Hasan Piker no-shows pro-communist event over alleged safety fears while mocking Trump assassination attempt
Online influencer Hasan Piker mocked the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump during a livestream Tuesday night, even as he bailed on a panel hosted by a pro-communist nonprofit, with...
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Online influencer Hasan Piker mocked the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump during a livestream Tuesday night, even as he bailed on a panel hosted by a pro-communist nonprofit, with organizers citing safety reasons amid backlash to his rhetoric. Piker, a self-described Marxist and popular streamer on the Twitch platform, was slated to appear as the headliner at an event hosted by the People’s Forum in Manhattan, "Columbia & Palestine: A Test of Democracy — Featuring Hasan Piker & Guests," but he was a no-show. Instead, while the panel proceeded without him, he streamed his show live from New York City, which he called "Mamdanistan" for Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He spent much of the six hours reading aloud articles and X posts about himself, at turns giddy, and then complaining about the "threats," "disparagement campaigns" and "smears" he'd received for spewing rhetoric that critics say has stoked a culture of political violence. Last year, the far-left streamer drew public scrutiny when he called for the murder of Senator Rick Scott, R-Florida, as Republicans targeted Medicaid and Medicare fraud. He said, "If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott." A fellow panelist told attendees that Piker withdrew due to "the level of attacks and targeting that he has been going through from the right and the left and right," following backlash after "the situation" with the attempted assassination on Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. The episode highlights intensifying scrutiny of rhetoric by leftists like Piker, following the assassination attempt, as critics point to a pattern of inflammatory comments and question the influence of online personalities during a volatile political moment. On Tuesday, writer Peter Hamby at liberal Puck News even acknowledged, "There is a rising miasma of conspiratorial thinking, dangerous fact-denying, and dehumanizing language that has taken hold on the America…