Alana Goodman has a follow-up story on the efforts of Micigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to navigate in the wake of Ayatollah Khameni’s assassination. Yesterday Alana reported on internal campaign deliberations in which El-Sayed observed that potential voters in Dearborn were choked up about the death of Khameni. You know, they are fans of terrorism and that “Death to America” thing.
El-Sayed is sad too. He’s angry. He’s in pain. He’s vaguely threatening the Free Beacon:
Nearly 12 hours after the story broke, El-Sayed released a statement calling the Free Beacon a “rightwing news outlet” that “may have illegally and unethically obtained” the audio recording.
“The fact that a rightwing news outlet may have illegally and unethically obtained a deliberation about how to talk about this by way of a disgruntled former employee is only a distraction,” El-Sayed said in the statement. “They’re distracting from the fact that Donald Trump, Mike Rogers, the entire MAGA base doesn’t want to talk about the pain they’re forcing us all into.”
El-Sayed also accused the Trump administration of an “illegal and unjustifiable war” and argued that “Americans are paying with their lives and livelihoods for a war MAGA swore they’d never take us into.”
Unlike El-Sayed, Mitrani did not suggest that the Free Beacon illegally obtained the recording.
El-Sayed must be crying in his beer. Unlike El-Sayed, the lawyer who responded on behalf of the campaign when contacted by Goodman prior to publication did not suggest that the Free Beacon illegally obtained the recording. However, the Supreme Court case of Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001) is on all fours. It accords the Free Beacon First Amendment protection if it did not obtain the recordings illegally, which of course it didn’t.
El-Sayed’s current attack display a variation of the tactic he formulated in the internal campaign deliberations:
If reporters pressed El-Sayed to take a position [on Khameni’s assassination] he said, he would change the subject to President Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m just gonna go straight to pedophilia, frankly,” El-Sayed said. “I’ll just be like, ‘Pedophile president decides that he doesn’t like the front page news, so he decides to take us into another war.’”
Cry Epstein and let slip the dogs of sore!
