Tucker Carlson Sides With Abdul El-Sayed Over 9/11 Remarks– legalinsurrection.com

Tucker Carlson has inserted himself into Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, on the side of progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, defending the candidate’s inflammatory comments about 9/11 while training his fire on Trump-backed Republican Mike Rogers.

In his Friday newsletter, Carlson declared El-Sayed “obviously right” after resurfaced remarks put the Democrat on the defensive for arguing that Americans fail to “center” the millions harmed by the U.S. response to the September 11 attacks. Carlson stopped short of a formal endorsement, but urged Michigan voters to keep Rogers “far away from Washington.” 

The remarks at issue came from a 2021 podcast. 

“9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people. When we talk about 9/11, we often fail to center them.”

Four days later, on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, El-Sayed posted a since-deleted message that mourned the nearly 3,000 Americans killed before pivoting to U.S. war casualties abroad. 

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”