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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isabel Keane

‘Mohammed el-Sayed’: Trump says he can change name of ‘jihadist’ Michigan Senate candidate

President Donald Trump raged against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, once again using the wrong name while declaring that he can call the Democrat “whatever the hell I want.”

Trump has repeatedly referred to El-Sayed, who is Muslim, as “Mohammed,” when his first name is actually Abdul. The 41-year-old epidemiologist is facing Republican Mike Rogers in the November midterm elections for one of the country’s most consequential Senate races.

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