Hasan Piker?

Never heard of him until this .  . .

Hasan Piker Detained By CBP While Reentering The U.S. From France

The popular progressive political streamer said he was asked leading questions about Donald Trump and Hamas, among other topics. 

 

Hasan Piker, an online streamer and political commentator, was detained for several hours by Customs and Border Protection officers over the weekend and asked leading questions about what he thought of President Donald Trump and Hezbollah, among other topics, he said.

 

Piker discussed the surprise detention in a Monday afternoon stream on Twitch, telling his nearly 3 million followers he was questioned at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago after returning from a trip to France.

 

“They literally, they tried to straight-up get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently,” he said.

 

“He kept asking over and over again, Hamas, Houthis, all this shit, trying to be like, ‘Oh, do you support them, do you like them? What do you think about them?’”

 

Piker conceded that he probably “yapped away” more than was in his own interest because he was hoping to cut the detention short, and also because he wanted to see what sort of information they were looking for.

 

“Instead of just pleading the Fifth as I’m supposed to do in situations like this, I just kept giving him answers,” he said.

 

“Knowing full well that they know exactly what they’re looking for, I saw no reason to hold back on certain things, so I said, ‘I don’t like Trump. What are you going to do? It’s protected by the First Amendment ... [Trump] said he was going to end the wars. He hasn’t ended the wars. What the f**k is up with that?’”

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hasan-piker-detained-customs-border-

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