'Defund the Police' Scandal Now Rocking Michigan Democrat's Senate Campaign

The internet is forever.

Most people know this, of course. A statement made years before can easily turn around to bite one, and if you're a politician running for a high-profile position, like, say, the United States Senate, people will be looking for those embarrassing posts. What's more, even if those posts are later deleted, it's a safe bet that someone screenshotted them.

So, when a Democrat Senate candidate claims he was never against the egregious "defund the police" stupidity, it's inevitable that someone will uncover evidence that he's not being completely forthcoming. That's what has happened to the Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.

Michigan Democratic Senate front-runner Abdul El-Sayed has faced criticism for previous comments he made about defunding the police. In recent interviews, El-Sayed has insisted he “never, never called for defunding” the police. Last week in an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, he said he deleted old tweets supporting the movement because they were taken “out of context,” calling them “clickbait in DC.”
But interviews from 2020 show El-Sayed repeatedly endorsed defunding the police, according to a CNN KFile review of his media appearances. “We do need to defund the police,” El-Sayed said in a 2020 radio interview while specifically discussing how the slogan could undermine criminal justice reform efforts.

It's getting to the point that whenever a Democratic officer-holder or candidate for office adopts a pious expression and solemnly claims, "I never said that," we can safely presume the opposite is true. He refers, in this interview, to deleted tweets, calling them "clickbait." Or, one might say, it's an incident in which he inadvertently told the truth.

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Now, El-Sayed's supporters are claiming that he didn't word it that way; that he supports transferring funds from the police to social services, to the schools, to public libraries - because, of course, the crime rate in a given area always corresponds to the number of public libraries, yes? (No.) In other words, the best argument that Michigan Democrats have here is that Abdul El-Sayed, the latest in a plague of "democratic socialists" (communists) seeking office, didn't actually advocate for zeroing out police budgets completely; just for leaning them out to support more woke horse squeeze.

Here's what he said in 2020 on Detroit Public Radio:

“I believe that we do need to defund the police in so far as defunding the police is disinvesting in the means of incarcerating someone or killing them on the streets,” he added. “And in investing more in the means of educating and empowering, engaging communities with the means of being able to take on systemic poverty, that we’ve allowed systematic racism to allow to fester in too many communities.”
El-Sayed added it meant investing less money in police.
“What if we were to invest in social services? What if we were to invest in public schools? What if we were to invest in public libraries? What would the world look like there? And I think that has to be the way we go. And that means both investing more in these services, and it also means investing less in police,” he said.

This is precisely the well that the anti-law enforcement lefties always return to, as though well-funded social workers are the answer to cities brimming with crime.

The internet is forever. Even if Abdul El-Sayed's tweets are gone, his public comments on this and other issues remain, and the Michigan GOP should hang those comments around El-Sayed's neck like a metaphorical millstone, from now until November.

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