Claim: U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee from Michigan, said he believes America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Rating: About this rating False Context There is no evidence El-Sayed said the U.S. deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. We could find no evidence El-Sayed said he believed the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks. Piker walked back his comment that "America deserved 9/11" shortly after he made it. To investigate the veracity of the rumor, we first searched the keywords "Abdul El-Sayed said America deserved 9/11" on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo.