{"id":78577,"date":"2026-09-11T19:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/el-sayed-ignites-firestorm-after-sharing-9-11-message-on-social-media-piece-of-s\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:54:47","slug":"el-sayed-ignites-firestorm-after-sharing-9-11-message-on-social-media-piece-of-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/el-sayed-ignites-firestorm-after-sharing-9-11-message-on-social-media-piece-of-s\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed ignites firestorm after sharing 9\/11 message on social media: ‘Piece of s—‘"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abdul El-Sayed<\/a>, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, sparked social media backlash after posting his 9\/11 message on his X account.<\/p>\n

“They didn\u2019t just attack America that day they attacked the idea of America,” El-Sayed said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The notion of a nation brought together by ideals \u2014 a place where freedom and commitment to justice bind us, even if, at times, we struggle to fully realize it,” the controversial far-left candidate continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Today on 9\/11 we remember the lives that were taken from us in a terrible act of terrorism.”<\/p>\n

CBS NEWS TAKES HEAT OVER REPORT ON DEM HOPEFUL ABDUL EL-SAYED’S NOW-DELETED 9\/11 POSTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Online viewers quickly reminded El-Sayed of his friendship with Hasan Piker<\/a>, the progressive streamer who has gone viral multiple times for previously claiming that the U.S. “deserved 9\/11.”<\/p>\n

“Shut up, you FRAUD,” the Libs of TikTok, a conservative X account that focuses on key social and cultural issues, said in a post<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n

Steve Guest, a frequent political commentator and a former staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a>, R-Texas, echoed the criticism in a post of his own, posting a picture of Piker and El-Sayed standing together.<\/p>\n

“This you?” Guest wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

He also included a caption on the photo with another one of Piker\u2019s quotes.<\/p>\n

“\u2018I hate America\u2026 at least I say it with my f—ing chest,\u2019” the picture\u2019s caption read.<\/p>\n

“Campaigning with a guy who said we deserved 9\/11\u2026 his brazen dishonesty makes him all the bigger piece of s—,” GOP consultant Ryan Girdusky posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

“You\u2019re a disgrace. You remain unwilling to disavow your chief spokesman who said “America deserved 9\/11,” National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director Joanna Rodriguez posted on X.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You belittled the American lives lost year after year while giving excuses and showing sympathy for terrorists.”<\/p>\n

“Good job reading from that script buddy,” GOP digital strategist Mike Hahn wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

Joey Mannarino, the co-founder of the Overton Institute, a right-wing media group, expressed surprise that El-Sayed had gained any kind of momentum in his campaign for Senate.<\/p>\n

EL-SAYED TORCHED ONLINE AFTER BRUSHING OFF QUESTIONS ABOUT HASAN PIKER CAMPAIGN TIES: \u2018WHAT A PAL\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“How in God\u2019s name is Abdul El-Sayed even close to winning this race? The man campaigns with people who say America deserved 9\/11. He is a radical Islamist extremist if I\u2019ve ever seen one. And this is who Michigan wants to put in the Senate?” Mannarino wrote.<\/p>\n

In the past, El-Sayed has made statements noting he doesn\u2019t share all of Piker’s views.<\/p>\n

“But I want to be crystal clear, nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokesperson,” El-Sayed said after Piker called Israel a “Jewish ISIS.”<\/p>\n

“And while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we\u2019re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools and healthcare. Because that\u2019s what Michiganders keep asking about.”<\/p>\n

Chuck Ross, an investigative reporter with The Washington Free Beacon, noted that El-Sayed\u2019s post didn\u2019t focus on the wars that followed 9\/11,<\/a> a topic El-Sayed has frequently invoked when speaking about the terror attack.<\/p>\n

“El-Sayed, reading off a teleprompter, gives a statement about 9\/11. This time he sticks to just 9\/11 and not the \u2018War on Terror\u2019 aftermath that he usually mentions in his 9\/11 anniversary posts,” Ross wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the past, El-Sayed has held up the war on terror<\/a> as an example of military aggression, using it as Israel prepared to strike Gaza back in October 2023.<\/p>\n

ABDUL EL-SAYED SAYS RALLYING WITH HASAN PIKER DOESN’T MEAN HE ENDORSES ‘AMERICA DESERVED 9\/11’ REMARK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The President\u2019s visit to Israel as it plans a major escalation & invasion of Gaza is already being held up as an endorsement of the violence being unleashed on innocent Palestinians. I can\u2019t help but hear echoes of 9\/11. When do we learn that more violence doesn\u2019t fix violence?” El-Sayed wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

El-Sayed\u2019s campaign did not respond to requests for comment on why he had not made more efforts to disavow Piker.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, sparked social media backlash after posting his 9\/11 message on his X account. “They didn\u2019t just attack America that day they attacked the idea of America,” El-Sayed said. “The notion of a nation brought together by ideals \u2014 a place where freedom and commitment to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}