Cory Booker
Role at the time: United States senator from New Jersey
Condemned
Statement summary
Booker characterized Piker's language as dangerous and hateful and said it had no place in public discourse.
“Hasan Piker's dangerous and hateful language targeting Jewish Americans has no place in our civic discourse.”
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Reporting that quotes public reactions to Hasan Piker's August 20 livestream, including statements by Democratic officeholders, Jeremy Moss, and Abdul El-Sayed.
Why we used this label
Booker explicitly characterizes Piker's language as dangerous and hateful.