Hasan Piker is one of many controversial figures the Democrat has courted
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, is tired of being asked about a random “streamer in California.” That’s not what his campaign is about, you see.
But the questions about Hasan Piker keep coming.
It might have something to do with the fact that Piker isn’t just some random “social media person” from Los Angeles. El-Sayed didn’t happen to cross paths with him in Dearborn at a memorial gathering for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Piker, who is best known for hating America, loving communism, and celebrating terrorism, has been perfectly clear. El-Sayed reached out and asked him to come to Michigan and campaign with him during the Democratic primary. “Abdul asked me to go,” he said in March.
They campaigned together. They got their pump on at the gym, then admired each other’s beefed-up physiques at a pre-election pool party in Detroit. On the night of the primary, Piker worked the crowd alongside Husham al-Husainy, a local imam who supports Hezbollah and opposes gay marriage. Al-Husainy told the Washington Free Beacon that Khamenei’s death was a tragedy, and suggested that JFK and Malcolm X were killed by the same “money people” from a “special faith.”
El-Sayed declared victory and urged Democrats to unite. Piker gloated and scoffed at the idea of making amends with the “unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of shit” who supported El-Sayed’s opponent, congresswoman Haley Stevens.
Of course El-Sayed doesn’t want to talk about Piker, who once said that “America deserved 9/11” and “fucking totally brought it on ourselves, dude.” The fact that journalists keep asking is surprisingly out of character for the media, who are predisposed to follow orders from Democrats.
But Piker is hardly the only controversial figure El-Sayed has been eager to associate with since launching his campaign. Perhaps the journalists could ask the Democrat about some of those lunatics as well.
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