Dem Senate candidate El-Sayed defends ties to hate streamer Hasan Piker, hints at big tax increase for middle class

Dem Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday refused to break ties to notorious hate streamer Hasan Piker — while hinting he wants to sock the middle class with the bill for his Medicare for All plan.El-Sayed even left the door open to continuing to campaign with Piker in the pol’s general election matchup against Republican Mike Rogers — despite arguing that the notorious Twitch streamer’s 2019 comment, “America deserved 9/11” was dumb.“It was a dumb statement,” El-Sayed told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He disavowed it.So yes.

America didn’t deserve 9/11.“But to sit here and play gotcha politics with a dumb thing somebody said out of context — I want to be held accountable for what I say and what I do rather than this idea that we’re so stuck in cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020,” the radical candidate said.

“But we seem to want to bring back.”Piker very begrudgingly suggested that his comment was “inappropriate” shortly after his screed against the US in 2019, But he was later seen with a framed copy of a front-page newspaper story showing the Twin Towers in the aftermath of the Sept.11, 2001, attack.

More than 2,750 people, most Americans, died in New York City alone on the infamous day.Piker has also sparked controversy for claiming that the Oct.7, 2023, Hamas attack was a “direct consequence” of Israeli actions and asserting that if the terror group engaged in rape, it “doesn’t change the dynamic for me.”At one point, he fawned over the “brave mujahideen” who injured Rep.

Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and later suggested Sen.Rick Scott (R-Fla.) should be murdered.

The Mao Zedong-loving streamer also took heat for appearing to use a shock collar on his dog during one of his streams.El-Sayed stumped with Piker throughout his bruising primary race, which Rogers has since used as fodder for attack ads, tying him to the lefty streamer’s suggestion that the US deserved the Sep...