CBS Star Forced Into Humiliating Apology for Wild Pro-MAGA Post

CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images CBS News’ chief legal correspondent has apologized after a late-night swipe at a Democratic Senate candidate crossed the network’s line.

Jan Crawford, 61, deleted the tweet targeting Abdul El-Sayed and acknowledged in a brief apology on X Sunday afternoon that her post violated CBS News’ standards.

“Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall.

I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards.

I apologize,” she wrote.

Reps for CBS did not immediately respond to request for comment.

While Crawford’s apology suggested she had simply shared a video, screenshots of her now-deleted post from early Sunday morning show that she congratulated a man named Tommy for questioning whether El-Sayed sympathized with the Muslim Brotherhood .

The Handbasket identified the questioner as Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Sen.

Josh Hawley and the son of Republican strategist Timmy Teepell.

During the exchange, Tommy identified himself as a Christian and asked El-Sayed: “I have one simple question for you.

Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?” “Sure, yeah, absolutely,” the Michigan Senate nominee said, before asking: “Why are you asking the question?” “Well, because they’re a terrorist group,” said Tommy, as El-Sayed questioned: “Okay.

No, but what are you implying? Do you assume that I wouldn’t?” Tommy admitted that he was under that assumption, reasoning: “Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.” “Have you disavowed them? I haven’t heard you disavow them yet,” El-Sayed batted back as others in the crowd laughed.

“I’m not running to be a Muslim senator.

I’m running for the U.S.