Socialist Hasan Piker is suing conservative counterpart for ‘violent racist’ portrayal

Socialist Hasan Piker is suing conservative counterpart for ‘violent racist’ portrayal

The $72. 5 m suit alleges Scott Jennings falsely told listeners Piker had a ‘plan of returning our country to lynchings’

The prominent socialist political commentator and influencer Hasan Piker is suing his conservative counterpart Scott Jennings for $72. 5 m over comments on a podcast that he said portrayed him as “a violent racist” who advocated the lynching of Black people.

Piker’s defamation lawsuit , filed Tuesday in US district court for the District of Columbia, states that Jennings misrepresented his comments in a podcast and subsequent social media post in August. Continue reading...

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