A charity worker who was held captive in Egypt until President Trump’s assistance announced her support for Joe Biden's bid for the White House.
“Trump leaned in & said, 'you know it's I who released you, don't you? I succeeded & Obama failed' in the most vulnerable moment of my life, 48 hrs after releasing me from prison. It was never about me like it was never about us. It's about his ego. We deserve better #VoteBiden,” Aya Hijazi tweeted Monday, accompanied by a photo of the two after her release in 2017.
I felt torn after the meeting worried about not being a loyal person as Trump demands loyalty as a means of maintaining control. But the government should not help citizens to make them loyal; it should do help b/c its the right thing to do #VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica
— Aya Hijazi آية حجازي (@_AyaHijazi_) November 2, 2020
“I felt torn after the meeting worried about not being a loyal person as Trump demands loyalty as a means of maintaining control. But the government should not help citizens to make them loyal; it should do help b/c its the right thing to do #VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica,” she added.
Hijazi, who is Egyptian American, was held captive in Cairo from May 2014 until April 2017 after she founded the Belady Foundation in Egypt, an organization that assists marginalized street children.
Former President Barack Obama had attempted to get her released but was unsuccessful. Trump was able to secure her release following months of backroom negotiations with the Egyptian government, according to the Washington Post.
"We are very happy to have Aya back home," Trump said when she was released. "It's a great honor to have her in the Oval Office with her brother."
Hijazi previously voiced her support for Sen. Bernie Sanders in his bid for the White House earlier in the election cycle.
“Sanders has demonstrated that it is not just people like me — brown, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, children of single mothers — who struggle. He has revealed that the average Joes and Janes have become marginalized. Yet, we the marginalized, not finding the space to discuss financial struggle in a society that that exhibits itself as wealthy with plenitude, found only ourselves to blame,” she wrote in an opinion piece in March.
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