Joe.My.God. — LGBTQ+ — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:30:15 +0000
Summary
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers sent a fundraising email suggesting he played an active role in the killing of Osama bin Laden, stating in bold type that he "saw the dead body of Osama bin Laden with my own eyes." According to The Guardian, Rogers was not present in Abbottabad, Pakistan, during the May 1, 2011 raid, nor was he in the White House Situation Room where President Obama and senior officials monitored the operation. Rogers was at his home in Washington, DC, at the time, where he learned of the raid via a phone call from CIA Director Leon Panetta in his capacity as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Bin Laden's body was taken aboard a US warship and buried at sea, in part because no country would accept his remains and to prevent his grave from becoming a shrine.
The Guardian reports:
In a recent fundraising email, the Republican candidate for Michigan’s open US Senate seat, former congressman Mike Rogers, appeared to mislead supporters about his past by suggesting that he had played an active role in the killing of Osama bin Laden. He then added, in a section of the email highlighted in bold type: “I saw the dead body of Osama bin Laden with my own eyes, knowing that together, we had delivered justice for America.”
Rogers, however, was not in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on 1 May 2011, when Bin Laden was shot and killed – nor was he in the White House Situation Room, where then president Barack Obama and senior administration officials at the time, including Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, followed the raid in real time.
Instead, as Rogers told reporters the next day, and recounts in a campaign video, he was at home in Washington DC – where, as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee at the time, he was informed about the raid in a phone call from Obama’s CIA director, Leon Panetta.
Read the full article. After he was killed, Bin Laden’s body was taken aboard a US warship and disposed of in the ocean because no country would accept his remains. The US also wanted to prevent his grave from becoming a shrine.
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not #TheGuardian
— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) August 29, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Original article: https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/senate-nominee-mike-rogers-i-helped-kill-osama-bin-laden-and-saw-his-dead-body-with-my-own-eyes/ Source: Joe.My.God.