Alyssa Brouillet
Role at the time: Spokesperson for Mike Rogers’s U.S. Senate campaign
Defended or excused
Response to this claim
Abdul El-Sayed believes the United States deserved the September 11 attacks.
“Abdul was asked point blank if he’d disavow Hasan Piker’s comments, and he wouldn’t do it.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)PolitiFact documents Rogers’s accusation and his campaign’s supporting rationaleAlyssa Brouillet quotation; linked full April 7 event at 3:12:12; sources identify August 6 campaign email exchange
Original reporting includes the campaign’s response to a request for its evidence. Brouillet’s statement is a direct quotation from that exchange, not an inference from silence. The report distinguishes El-Sayed’s explicit rejection of justifying 9/11 from his refusal to disavow an ally. We record that distinction without adopting PolitiFact’s rating as the case’s purpose.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
She supplied the campaign’s rationale for the accusation in a direct response to a request for evidence.