Undercover Video Throws El-Sayed's Senate Campaign Into Chaos

Authored by Matt Margolis via PJ Media,

Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign is in full-blown panic mode after an undercover O'Keefe Media Group video caught one of its field organizers claiming the candidate takes overseas donations.

The video dropped on Monday. By the end of the day, the Michigan Democrat Party had confirmed that the organizer who spilled the beans about the campaign's illegal donations, Abdoul Beckwith, has been fired. No investigation, no review, no waiting to see how the story played out. Party officials cut him loose almost immediately, and the El-Sayed campaign rushed out a statement calling his comments "untrue," "wildly misinformed," and "not reflective of the campaign" while insisting it fully complies with Federal Election Commission rules.

Right. Sure. They would say that, wouldn't they?

So, what did Beckwith say?

Talking with an undercover journalist who posed as a volunteer at the campaign's Detroit operation, he dropped a true bombshell. El-Sayed "has people from overseas that donate to him," Beckwith said. Asked whether that was allowed, he acknowledged it wasn't.

He then described how the money supposedly moves, with family members or other intermediaries acting as conduits. "Everybody does it," Be