3 days before WHCD attack on Trump, NYT celebrated far-leftist Hasan Piker who called for 'capitalist blood' to be spilled

Far-left progressive podcaster Hasan Piker, who has called for "capitalist blood" to flow in the streets, said that "someone has to do it," was the subject of a glowing interview in The New York Times just days ahead of the latest assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. This is the third assassination attempt on Trump's life.

Cole Allen, a teacher from California, was arrested at the White House Correspondents Dinner for storming past the security checkpoint with multiple firearms and knives. He reportedly told police that he was targeting the Trump administration. The President and First Lady were swiftly evacuated, but a Secret Service agent was shot. Allen was taken to a local hospital and will be charged.

On a podcast, Piker was asked about landlords that don't rent their properties. "My understanding," said a caller, "is that the property owners, who have property there, choose not to rent it at all."

"Yeah," Piker shouted, "kill them. Kill those mother f*ckers. Murder those mother f*ckers in the street. Let the streets—let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood, dude." Piker has since said that this video was not meant to be taken seriously.

In another clip, Piker is seen advocating for "someone" to take aim at the president. Speaking to reporter Taylor Lorenz, Piker said "And you actually wrote about this, and it was a great video, where you talked about y'know, 'someone has to do it.'" The crowd laughed and hollered. "See, when I say that," he went on, "everyone knows exactly what I mean. I think that shows that there's a lot of anger, a lot of resentment, and untapped revolutionary potential as a matter of fact, and it's a great opportunity for organizing in these unprecedented times."

In the interview with The New York Times, Piker said violence is justified in a Marxist framework. "The action itself, no matter how violent or how disruptive, is justifiable because the disruption is the point," he said. "I believe in the power of organized labor and labor militancy, and building these structures of power so that we can actually make more effective change, more longstanding change."

Piker called for "piracy," meaning theft of everything from motor vehicles to music to robbing museums of priceless artwork to bank robberies to stealing groceries from Whole Foods.

He justified the cold-blooded killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying that Thompson was already engaging in "social murder" as the head of that company, meaning that violence against him was acceptable. The concept of "social murder" is a Marxist concept saying that poverty is violence, thereby justifying violence against the wealthy or upper middle class.

"And Brian Thompson," Piker said, "as the United Healthcare C.E.O., was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder. The systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care in this country — and the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths." Piker and his interviewers were disappointed that Thompson's death did not spark a backlash against health insurance in the US.

For Piker, violence is "just another byproduct of American existence." He said "I do think we are a profoundly violent culture. In some ways, Charlie Kirk’s assassination was not unique. School shootings are happening all the time, and we have actually decided, almost collectively, that it’s just another byproduct of American existence."