How Laura Loomer and Trump allies amplified ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ lie dogging Abdul El-Sayed

<p>Michigan US Senate candidate signaled support for Egypt’s pro-democracy movement in 2012, not Islamist group</p><p>The Republican campaign to defeat Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/michigan">Michigan</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-senate">Senate</a> race by casting him as an Islamic extremist is based on a false claim first made by the conspiracy theorist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/who-is-laura-loomer">Laura Loomer</a> eight years ago, a Guardian review of the evidence reveals.</p><p>Loomer, an influential outside adviser to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> who calls herself “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/laura-loomer-donald-trump-florida/index.html">a proud Islamophobe</a>”, has claimed since El-Sayed entered politics in 2018 that an open letter he signed in support of democracy in Egypt in 2012 was a public endorsement of the <

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