Abdul El-Sayed Calls Streamer Hasan Piker’s Past 9/11 Comment ‘Dumb’ – NOTUS

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed denounced streamer Hasan Piker’s past comment that America deserved the Sept. 11 attacks, calling it a “dumb statement.” “Of course it was a dumb statement and of course I think Hasan himself would say that was a dumb statement,” El-Sayed said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.” El-Sayed appeared with Piker on the campaign trail ahead of the Michigan primary, triggering a backlash over Piker’s 2019 comment that “America deserved 9/11, dude,” and that we “totally brought it on ourselves.” Piker, a left-wing commentator whose Twitch stream is one of the platform’s most subscribed channels, walked those comments back two days later. El-Sayed would not answer whether he plans to campaign with Piker ahead of the general election. “He disavowed it. So yes, America didn’t deserve 9/11, but you know, to sit here and play gotcha politics with a dumb thing somebody said out of context that they disavowed themselves — to say, ‘Oh, well, what does that mean about what you think?’” El-Sayed said. “I want to be held accountable for what I say and what I do, rather than this idea that we’re so stuck in cancel culture that all
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