Leftwing Streamer says US Border Agents Grilled Him on Trump and Gaza

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Social media influencer Hasan Piker, widely regarded as one of the biggest names in left-wing independent media, has long been critical of President Donald Trump and of the ongoing war in Gaza.

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Hasan Piker, a popular Turkish American online streamer, said he was stopped and questioned for hours about his political beliefs by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after flying back to the United States from overseas on Sunday.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) May 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM

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This is a US Citizen BTW.

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 05:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The Border Guards are Just Following Orders.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-12 05:41 PM | Reply

Fascism

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-12 05:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-12 05:55 PM | Reply

Republicans and Democrats under AIPAC's control and the Trumpf junta have criminalized Palestinians as an idea, a people, and a nation: drudge.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-12 06:32 PM | Reply

Detaining and questioning harshly a US citizen for questioning Trump and Israel should be headline news on the front page.

It should be bipartisan outrage.

But its not. It's just expected now.

#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 10:57 PM | Reply

De-legitimizing Palestinians is the new normal under the Trumpf junta. AIPAC and the MSM set the table for today's dystopia with their decades-long campaign of brain-washing Americans to hate Arabs with Islamophobic tropes and agitprop. This helped get Americans to re-invade Iraq in 2003. How many Arab or Muslim heroes do you see on American TV shows or Hollywood films? I can name one, but there may be a few others out of the thousands of productions.

This flag sells for $16.00 on Jeff Bezos' Amazon: m.media-amazon.com

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-12 11:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Moments later, Piker added that he was asked about the contents of the chat that accompanies his livestreams.

All of which is readily available online to peruse, parse and dissect.

Zionism isn't just a disease, it's their excuse to destroy our rights.

It would seem that whatever agency claims Hasan is a "terrorist" is an enemy of this nation.

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-13 01:38 PM | Reply

Whew that was close.

If he had one of them nasty tats we probably would have never heard from him again.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-13 04:55 PM | Reply

We are going to start doing this to all the Brown people.
To deter them from coming back.
--Republicans

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 07:37 PM | Reply