🧵 Saga file #61
Abdul El-Sayed Muslim Brotherhood controversy
Oct 12, 9 PM ET to Oct 20, 1 PM ET
- 3parts so far
- 24outlets carried a part
- 🫏5 · 2 · 17🐘left · center · right
- 7.7 daysrunning so far
- 177 minof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 12, 9 PM ET · on the front pages 4.6 daysAbdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission
- Oct 19, 2 PM ET · on the front pages 20 hoursAbdul El-Sayed's sister-in-law was placed on terror watch list, then removed after lawsuit
- Oct 18, 6 PM ET · on the front pages 1.8 daysAbdul El-Sayed confronts questions about Muslim Brotherhood ties
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Abdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission
Oct 12, 9 PM ET · 15 outlets · on the front pages 4.6 days
“Abdul El-Sayed’s Family Has ‘Long Been’ in Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Senate Candidate’s Sister Said in Unearthed Social Media Posts” first: The Washington Free Beacon
📺 CNN 27 min, Fox News 19 min, BBC News 73 s · 📻 1 newscast
2. Abdul El-Sayed's sister-in-law was placed on terror watch list, then removed after lawsuit
Oct 19, 2 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 20 hours
“Yet Another El-Sayed Terror Bombshell: His Sister-in-Law Was on the Terror Watchlist Under Obama - Report” first: The Western Journal
📺 Fox News 34 s
3. Abdul El-Sayed confronts questions about Muslim Brotherhood ties
Oct 18, 6 PM ET · 15 outlets · on the front pages 1.8 days
“Abdul El-Sayed: A Muslim Brotherhood Puppet and a Grave National Security Threat” first: The American Spectator
📺 CNN 116 min, Fox News 13 min
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-27 Guilt by association ×3 Manchurian candidate ×1 Dual loyalty ×1
- 2026-10-26 Guilt by association ×3 Manchurian candidate ×1 Dual loyalty ×1
- 2026-10-23 Guilt by association ×6 Manchurian candidate ×2 Dual loyalty ×2
- 2026-10-22 Guilt by association ×3 Manchurian candidate ×1 Dual loyalty ×1
- 2026-10-21 Dual loyalty ×1 ✨ Do you condemn? ×1
- 2026-10-20 Guilt by association ×3 Manchurian candidate ×1 Dual loyalty ×1 ✨ Hoist by his own petard ×1 ✨ Ratf*cking ×1
- 2026-10-19 ✨ Smear campaign ×1
- 2026-10-17 Guilt by association ×3 Manchurian candidate ×1 Dual loyalty ×1
- 2026-10-14 ✨ Guilt by association ×3 ✨ Manchurian candidate ×1 ✨ Dual loyalty ×1
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.