El-Sayed rejects justification for the September 11 attacks in anniversary statement
Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, delivering an anniversary statement published by his campaign
“Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians. Nothing.”
Source and context
Official statement
About this source
The campaign’s press release says El-Sayed released a video statement that morning and links an X post.
Before the quotation
The campaign’s September 11 release introduces a video statement commemorating the attacks. Before the selected words, El-Sayed discusses American civic ideals and honors those killed in terrorism.
After the quotation
He mourns the victims, families, and destruction, then calls for building a more inclusive and just country. The release says he attended Lansing’s remembrance ceremony that morning. Rogers and Piker are not named. The published text was checked; the linked video was unavailable. The date is verified at day level; noon UTC is a storage placeholder.
How this statement is classified
This statement provides contrary contextual evidence to the belief attributed to El-Sayed in Claim 113. He expressly rules out justification of the attacks. The classification concerns that attribution; the source does not establish an explicit reply to Rogers or condemnation of Rogers’s campaign conduct.
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