CNN host Abby Philip did her ‘fact first’ schtick on her show, which is usually cringe because it’s a ploy to provide cover for the Democrat Party. The Muslim Brotherhood narrative engulfing Abdul El-Sayed is solid. He wrote letters to these people after it was exposed that members of his family have a fondness for this movement, which is so wacky that even Muslim countries have banned it. El-Sayed’s letters are a new development and are damning for the man who spoke definitively about him and his family having no ties to this Islamist group.
Scott Jennings was not taking any of Philip’s crap about this seriously. Essentially, she said that El-Sayed’s letter was addressed to the government of Egypt, which was taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood at the time. They were Democratically elected. That doesn’t mean anything, Abby. They’re terrorists. Democratically elected terrorists don’t make them any less bad.
Scott Jennings hits the CNN panel with a SAVAGE reality check about Abdul El-Sayed’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The panel was bending over backwards to help El-Sayed wriggle out of the allegations — when Jennings stepped in and blew their entire narrative apart. They went into a death SPIRAL the moment Jennings dropped a fact they couldn’t explain away. GARCIA-NAVARRO: “The Muslim Brotherhood practically doesn’t exist anymore in Egypt because, you know, it was banned with…El-Sisi coming into power and they’ve been chased out of the country.” “And so this is like going back to 2011 and having some sort of debate about things that happened decades ago.” “And not only that, there is no evidence…they’re trying to do guilt by association…” Then Jennings tossed in the hand grenade. JENNINGS: “He did write that letter, did he not?” “The New York Times confirmed it tonight that he in fact wrote a letter to the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt encouraging a purge of the police…” The panel immediately scrambled to defend El-Sayed. PHILLIP: “Hold on. It was…it was a letter that was written to the democratically elected government of Egypt.” JENNINGS: “The Muslim Brotherhood.” Jennings wasn’t finished. “You can try to dress it up if you want, but to say that there’s no evidence that he supported that government is not true!” Bang on.
— Overton (@overton_news) October 22, 2026
GARCIA-NAVARRO: “The Muslim Brotherhood practically doesn’t exist anymore in Egypt because, you know, it was banned with…El-Sisi coming into power and they’ve been chased out of the country.”“And so this is like going back to 2011 and having some sort of debate about things that happened decades ago.”“And not only that, there is no evidence…they’re trying to do guilt by association…”Then Jennings tossed in the hand grenade.
JENNINGS: “He did write that letter, did he not?”“The New York Times confirmed it tonight that he in fact wrote a letter to the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt encouraging a purge of the police…”The panel immediately scrambled to defend El-Sayed.
PHILLIP: “Hold on. It was…it was a letter that was written to the democratically elected government of Egypt.”
JENNINGS: “The Muslim Brotherhood.”
What are we doing here?
El-Sayed’s waffling on the enemies of America, Israel, and radical Islam has Jewish Democrats in the Detroit suburbs reportedly flocking to Mike Rogers, enough to make the El-Sayed camp nervous. For now, they’re concerned that this guy is doing better with black voters, which he did by ordering fried chicken during an interview about Arab-black relations in Michigan. It was a train wreck, much like CNN’s interference for El-Sayed.
NEW YORK TIMES now confirming my reporting from weeks ago that El-Sayed signed a letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012 (naturally not crediting the Free Beacon at all) El-Sayed also refused to comment on letter to them!) https://t.co/VT4OmCQcwp https://t.co/nUyoDiZEyO
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) October 21, 2026