A leaked recording from a private campaign call has exposed a Michigan Democrat running for the U.S. Senate admitting he wanted to avoid condemning the American strike that eliminated Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, because there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad about the terrorist masterminds death, according to the audio.
The recording, obtained and reported by WND, captures Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on a March 1 strategy call explicitly instructing his staff that he did not want to take any public position on the Feb. 28 operation that removed Khamenei from the world stage. El-Sayed told his team, I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today, adding, So, like, I just dont want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I dont think its worth even touching that.
El-Sayed framed his refusal to speak out as a matter of political advantage, insisting his campaign should not acknowledge any justification for the strike that protected American interests and allies. We have the moral high ground here, he said, warning that reporters would try and bait us into saying, Yeah, but isnt it justified now that they took [Khamenei] out, right? And I just think, for us, weve got to be, like, no.
According to the account, El-Sayed also laid out a strategy to deflect any media questions about the killing of Khamenei by launching a personal smear against President Donald Trump. The Free Beacon explained that if pressed to take a position, El-Sayed indicated he would pivot to Trumps past association with Jeffrey Epstein, declaring, Im just gonna go straight to pedophilia, frankly, and, Ill just be like, Pedophile president decides that he doesnt like the front page news, so he decides to take us into another war.
The leaked call has already drawn sharp criticism from journalists and observers who see the remarks as revealing and extreme. Bill Melugin of Fox News reacted bluntly, stating, Yikes. Theyve got the audio too. Wild that this call with his staffers leaked like this, while Josh Kraushaar, editor in chief of Jewish Insider, said the audio speaks volumes about the level of extremism within the El-Sayed coalition here.
When the Free Beacon sought comment from the campaign, it did not receive a substantive defense of El-Sayeds words, but instead a legal warning from the Washington, D.C., law firm Sandler Reiff. I write to inform you that the audio recording that you base the below questions on was obtained without the campaigns permission, and without knowledge that individuals were being recorded, wrote David Mitrani, a partner at the firm, who further advised that The campaign is considering its legal options against the individual in question. Given these circumstances, the campaign expects that you will take this into account in determining whether to proceed with any reporting on this matter.
For voters in Michigan and beyond, the episode raises serious questions about a Senate hopeful who appears more concerned with appeasing a radical base and attacking President Trump than standing firmly against a hostile regime and its late supreme leader. As President Trumps second administration continues to confront foreign threats and defend American security, El-Sayeds own words now stand as a stark record of where he chose to remain silentand whom he chose to attackwhen moral clarity and national resolve were most needed.
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