HasanAbi and Scott Jennings are at the centre of a growing controversy after the Twitch streamer said he is taking legal action against the CNN panelist. The dispute began after Scott Jennings shared old clips from HasanAbi’s livestreams and accused him of saying, “USA should resume lynchings against Black people.” HasanAbi rejected that reading of the clips and said Jennings turned comments he was responding to into a position he does not hold. On August 13, HasanAbi said he was “working through litigation” and called Jennings’ post an “egregious” example of defamation. As of August 14, Jennings had not publicly responded to the legal-action claim.
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Scott Jennings shares HasanAbi clips and makes lynching claim
On August 11, Scott Jennings posted on X about HasanAbi and shared a two-minute-14-second video from “The Scott Jennings Show” on CNN. The video included older clips from HasanAbi’s Twitch streams.
Jennings introduced HasanAbi as a “radical socialist streamer” while discussing his political links to Abdul El-Sayed. He then played clips in which HasanAbi used offensive language while discussing Black voters and a comment about lynching.
