Alyssa Brouillet
Role at the time: Spokesperson for Mike Rogers's U.S. Senate campaign
Condemned
Response to this claim
El-Sayed's immediate response should have stopped at an unqualified condemnation; adding causal context at that moment was a mistake.
“The only reason he issued a fake apology five months later is because the polling told him to”
Open source (opens in a new tab)El-Sayed condemned Michigan synagogue attack. Critics said his other comments appeared to justify itOpening section quoting Rogers's Hannity remark, the paragraph quoting Rogers spokesperson Alyssa Brouillet, and the ruling
Why we used this label
The reference point is El-Sayed's cycle-of-violence framing of the Temple Israel attack. Brouillet rejects his August apology for that framing as insincere and an insult to the Jewish community, which keeps condemning the original response. We used Condemned. Mixed or conditional loses because she accepts no part of the apology. The quote is from PolitiFact's fact-check.