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Socialist Hasan Piker sues conservative counterpart for ‘violent racist’ portrayal
The $72.5m 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 $72.5m 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 on Tuesday in US district court for the District of Columbia, states that Jennings misre…
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