Scott Jennings & Harris Faulkner Hit Legal Trouble Over False Racism Claims

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According to Status, [Hasan] Piker and his legal team are preparing a defamation suit against [Scott] Jennings and Salem Media, the company behind the conservative commentator’s nationally syndicated radio show. The lawsuit could also include Fox News, where Faulkner cited the same misleading compilation on air.

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Last Tuesday (August 11), Jennings played the spliced-together clips on his radio show, saying, “Now [Abdul] El-Sayed’s [Michigan Democratic Senate nominee] best friend is out there calling for Black voters to be lynched.”

The video includes a clip of Piker saying, “I don’t give a f*** what Black people care about” and mentioning going “back to a better time when lynchings were happening.”

However, an investigation by Snopes found that the video is misleading, explaining that it is “heavily edited and presents Piker’s spoken words without full context, and in some cases 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,” Snopes added. “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.”

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Piker told Status that the lawsuit “seems unavoidable,” saying, “I think someone has to push back against it at some point.” He also referred to Jennings as a “liar” and a “hatchet man” who is angling for a future role in the Trump administration or GOP. Jennings has recently been linked to the White House press secretary position.

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