Alyssa Brouillet
Role at the time: Spokesperson for Mike Rogers’s U.S. Senate campaign
Defended or excused
Responding to
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."
Why we used this label
She supplied the campaign’s rationale for the accusation in a direct response to a request for evidence.
PolitiFact documents Rogers’s accusation and his campaign’s supporting rationale (opens in a new tab)Alyssa 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. DI records that distinction without adopting PolitiFact’s rating as the case’s purpose.