U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has condemned calls to release Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Mursi. 

Bachmann’s statement followed a visit made by U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain to Cairo where they called for the release of Mursi and other Muslim Brotherhood members.  

“What happened in Egypt was not a ‘coup’, but rather a recapture of the 2011 revolution,” the congresswoman said. 

“The Army did what it thought was necessary to defend the freedom of the Egyptian people.”

She expressed confidence that the senate would support Egypt’s democratic institutions and not the Muslim Brotherhood regime which she described as "Islamic Jihad."

“The true defenders of secular democracy in Egypt are the tens of millions who demonstrated in the streets in early July."