Abdul El-Sayed is “full of hot air,” according to a former senior aide who has publicly criticized the Michigan Senate Democratic nominee.
Jordan Domingue, who worked on two of El-Sayed’s campaigns as his bodyguard and personal assistant, alleged that the candidate regularly passed gas in public and described him as a “manufactured man” with the maturity of a high school locker room.
“Everything I had previously ignored or excused made it obvious to who he was and that I was on the wrong side,” Domingue wrote in a Sept. 17 post on X.
As first reported by Gateway Pundit, Domingue said El-Sayed’s conduct was “best explained by the guy who never grew past the high school locker room.”
“His masculinity is a performance, and he has the maturity to match it,” Domingue wrote.
The former aide also alleged that one of El-Sayed’s favorite habits was passing gas openly in front of staff members.
“He would openly do so without warning or embarrassment as his form of stand-up comedy,” Domingue wrote.
“To this day for him, the act of farting is easily one of the funniest things a person can do.”
Domingue said his experience working on El-Sayed’s gubernatorial and Senate campaigns led him to view the candidate as a “30-year-old leapfrogging into a job he was inexperienced for and only got through connections.”
“Now I’m far from blameless, and will reflect for years how I let myself be captured by loyalty and personality,” Domingue wrote.
“When he acted like an entitled mobster to elected officials in 2017-2018, I excused it as justified outsider earning their place. When he would say one thing to one group and another thing to a different group hours later, I considered it just the norm or ‘strategic ambiguity’ as he calls it.”
Domingue has also accused El-Sayed of hypocrisy in his statements about antisemitism and the safety of Jewish Americans.
In a Sept. 9 post, Domingue criticized El-Sayed’s response to a researcher who announced her resignation from Anthropic, drawing a comparison to his own departure from the campaign.
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In that post, Domingue accused El-Sayed of failing to prioritize the safety of Jewish Americans.
“How we change the incentives leading antisemitism in the Democratic Party and protect Jewish Americans against these existential risks are the defining political questions of our time,” Domingue wrote.
El-Sayed has made Israel and the war in Gaza central to his political identity. Domingue is now urging the media to look beyond what he characterized as the candidate’s “tough guy act,” as well as his reluctance to discuss the Middle East during the final stretch before the midterms.
Domingue also criticized El-Sayed’s public image, including campaign videos that have attracted negative attention online.
After El-Sayed posted a campaign video of himself dancing to a Taylor Swift song last month, some social-media users questioned his masculinity. Domingue rejected speculation about El-Sayed’s sexuality, saying he considers claims that the candidate might be gay “inaccurate.”
Domingue further accused El-Sayed of overstating his professional experience.
“On the trail he likes to say he has ‘10 years of public service experience,’” Domingue wrote. “I knew that was a lie while working for him, but I was also surprised he would say it.”
“Not because it was a lie, but because 10 years of public service work experience at 41 was embarrassing to me,” he added.
The former aide has also questioned El-Sayed’s relationship with law enforcement.
In July, El-Sayed was endorsed by the Wayne County Deputy Sheriff’s Association. Domingue called the endorsement ironic, citing what he described as El-Sayed’s history of disrespect toward law enforcement.
For Domingue, that was further evidence of what he now calls a carefully constructed political persona.
“A manufactured man,” he said of his former boss.
El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment Sunday.
