Mayor Of First U.S. City With All-Muslim City Council Endorses Trump

Amer Ghalib, the mayor of a Michigan city that became the first in the U.S. to elect an all-Muslim city council, endorsed former President Donald Trump on Sunday, calling him the “right choice for this critical time.”

“President Trump and I may not agree on everything, but I know he is a man of principles,” Ghalib, the Democratic mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, wrote in a post on Facebook. “Though it’s looking good, he may or may not win the election and be the 47th president of the United States, but I believe he is the right choice for this critical time.”

“I’ll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I’m ready to face the consequences.”

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Hamtramck, a city of 28,000 people surrounded by Detroit, became the first city in the country with a Muslim-majority city council in 2015. Voters elected an