Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the radical left House member from Michigan, was recently caught on a hidden camera completely dismissing Abdul El-Sayed’s alleged family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
It makes perfect sense that this wouldn’t bother her at all.
She also blows off El-Sayed’s own claims that he has dual citizenship with Egypt. Because who cares, right?
RedState has details:
In the footage obtained by Townhall, Tlaib told an undercover operative that voters raising the Brotherhood issue were being “gaslighted” and insisted El-Sayed is “obviously” not a terrorist.
“Obviously he’s not a terrorist. They’re, you know, trying to gaslight people to believe that,” she claimed, adding that El-Sayed’s sister wouldn’t be a professor at the University of Chicago if she had such ties.
“His sister, by the way, his sister is a professor at a university, and like, if that was true, like, I don’t think she’d be working in a school,” Tlaib said.
Critics might counter that by pointing out the education system would be the most likely employer for somebody with terror group-related ties.
She also waved off questions about El-Sayed’s Egyptian passport, arguing that people with European passports face no similar scrutiny.
“If they’re from freaking Europe and stuff and they got, like, French passport, nobody gives a s***. But because he’s got an Egyptian one, everybody gives a s***,” she railed.
Tlaib was unimpressed when informed that her Democrat colleague had listed Egyptian citizenship on his curriculum vitae.
“I don’t know what the f*** a CV is,” she shot back in the most Squad-like answer possible.
Watch the whole thing below:
CAUGHT: RASHIDA TLAIB ON HIDDEN CAMERA SAYS IT DOESN’T MATTER IF ABDUL EL-SAYED HAS AN EGYPTIAN PASSPORT!
“If they’re from freaking Europe and stuff and they got, like, French passport, nobody gives a s***. But because he’s got an Egyptian one, everybody gives a s***.”
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— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 28, 2026
The left wants this win so badly.
They think if El-Sayed can win in Michigan, they can run people like him anywhere in the country.
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
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