A Republican candidate for statewide office posted a fake video on social media of a U.S. Senate hopeful over the weekend, purporting to show Democrat Abdul El-Sayed setting fire to a chair in the ornate lobby of the Guardian Building in downtown Detroit.

Kevin Kijewski, a Birmingham attorney running for the GOP nomination for attorney general, later defended the post on social media, claiming that it was satire and "obvious fiction" and mocking a reporter who sought to confirm its authenticity.

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