Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-elect from Michigan who ran on a progressive platform with Medicare for All at its center, said Friday that he doesn't care what the policy is called as long as it passes, even during President Donald Trump's lame-duck term, which begins in January. Appearing on Zeteo with editor-in-chief Mehdi…
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Someone scrubbed El-Sayed's Wikipedia controversies days before he offered Trump the naming rights to Medicare for All
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The document today is an edit history, which is the most honest kind of document there is. It timestamps everybody.
The New York Post reported Friday that Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed's Wikipedia page was whitewashed of controversies before the election, according to sources, by an editor who goes by CopyleftEverything — an account the Post says is also responsible for dozens of other edits to pages on the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the American Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communists of America. All together now: open the contributions tab and scroll. The Post does not say which controversies left the page, and I am not going to itemize a list the paper never printed.…
…(cont) What I can give you is the public record of those same weeks, none of which was anonymous. On October 22, Democracy Now! took up AIPAC's role in the race between El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers. On October 28, Sen. Ted Cruz said that if El-Sayed becomes Michigan's senator there is nothing to stop Chuck Schumer from placing him on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and that Americans could die — denounced that week as straight-up incitement. On November 3, El-Sayed closed his campaign in a Fox News op-ed about his stops in rural counties that usually vote Republican: no Michigander deserves to be left behind. On November 4 he beat Rogers, becoming the first Muslim US senator in a decisive Democratic majority.
The week was not short of material. Somebody with a keyboard, a handle and no name decided the encyclopedia wanted a cleaner version of it anyway.
Then Friday, page tidy and race called, the senator-elect did his own editing out loud, on camera. Mehdi Hasan asked him on Zeteo whether he agreed with Sen. Bernie Sanders, who the night before said he wasn't so sure Trump wouldn't sign a Medicare for All bill passed by Democratic majorities in both chambers. El-Sayed: "If he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-All, I'm ok with it. He seems to like to put his name on things."
All together now — clause by clause. Clause one: the policy passes. Clause two: the other guy gets the marquee. Hasan asks whether he'll offer the name so everyone gets healthcare. "Yeah," El-Sayed says, and then, to the camera: "Donald, if you're watching, we'll put your—" The wire copy stops there, mid-offer, which is the second truncated document in this column.
Trump's lame-duck term begins in January. One man spent Friday volunteering, by name, to hand the president a title page. The only part of this story anyone did anonymously was the cleanup. Wikipedia keeps every revision, so the tidying is now a permanent line on the page it tidied.
“Think about who needs a clean page here — not the guy who went on Fox News to ask rural Michigan for a vote, and not the guy who said out loud on camera he'll let Trump stamp his name on the bill if the bill passes. The one hand in this whole business that wouldn't sign its work is the hand that volunteered to help. Cruz stood up and said Americans could die if this man wins; that's on the record with a name on it, and some anonymous volunteer thought the encyclopedia was the problem.”
“Look, the Post found it, we didn't, and nobody here is saying the senator-elect touched a keyboard — did I say that? That doesn't sound like me. The point, which people keep missing, is that the page needed cleaning at all, and then two days later he's offering to call his own plan Trumpcare, which tells you the whole platform was branding. I'm not criticizing. I'd take the deal. I'm not saying I'd take the deal.”
The receipts
The editor — who goes by “CopyleftEverything” — is also responsible for dozens of other edits to pages on the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the American Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communists of America.
Democrats are running an average of 11.5 points ahead of their 2024 baseline across 2026 special elections MultiState Elections, 2026 special-election tracking
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· Latest Ted Cruz Attack on Abdul El-Sayed Denounced as 'Straight-Up Incitement' from the morgue, 28 Oct 2026
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