Scott Jennings, the conservative commentator frequently seen on CNN, filed a motion on Tuesday to dismiss a defamation suit filed against him by far-left streamer and provocateur Hasan Piker, according to an exclusive report by the Daily Wire. 

Piker filed a $72.5 million lawsuit against Jennings over an episode of Jennings’ radio show from last August, in which he said that Piker was “out there calling for Black voters to be lynched,” according to the filings.

Piker, the nephew of left-wing activist and co-creator of The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, became well known recently for his close ties to Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed. 

Piker contends in his suit that Jennings relied on a 42-second clip shared on X by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which he claims takes out of context remarks that Piker says were sarcastic. 

Jennings’ attorney responded in Tuesday’s filing, that “Mr. Jennings did not create, edit, or manipulate and had no reason to doubt based on the source of the video and the totality of what is known about Mr. Piker’s general worldview.”

“Mr. Jennings’ filing today puts great trust in the U.S. Constitution, the truth, and the right of Americans to speak, even if Mr. Piker doesn’t like what they have to say,” Jennings’ attorney, Benjamin Chew, said in a statement.

The quote from Piker that Jennings cited was from an October 2024 livestream. Piker commented on a debate between two black political commentators, in which the conservative commentator blamed “woke DAs” for policies he said were hurting black Americans.

At that point, Piker paused the video and, according to the complaint, said: “We need more Klansmen, okay? Can we go back to a better time when lynchings were happening? This is what I like as a Black man. Also, there’s no real racism in America. My man said, ‘woke DAs,’ dude. What are you saying?”

Jennings’ attorney argues that his client would have had no reason to assume Piker was kidding, given his history of “appalling invective.”

“Hasan Piker makes his living courting controversy — to put it mildly,” the filing reads.

“Some of his more appalling invective includes saying that ‘America deserved 9/11,’ America is ‘the absolute worst f*cking place on the planet, just a horrific, monstrous, awful, dogsh*t country that I f*cking despise, the absolute fucking worst country,’ and ‘I f*ck the Constitution. I—I wipe my ass with the Constitution.'”