John Fetterman: “Hasan Piker, for example, you know, he's a big, big…”

“You know, when you say that's communism, that feels like, that feels like a caricature. No, no, I never said that. I never, I call, I call real communists that, that are cheering for communism. People like Hasan Piker, for example, you know, he's a big, big influence, you know, on the Democratic Party conversation. And he is, he is a communist. He celebrates Mao and describes and is going to be proud to visit Cuba and, and stand on people on those sides. That's not a smear.” (25:13–25:23)

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