Abdul el Sayed, the Michigan Democratic nominee for Senate, says a lot of things that aren’t true. We already knew that he bristles at questions that inconveniently highlight his radicalism, just as he’s temporarily feigning a lack of familiarity with his close friend and campaign surrogate who famously seethed that “America deserved 9/11.”

That bigot, whom el Sayed personally invited onto the campaign trail with him five times, is now dismissively referred to as some “streamer from California.”