{"id":202857,"date":"2026-04-19T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:06:16","slug":"this-is-the-democrat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202857\/","title":{"rendered":"‘This is the Democrat Party’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Florida Sen. Rick Scott admonished Democrats for the vile rhetoric of left-wing livestreamer Hasan Piker<\/a>, who suggested the lawmaker needs to be killed.<\/p>\n

During a recent livestream, Piker declared<\/a> that \u201cif you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill\u00a0Rick\u00a0Scott.\u201d <\/p>\n

Scott (R-Fla.) has since pushed for Yale University to lose funding for allowing Piker to speak at an event.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wants me killed. He wants every capitalist murdered,\u201d Scott bemoaned matter-of-factly on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d \u201cHe said that we deserve 9\/11. He\u2019s clearly antisemitic. Democrats are campaigning with this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrat Party supports this stuff,\u201d he added. \u201cYale, if they want to go support somebody that wants to be a capitalist murdered in this country, right, so I don\u2019t want them to get any federal funding. I mean, it\u2019s pretty simple to me. They shouldn\u2019t be doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Rick Scott tore into Democrats over their association with Hasan Piker. FOX<\/p>\n

Scott also stressed that \u201cthese universities can do whatever they want,\u201d but they can\u2019t expect federal funding if \u201cthey want to support people that want to murder me and murder capitalists and are antisemitic and say that Americans deserve 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way my taxpayer money from Florida should be going to these places,\u201d he further argued.<\/p>\n

Prior to his rise to fame in politics, Scott made a fortune co-founding the Columbia Hospital Corporation. Under his watch, the company was fined $1.7 billion<\/a> and faced over a dozen convictions for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and other social benefits programs. <\/p>\n

Hasan Piker\u2019s growing involvement in Democratic primaries has roiled the party. AP<\/p>\n

At the time, it was described as the largest healthcare fraud case in the country. <\/p>\n

Publicly, Scott has denied knowledge of the fraud that took place during his tenure, but has taken responsibility for it, describing it as \u201chard lessons\u201d he learned.<\/p>\n

He had invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination numerous times during a deposition in the matter. <\/p>\n

The feds never charged Scott with criminal wrongdoing. Ultimately, after getting pressured to step down by the board, Scott got stock options of over $300 million and a $10 million severance package.<\/p>\n

Hasan Piker has millions of followers on his social media platforms. AP<\/p>\n

Scott is the second-wealthiest member of the Senate, after Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV), with a fortune of over half a billion dollars, according to Quiver Quantitative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Piker, a nephew of \u201cYoung Turks\u201d Cenk Uygur, is infamous for his incendiary and, at times, cruel rhetoric. <\/p>\n

In a 2019 stream, Piker declared that \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11\u2033 and later said that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack was a \u201cdirect consequence\u201d of Israeli actions, adding that if the terror group engaged in rape, it \u201cdoesn\u2019t change the dynamic for me.\u201d <\/p>\n

Piker has also defended the US-designated terrorist group Hezbollah<\/a> and the use of the slur \u201ccracker.\u201d<\/a> He also despicably gushed over the \u201cbrave mujahideen\u201d for injuring Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas).<\/p>\n

Eventually, he conceded<\/a> that some of those remarks were wrong. <\/p>\n

Democrats have been divided over how to deal with Piker, given his clout within the progressive movement and concerns about cancel culture. <\/p>\n

Recently, Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed campaigned with him, and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) argued that pols who don\u2019t engage<\/a> with people like Piker \u201cwill cost us future elections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Florida Sen. Rick Scott admonished Democrats for the vile rhetoric of left-wing livestreamer Hasan Piker, who suggested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2132,7050,2517,9,11,10,87,12515,31803,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-202857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-democrats","9":"tag-medicaid","10":"tag-medicare","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-rick-scott","16":"tag-the-left","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}