.Commentator Tucker Carlson defended Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race while endorsing his Sept. 11 comments.
Carlson criticized Republican candidate Mike Rogers over his national security record, urging voters to keep him away from Washington.
Addressing the Democratic candidate’s stance on foreign policy, Carlson defended him in a newsletter, writing, “El-Sayed did not celebrate airplane hijackings or cheerlead Al-Qaeda; he simply said that the U.S. conducting terrorism of its own in response to 9/11 was not exactly an appropriate reaction. He is obviously right”.
El-Sayed previously reflected on the tragedy during a 2021 podcast, saying, “9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people”.
Denouncing those earlier remarks, Rogers argued, “Abdul El-Sayed’s attitude towards the worst tragedy in American history is disgusting and makes him completely unfit to serve in public office”.
Pushing back, Carlson challenged the Republican candidate, writing, “Understanding that the Bush administration was wrong to kill hundreds of thousands of people and waste trillions of dollars in Iraq, even though, again, Iraq did not do 9/11, is disgusting?”.
Concluding his commentary, Carlson added, “if anyone in Michigan’s Senate race is ‘unfit to serve in public office,’ it is him”.