Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has once again challenged President Donald Trump to take a lie detector test. El-Sayed, speaking on the television program "The View," stated he would be willing to undergo screening with a metal detector daily, provided the president agreed to a polygraph.
"I'll do a metal detector all day because I got nothing to hide," El-Sayed told the program's hosts. "But Donald, if you're watching, lie detector still on the table."
This renewed challenge stems from comments Trump made at an October rally in Port Huron, where he referred to El-Sayed as a "jihadist" and suggested he would be the only senator required to pass through a metal detector. El-Sayed, who will be the first Muslim to serve in the U.S. Senate, countered at a subsequent rally that he would submit to daily Senate screening if Trump took a polygraph.
El-Sayed indicated his proposed lie detector questions would address topics such as the late Jeffrey Epstein and the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
During the campaign, El-Sayed also faced critical remarks from other political figures. Vice President JD Vance described something about El-Sayed as "very, very evil," and Senator Ted Cruz labeled him a "jihadist leprechaun." El-Sayed has consistently denied any association with the Muslim Brotherhood, a group Cruz attempted to link him to.
El-Sayed suggested that these personal attacks indicated his opponents lacked substantive policy arguments. "If they had something to say about the price of gas or the price of groceries or the fact that people can’t see a doctor, they would have said it," he commented.