Streamer who said Rick Scott should be ‘killed’ invited to Yale as lawmaker demands funding cut
A Senate Republican wants federal funding revoked from Yale for a forthcoming speech from a controversial streamer who once called for him to be "killed."Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., blasted an...
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A Senate Republican wants federal funding revoked from Yale for a forthcoming speech from a controversial streamer who once called for him to be "killed." Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., blasted an upcoming event at the Ivy League university featuring Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker, who has become a flashpoint for Democrats and fodder for conservatives because of his views and alignment with the far-left of the party. Piker, who has come under fire for his previous comments that "America deserved 9/11" and for excusing sexual violence committed on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israel, is set to appear at the Yale Political Union for an event dubbed "Resolved: End the American Empire" Tuesday. SENATE GOP VOWS TO ‘GO IT ALONE’ ON ICE FUNDING AS DEMS DOUBLE DOWN ON SHUTDOWN "This is WILD," Scott said on X. "I spoke at the Yale Political Union last year on why we need to buy made in America products. Now, they are hosting a guy who said I should be killed." "Yale receives billions from the federal government — President Trump and Congress need to IMMEDIATELY revoke it," he continued. "An elite private university that hosts an antisemite who says a Senator should be killed, capitalists should be killed, and the U.S. deserved 9/11, shouldn’t get ONE CENT from taxpayers." The Yale Political Union did not respond to a request for comment on Scott's push to nix funding for the university. Scott and Piker have had a run-in, indirectly, before. MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT DEFENDS APPEARING WITH HASAN PIKER, DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM PODCASTER'S CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS When Republicans were crafting President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" in 2025, Piker said during a stream — in reaction to comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that Republicans were targeting Medicaid fraud — that Scott should be killed. "The reason why I'm saying, if you cared about Medicare or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott is because — and not make…