Far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is suing conservative commentator Scott Jennings for defamation, saying the pundit wrongly accused him of advocating for lynching black people.
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pundit → sue → people
Piker is demanding $72.5 million in damages.
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Piker → demand → damages
His complaint filed Tuesday in Washington, DC, zeroes in on an August episode of “The Scott Jennings Show” in which the commenter aired allegedly manipulated video of Piker to depict him as a violent racist.
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commenter → file → racist
One example in the complaint centers on Piker saying on his own stream, “He said, ‘We need more Klansmen, OK?
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We → center → Klansmen
Can we go back to a better time when lynchings were happening?’”
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lynchings → go → time
Piker’s suit says he was talking about a debate between black political commenters and mocking a conservative as nostalgic for the pre-civil rights era — but Jennings allegedly distorted the quote to make it seem like Piker himself espoused pro-lynching views.
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Piker → say → views
“The words ‘He said,’ which identified the object of Mr. Piker’s ridicule, were omitted.
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which → say → ridicule
Mr. Piker’s laughter and subsequent explanation were also removed.
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laughter → remove → ?
The resulting video portrayed sarcastic criticism of another as though it were an expression of Mr. Piker’s own beliefs,” the suit states.
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suit → result → beliefs
Jennings declined to comment to The Post.
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Jennings → decline → Post
He’d shared the clip in the context of Piker’s support for fellow lefty Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Michigan.
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He → share → Michigan
“Abdul El-Sayed’s best pal and campaign partner says the USA should resume lynchings against black people,” Jennings said in a post on X promoting the clip.
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Jennings → say → clip
“Listen for yourself and understand what the socialists have in store for the black community.”
Piker claims that content was a supercut intended to make him look like a crazed bigot.
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him → listen → bigot
Quotes included Piker sarcastically saying “It’s because I’m racist” and “You got me because I’m a racist person” — all taken out of context, the lefty alleges.
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lefty → include → context
“Mr. Jennings did not merely mischaracterize something Mr. Piker said.
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Piker → mischaracterize → something
He took a false, fabricated, and manipulated video of Mr. Piker, added a made-up quotation that Mr. Piker never uttered, and then made accusations that went beyond even what the manipulated footage purported to show,” the filing states.
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filing → take → what
Piker’s suit says he asked for a retraction back in August, to no avail.
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he → say → avail
The commenter — a big fan of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, among other democratic socialists — is seeking $27.5 million in compensatory damages plus $45 million in punitive damages.
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commenter → seek → damages
“Scott Jennings accused Hasan Piker of calling for Black Americans to be lynched.
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Americans → accuse → Piker
Jennings took a manipulated video, put words in Hasan’s mouth that he never spoke, and then held those words up as proof of something Hasan never said or believed,” Piker’s lawyer Daniel Watkins told The Post in a statement.
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lawyer → take → statement
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Scott Jennings has every right to disagree with Hasan Piker.
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Jennings → have → Piker
He has no right to invent what Hasan said.
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Hasan → have → what
We brought this case because the truth matters, reputation matters, and there comes a point when lying must have consequences.”
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lying → bring → consequences
In the Piker stream in which “lynching” came up, he was commenting on conservative activist Xavier Durousseau, whose X bio states he is a member of the Republican National Committee’s Youth Council.
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he → come → Council
Durousseau argued “woke DAs” aren’t addressing crime the right way.
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DAs → argue → crime
Earlier in the hours-long stream, Piker called Durousseau a “grifter” and a “failed actor” after it was revealed that Durousseau used to be a Black Lives Matter activist.
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Durousseau → call → Durousseau
I might come near that line but I don’t cross that line so shut the f–k up,” Piker said on his stream, going on to say both major political parties are racist.
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parties → come → stream
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