- Abdul El-Sayed, Abdul for U.S. Senate
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