President Donald Trump recently accused Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of being "on the side of the terrorists." The accusation triggers fits of indignation from the Left. The Washington Post and other major outlets assured voters "there is no evidence" to claim that El-Sayed supports groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

Need it be said, the president is prone to lots of hyperbole. But Trump didn't accuse El-Sayed of being a terrorist. He accused El-Sayed of siding with terrorists. I'm not sure how anyone can argue otherwise.

For one thing, we're in possession of a long list of pro-Hamas groups and individuals whose support El-Sayed openly welcomes, among them notorious anti-Americans imams, jihadists and 9/11 truthers.

There's a reason El-Sayed wouldn't condemn the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps when asked by a college student during a Michigan town hall not long ago. It is the same reason El-Sayed wouldn't speak out when we helped eliminate the nefarious Islamist dictator and American enemy Ali Khamenei.

It's not the candidate's fault that his father reportedly attended a "remembrance ceremony" for the ayatollah or that his mother-in-law and father-in-law reportedly raised money for "global terrorist" groups or that his Hamas-loving Marxist sister maintains his family has historical ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. But it is curious that he feels the need to lie about it.

At another town hall, a man named Tommy asked El-Sayed if he would "disavow" the Muslim Brotherhood. "Sure. Yeah, absolutely," the candidate answered dismissively before retorting, "Why are you asking the question?" and launching a prefabricated tirade about "Islamophobia."

Well, maybe Tommy was asking because El-Sayed signed an Arabic-language open letter published on an Egyptian site supporting "revolutionary decisions" of Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, imploring him to "purge the media and the police as quickly as possible," none of which sounds very progressive.

Maybe Tommy finds it odd that El-Sayed sends out social media posts commemorating the 9/11 terrorist attack, in which at least three of the hijackers were once affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, that are largely aimed at the alleged sins of the United States rather than Islamic murderers.

Today, El-Sayed's moderate act is undercut by his unrehearsed moments and associations, which include the Islamic Society of North America, a group with opaque funding sources that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood — his father-in-law served on the founding committee — and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose president was "happy" to see Hamas, also an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, deliberately and joyously murder over 1,000 civilians in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

El-Sayed allied with these groups long after they were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing case.

Understandably, affordability issues are almost surely at the top of mind for most Michigan voters — not that El-Sayed's hackneyed socialism will do anything to help them on that front. But do they really want to elect a senator who couldn't obtain a security clearance to work with classified documents?

El-Sayed has also declined to answer whether the Islamic mullahs of Iran who chant "Death to America" or Israel, a longtime ally whose population feels a kinship with our nation, are a greater threat to the U.S. Considering his past actions and comments, it's clear El-Sayed prefers the Islamic terrorist state over the liberal democracy.

Hatred of Jews is one of the defining characteristics of the Islamo-Marxist. We don't need to look further than El-Sayed's "hurt people hurt people" rationalization for a Hezbollah-inspired Islamist attempting to massacre a school filled with 140 American Jewish children in West Bloomfield, Michigan, to understand where his loyalty lies: the West Bank. El-Sayed's initial, unprocessed reaction, the truthful one, is so vile and un-American it would have been a career-ending event for any normal politician in any normal era.

"If you have folks who refuse to vote for somebody because of the direction in which they pray, it most certainly has an impact," Dearborn, Michigan, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud recently said regarding El-Sayed. Voting against any candidate solely based on the direction they pray is irrational, of course. Ignoring a candidate's ideological and theological predisposition toward illiberalism and extremism and his long history of associating with those who detest this country simply because he is Muslim is also irrational.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books — the most recent, "How To Kill a Republic," available now. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post and numerous other publications. Follow him on X @davidharsanyi.

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