According to the New York Post, it appears that Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat U.S. Senate candidate for Michigan, will not be distancing himself from Piker, despite mounting fear from the state's Jewish community.
Piker, a native of New Brunswick, New Jersey of Turkish descent, is a multimillionaire who hates the U.S. and is virulently antisemitic. He is known for claiming the U.S. deserved 9-11 and saying that it "doesn't matter if rapes happened on Oct. 7," referring to the Hamas terror attack against Israel that killed more than 1,200 people.
The foul-mouth socialist streamer has dressed up in the uniform of Communist China's founder Mao Tse Tung, reported Fox News. He wore this while speaking in front of the 2026 College Democrats of America, where his speech was described as “Hitler styled.”
Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, thinks that Piker is a traitor and that he should be prosecuted as such.
"U.S. treason laws have been kind of notoriously lax, but now we are facing a treasonous movement on a large scale that really does want to change the government of the United States, destroy the free republic and replace it with an Islamic authoritarian state and/or a Marxist authoritarian state," Spencer says.
Robert Knight, columnist for the Washington Times, says the First Amendment protects even people calling for terrible things like violence.
"Unless you can prove that what they said directly is linked to an act of violence, they can say anything they want. And so, Mr. Piker is talking about killing landlords who won't lease a vacant property, soaking their red capitalist blood,” Knight explains. “He is full of fiery rhetoric, and the way the law has evolved over the years, I don't see a path toward Department of Justice prosecution of him for anything he says.”
If Piker does something or gets someone else to do something, Knight says then they might have a case.
