President Trump on Monday warned that “jihadists” are being elected “all over the place.”
Mr. Trump said Democrats are nominating candidates in their primaries who are pushing “communism” and “jihadism.”
“A friend of mine called up, and he said, ’You should use the word ’jihadist,’ because that’s what’s happening,’” the president told reporters in the Oval Office.
He said these far-left Democratic candidates want to abolish the Senate and the Supreme Court.
“These are people that have not been successful. They’re people that have been, in many cases, bad news,” he said.
“They come from other failed countries, and they come here, and they tell us how to run our country. … They come from, let’s say, as an example, Somalia. They come in, and then they tell us how our Constitution, how our Declaration of Independence, how it works.”
He added, “It doesn’t work that way. And they’re not smart. They have no aptitude. They have nothing going. And they’re telling us how to run our country. And I just don’t think it’s going to happen.”
Mr. Trump has lately been lobbing criticism at Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. Mr. El-Sayed also has the most pro-Palestinian agenda of any Senate candidate this year.
On Saturday, Mr. Trump posted to Truth Social a photo of himself and first lady Melania Trump with the caption “Donald J. Trump,” with a photo of Mr. El-Sayed and his wife wearing a hijab with the caption “Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed,” which is El-Sayed’s full name.
Above the two photos is the caption “Two VERY DIFFERENT America’s.”
During Mr. El-Sayed’s appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, he was asked about the social media post.
“Yeah, he’s right,” Mr. El-Sayed said. “One in which your overlords are two people who don’t like each other but join in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you, or two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes together, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family, and know that that family is going to have the good things.”
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