Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker started the platform after viral comment “Kill Rick Scott”

The popular left -wing political streamer Hasan Piker was launched on Monday by Twitch, days after they said that Republicans would “kill” Senator Rick Scott if they took care of government waste.

“If you take care of Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, would you kill Rick Scott, okay?” Piker said on February 28th.

Piker, who has 2.8 million subscribers to Twitch and another 1.5 million on YouTube, where his account is still active, made the comment when he commented on a clip by the House spokesman Mike Johnson, who spoke to Kaitlan Collins of CNN.

It is unclear how long pikers are suspended from twitching. Visitors to his site are welcomed with a message that says that the account is temporarily not available due to a violation of Twitch's common guidelines or terms of use “.

Representatives of Piker and Twitch did not immediately respond to Thewrap's request for comment.

“The reason why I say that if you are interested in Medicare or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott -and not make him an outstanding part of the Republican Party -is that he is still called the greatest Medicare fraud in US history,” added Piker a moment later.

Piker referred to Columbia/HCA, the health company Scott, which was finished in the 1990s with a fine of 1.7 billion US dollars for narcotics such as Medicaid and Medicare.

Last year Scott said that, like President Donald Trump, he had become the victim of “political persecution” on this matter.

“By the way, I saw that. It happened to me, ”said Scott. “I fought Hillarycare and advise what happened when I fought Hillarycare? Justice complied with me and attacked me and my society. “

On Monday, Piker replied to the suspension to X and said that the next time he would ask for “maximum punishment” for Scott.

Piker was recently profiled by Slate, who described him as a “pro-Palestinian liberation, pro-immigrant, pro-trans-trans-tans, pro-choice and unexcused himself. Some of them have caused accusations of anti -Semitism and much more, which he emphasizes all of them, but has recently found pikes in an unusually defensive attitude. “

After the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, he criticized Israel and called it a country based on an “ethnonationalist, supremacist ideology”. Piker recently also contributed to collecting more than $ 100,000 for a fundraising campaign that is connected to the Oscar winner “No Other Land”, who stated that Gazaners provide food.

This was not the first time that pikers were in hot water for what he said during streaming. Especially in 2019 he was criticized for saying: “America deserves 9/11, age. F – it says it. “

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