This is the type of video Abdul El-Sayed won't like to see.
Jordan Domingue is a Marine combat veteran. He was El-Sayed's personal assistant and executive protection lead on two campaigns — the 2018 run for governor and this Senate run. He moved to Michigan twice for the man, left jobs abroad, took pay cuts of about $50,000. He drove El-Sayed's wife to the hospital when she was pregnant. The youngest daughter called him Mr. Jorjan. He resigned in January, and turned down a letter of recommendation and other help on the way out.
And now he's talking.
Domingue says El-Sayed's foreign policy was driven by what looked like misplaced revenge — that once he realized El-Sayed didn't actually care about civilians and peace, everything he had ignored or excused made it obvious who the man was, and that he was on the wrong side. He calls him a manufactured man: the campaign video of El-Sayed pulling a kit out of the trunk is "him pretending" — cartoonishly fake masculinity. Most of those tough-guy stories are new, he says, and consultant-crafted. He wasn't like that in 2017 and 2018.
On the trail, El-Sayed says he has 10 years of public service. Domingue says he knew that was a lie while he was still working for him. After a clip of El-Sayed asking if police really need guns, Domingue pointed out he protected this man with a gun for two years, six or seven days a week, 12 to 16 hour days. Like so many things with Abdul, he said, it is pure hypocrisy.
On staff, he says El-Sayed grinds people down for all they have, and that his management pushed multiple staff to tears.
And on the left, Domingue says El-Sayed is not a socialist at all. He got close to that movement after losing in 2018 because they are an election mule — a way to look good to young voters and rise the way AOC did. He says he heard El-Sayed mock people in that orbit in private.
That is his own bodyguard. The man at his shoulder.