El-Sayed Apologizes to Jewish Democrats

“Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed apologized to Jewish Democrats on Saturday for saying ‘hurt people hurt people’ as part of his response to a March attack on a synagogue near Detroit,” CNN reports.

Said El-Sayed: “My comments might have been misconstrued to be justifying something I did not intend to justify. To anybody who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry. That was not my intention.”

He added: “We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright. What I was trying to do is offer context for why it happened, but it wasn’t the time for context. And you don’t ever want to trample somebody’s pain.”