O’keefe Media Group went undercover inside Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign, capturing conversations with Abdoul Beckwith, a regional field organizer for Abdul for Senate, discussing El-Sayed’s overseas campaign contributions, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Beckwith claimed El-Sayed receives donations from overseas, “You know, he [Abdul El Sayed] has people from overseas that donate to him.” When asked whether overseas donations were prohibited, Beckwith responded, “No it is not allowed,” before describing a hypothetical arrangement in which overseas money passes through a family member.
Beckwith said, “And then people overseas give money to him. And then he gives money to you. It’s that type of thing.” He added, “Everybody does it!”
Under 52 U.S.C. § 30121, foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to federal campaigns. However, U.S. citizens living abroad and lawful permanent residents may legally contribute.
During a car ride with our OMG undercover journalist, Beckwith suggested El-Sayed could lose support if he openly rejected Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, “He [Abdul El Sayed] can’t just say, you know, no, I don’t support Hamas, you know, I reject all of them, because he’s going to lose the people that brought him up in the first place.” Beckwith continued, “He [El-Sayed] has to play the game. He has to play the role.”
When questioned about the Muslim Brotherhood, Beckwith claimed denouncing the organization could alienate Muslim supporters, stating: “So that’s the whole thing. So when Abdul is going to denounce that [Muslim Brotherhood], they’re [Muslims] going to think that he is siding with the genociders.”
Beckwith also expressed concerns about the influence of white and Jewish individuals surrounding El-Sayed. Mentioned El-Sayed could adopt their “mannerisms.”
Beckwith: “There’s a lot of white people around him [El-Sayed]. A lot of Jewish people around him. And when you’re around a certain group of people for so long, you absorb the ideology, the mannerisms, everything like that.”
He warned, “They’re [Whites & Jews] going to hijack him and then in a year he’s going to be doing what they want with him.” When asked whether El-Sayed might abandon his promises, Beckwith responded, “I think, yeah.”
Beckwith also made an allegation about Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson and stated “But I know Jocelyn works for the KKK.” He repeated, “She works for the KKK. For the Ku Klux Klan.”
In an unexpected moment, Beckwith recalled what he described as a previous encounter with Project Veritas during the 2020 Georgia Senate runoff campaign. “He had a backpack, but on his backpack, you could see a camera lens. You could see the red light of the camera lens.” Six years later, Beckwith was telling that story to another O’Keefe undercover journalist.
OMG has contacted Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign for comment and also contacted Bob Hobert, identified as an official with One Team Michigan whose role is to elect Abdul El-Sayed. We are now aware from the Michigan Democratic Party that Abdoul Beckwith has been terminated from his position.
These statements were captured on hidden camera by an OMG journalist inside the U.S. Senate campaign for Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit, Michigan.
