CNN's biggest embarrassment and one of Donald Trump's top press secretary contenders, Scott Jennings, just found himself in serious hot water after he was caught using blatantly deceptive edited video footage to lodge disgusting and categorically untrue claims of racism against wildly popular left-wing streamer Hasan Piker.
During a recent airing of his nationally syndicated radio show, Jennings aired a compilation of clips from Piker's Twitch stream -- where he boasts upwards of 3 million followers and streams for up to eight hours a day on the livestreaming platform that's exponentially grown in popularity with the younger generations in recent years -- in a segment he dubbed an "exploration of the radical socialist streamer."
After allowing the spliced-together montage of Piker clips to run uninterrupted, undoubtedly to add an air of dramatic effect to the bullshit story he was about to weave, Jennings forcefully declared: "Now [Abdul] El-Sayed’s best friend is out there calling for Black voters to be lynched," referencing Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee.
"Beneath all the smiles and dancing videos, there’s nothing but hate and violence in the heart of these communists."
The regular CNN commentator doubled down even harder when he took to social media with the clip on his radio show's account, writing, "Here [sic] him in his OWN WORDS."
.@relieffactor Pain of the Week is a NO BRAINER - Hasan Piker is a true pain for the Democratic Party’s chances in November.
Here him in his OWN WORDS. pic.twitter.com/vTVeziSiZH— Scott Jennings Show (@JenningsShow) August 14, 2026
This is far from the first time Jennings has slapped a target on the Twitch streamer's back, taking to social media just a few days ago with a clip that appeared to show Piker stating, "I don’t give a f--- what Black people care about," and making mention of going "back to a better time when lynchings were happening."
Abdul El-Sayed’s best pal and campaign partner says the USA should resume lynchings against black people.
Listen for yourself and understand what the socialists have in store for the black community pic.twitter.com/N3ntbIHefw— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 12, 2026
Taken at face value, it's enough to make your skin crawl and your stomach sick, and every single last word and syllable of it is complete and utter bullshit.
While Jennings is correct in that they are all, technically, Piker's "own words," that is where the truth comes to an abrupt end.
Snopes launched an investigation into Jennings' claims and found that Piker's words and statements had been so heavily and deceptively edited, cut, switched, and swapped around, and spliced back together, that not a single word concerning the basis of the CNN commentator's claims bore an ounce of truth or even reality.
The infamous fact-checkers found that Jennings' video, which featured Piker appearing to make sickening and derogatory remarks about Black people and claiming that he longs for a return to a time of lynchings in America, is, in fact, "heavily edited and presents Piker’s spoken words without full context, and in some cases out of order."
"As such, it is misleading."
Snopes quickly determined that the various fragments of Piker's words had been "stitched together out of context and out of order to twist their original import."
"A full review of Piker’s unedited remarks confirms Jennings falsely claimed Piker said he was in favor of bringing back lynchings. In the original stream, Piker’s remarks on lynchings were sarcastic reactions to a user’s chat comment and opinions expressed by someone else in a separate video."
Even Elon Musk's Grok knew that it was complete and utter bull:
Yes. The full clip shows Hasan calling the "return to better times" idea a stupid stance specifically because those eras included lynchings. He was mocking nostalgia for the past, not advocating for resuming them. Jennings frames the isolated line as a call to resume lynchings…
— Grok (@grok) August 12, 2026
Now, Jennings is staring down the barrel of a whole lot of legal trouble, as Status reports that the famous Twitch streamer is planning legal action over Jennings' openly defamatory actions, stating that the legal filing "seems unavoidable."
Piker told the publication, "This kind of defamation is completely unacceptable. It’s exactly how normal people perceive mainstream media to operate, and it’s a real crisis of credibility. I think someone has to push back against it at some point."
Piker noted that it's becoming increasingly common for small clips of his lengthy Twitch streams to be cut and spliced in a "deceptive" manner, deliberately stripped of their intended meaning and original context by Right-wingers.
Earlier this month, he told Rolling Stone, "I stream for eight hours a day, seven days a week. I’m gonna say some dumb s--t. But at the end of the day, we’re talking about more than 10,000 hours of content, and they’ve got like four quotes they keep hammering on to be like, ‘This guy’s a dangerous radical.’ It’s very silly."
He went on to tell Status that he's had no choice but to cut back his public appearances and tighten up his security measures as he is "getting inundated with death threats, so much more than ever before. It’s nothing I haven’t grown accustomed to."
The worst part of it all is the fact that this will almost assuredly catapult Jennings to the top of Donald Trump's list.
