'In the now-viral video, we see a young white man in a gray long-sleeve shirt standing up in a crowd and shouting a question: "Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?" He aimed his question at Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a town hall event in Caro, Michigan, on Saturday. From the stage, El-Sayed met it with steely resolve. "Why are you asking the question?" he replied. "What are you implying?"' But all was not as it seemed. Tommy was a plant.

Marisa Kabas: 'The Handbasket is first to report that Tommy is Thomas Teepell, who, according to his X and Facebook profiles, currently lives in Detroit. Teepell served as Operations Director for Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley until February of this year, according to Legistorm. [...] Tommy's father is Timmy Teepell, a Republican strategist who worked for congressman and then Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal from 2004 to 2011; he also ran Jindal's ill-fated presidential primary campaign in 2015. [...] What brought the younger Teepell to the small town of Caro and his viral moment with El-Sayed? An October 2nd story in the University of Michigan student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, revealed that a conservative PAC called America Next offered College Republicans $200 to travel to an upcoming El-Sayed town hall in Flint to "boo" him and ask him inflammatory questions—hoping to spark embarrassing viral moments for the candidate.'