El-Sayed has repeatedly denied having any personal or family ties to the group, dismissing his half-sister's 2012 social media posts as 'hearsay' during a tense interview with NBC News. While the El-Sayed campaign has called these allegations 'racist' bad-faith attacks, records indicate his father-in-law donated $200,000 to a super PAC supporting his run and 41 donors linked to the Council on American-Islamic Relations contributed over $115,000 to the campaign.
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Trump Labels Michigan Senate Nominee Muslim Brotherhood Member
US Politics6 days ago
Reports have surfaced that Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed used a deleted Substack article to defend Mohamed Soltan, a friend imprisoned for financing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This development coincides with a direct accusation from Donald Trump, who claimed El-Sayed once admitted his own membership in the organization and asserted that no member of the group can serve in the U.S. Congress. Soltan's father, a senior Brotherhood official, has allegedly recorded calls for the murder of Israeli diplomats and the obliteration of the United States.
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