Hasan Piker, the far-left internet personality who has become a prominent surrogate for Democratic candidates in the 2026 midterm elections, has a younger brother whose long-term work on some of Americas most sensitive military platforms raises serious questions about judgment, vetting, and national security in an era of increasingly radical politics.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Hasans younger brother, Murat Piker, is an aerospace engineer with active security clearances who spent more than a decade at Boeing working on high-level U.S. defense projects, including Air Force One and the top-secret doomsday plane designed for nuclear war. Murat, who has appeared regularly on his brothers controversial social media channel and accompanied him to public events, has remained largely out of the political spotlight even as Hasan has become a lightning rod on the left, campaigning for Democrats such as Abdul El-Sayed and Francesca Hong while espousing views that many Americans would regard as openly hostile to their own country.
Hasan has publicly declared that America deserved 9/11, bragged about his support for Hamas, defended Irans right to defend itself, and blamed the Islamic Republics death to America and Great Satan rhetoric on the United States messing around in the Middle East. He also minimized public outrage over the brutal murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying the reaction was not so negative because Thompson was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder in his role as a health insurance executive, a remark that underscores the dehumanizing class rhetoric that increasingly animates the progressive left.
Murat, by contrast, has cultivated the image of a serious professional, describing on his LinkedIn profile a long tenure at Boeing Defense & Space before his voluntary departure earlier this year. My background includes significant experience at Boeing Defense & Space, where I led mechanical design and integration for next-generation satellite structures, managed high-pressure anomaly investigations, and defined structural interfaces across subsystems, he writes, noting that he worked on Space Vehicle Structures Design and emphasizing his technical leadership on complex aerospace systems.
I hold a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA and possess active Security Clearances, his bio continues, a credential that places him inside the tightly controlled world of classified U.S. defense work. Like his older brother, Murat completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers in New Jersey, a shared academic path that diverged sharply in terms of professional and ideological trajectories.
Both brothers were born in New Jersey but completed their primary and secondary education in Turkey, a detail that appeared on an earlier version of Murats LinkedIn profile but has since been removed. That international upbringing, combined with their affluent Turkish family background, has given the pair a cosmopolitan profile that Hasan has leveraged into a lucrative online brand built on leftist agitation, anti-American rhetoric, and a steady stream of incendiary commentary.
Murats role in the Air Force One program surfaced almost incidentally in a flattering Rolling Stone profile of Hasan published on Aug. 9, 2026, in which the writer interviewed the brothers together, apparently at Hasans $3.3 million Los Angeles home. The article referred to Murats old job as an aerospace engineer at Boeing, even though his LinkedIn profilenow out of datelisted him as a full-time Boeing employee as recently as September 2023, suggesting he likely remained with the company for a significant period after that.
I actually worked on VC-25B a little bit, Murat told Rolling Stone, referring to the technical designation for the new presidential aircraft. Yeah, Piker butts in, on the toilet. Dont let him act like he did anything cool, the older brother interjected, according to Rolling Stone, turning a matter of national security infrastructure into a punchline for his audience.
Boeing is currently developing two new presidential aircraft, the VC-25A and VC-25B, under contracts awarded in 2018 during President Donald Trumps first term. The program has been plagued by delays and cost overruns running into the billions, much to Trumps frustration, and press reports have cited security clearance complications among the workforce as one factor contributing to the schedule slippage, with the jets now slated for delivery in 2028.
A source familiar with Murats work at Boeing said he was not formally assigned to the VC-25B program and did not hold the specific clearance required for that project. Yet Murats claim to Rolling Stone is supported by a public curriculum vitae listing a series of high-security military jet programs, and the Air Force One effortunder intense time pressure from Trumphas been widely reported to have pulled in engineers from across Boeing and its contractor base, with one person familiar with his work history stating that Murat held a top secret security clearance.
On his public LinkedIn profile, Murat lists work on the E-6B doomsday plane, a militarized Boeing 707 designed to keep the president and senior military leadership connected to the U.S. nuclear arsenal in the event ground-based communications are destroyed in a nuclear exchange. This platform, central to Americas nuclear command-and-control architecture, is among the most sensitive assets in the U.S. inventory, underscoring the level of trust placed in engineers like Murat who are granted access to its design and integration.
Murat also cites work on the E-3 AWACS, better known as the Boeing E-3 Sentry, a critical airborne surveillance and command platform. The aircraft functions as an airborne warning and control system and provides integrated command and control battle management ... surveillance, target detection, and tracking capabilities, according to a U.S. Air Force fact sheet, making it a cornerstone of American and allied air operations.
His rsum further notes involvement with the E-7 AEW&C, which the Air Force describes as a combat-proven force multiplier that provides unparalleled abilities to scan the skies; communicate with surface, ground and air assets; and enable integration across the joint force. This next-generation airborne early warning platform is central to U.S. and allied efforts to maintain air superiority and situational awareness in increasingly contested environments.
Beyond aircraft, Murat says he has worked on the XLUUV, also known as the Boeing Orca, a cutting-edge unmanned undersea vehicle used by the U.S. Navy for mine warfare and other classified missions. The Orca program represents a major step forward in autonomous undersea capabilities, and participation in such a project again reflects the level of classified access entrusted to Murat by the U.S. government.
Asked about Murats employment and clearances, Boeing emphasized that it defers to federal authorities on who is granted access to classified programs. As a matter of privacy and security, Boeing does not disclose information about the specific work statement of former employees, a Boeing spokesperson told the Free Beacon. Boeing employees are only granted and maintain security clearances after successfully completing the rigorous background check and vetting process administered by the United States government.
Despite the gravity of his professional responsibilities, Murat has maintained a close and highly visible relationship with his brother Hasan, appearing frequently on his livestreams and social media content throughout his years at Boeing. On the show, he is sometimes referred to as Mu-Dog, and the brothers have streamed together from locations such as Japan and France, blending personal travel, political commentary, and internet entertainment.
On May 1, 2023, the brothers watched the launch of the ViaSat-3 F1 satellite, a project Murat told Hasan he had spent years working on. So what happens if SpaceX fucks this up and it blows up? Hasan joked on air, prompting a visibly nervous response from his younger brother.
Dont put things like that out into the universe. Its going to be a success, Murat replied, laughing uneasily as he tried to steer the conversation away from disaster scenarios. The exchange highlighted the tension between Hasans flippant, performative style and the serious, high-stakes nature of the systems on which Murat has worked.
Murat also appears conversant in the jargon and subcultures of the so-called Manosphere, the online ecosystem where Hasan often operates when he is not engaged in far-left or anti-American advocacy. During the 2023 satellite launch stream, the two spent roughly 90 minutes discussing the beliefs of incels, with Murat dismissing the subculture as emo for people who dont get laid, a remark that fit neatly into the shows blend of cynicism and mockery.
Even when Murat is off-camera, Hasan has repeatedly defended his brothers career choices to their audience, particularly when viewers question why a self-styled radical leftist would have a sibling working for a major defense contractor. In an August 2022 livestream, Hasan pushed back on criticism of Murats employment at Boeing, asking, Do you see Murat on Twitter saying yeah I work at Boeing and have no problem with that, before offering his own justification.
You think he doesnt want to work for NASA? He loves NASA. He wants to work for NASA, Hasan insisted, portraying Murat as an idealistic engineer constrained by the realities of the aerospace industry rather than as a willing participant in the defense sector.
Murats LinkedIn profile notes that he has also worked on the CST-100 Starliner, the crewed spacecraft Boeing has been developing and testing for NASA as part of Americas commercial crew program. That project, plagued by delays and technical issues, has nonetheless been framed by its supporters as a key component of U.S. space independence and competition with private-sector rivals.
When one commenter mocked Murat for allegedly not earning enough as an engineer, Hasan responded by flaunting his own wealth as an influencer. You will never make as much money as I do for the rest of your fking life no matter how hard you try, he said in an April 2023 video, before adding, Shut the fk up, a revealing glimpse into the contemptuous attitude he often displays toward critics while simultaneously posturing as a champion of the working class.
Public records indicate that Murat has done well financially in his own right, residing in a $1.24 million apartment in Culver City in the Los Angeles area. The Piker brothers come from a wealthy Turkish family, and Hasan frequently reminds his audience of how much money he makes as an online personality, undercutting his attempts to present himself as an authentic voice of the downtrodden.
Photographs show Murat frequently accompanying Hasan to events, functioning as a de facto wingman and quiet presence alongside his more flamboyant brother. While he is often a silent partner on the show, Murat has spent years making casual appearances as Hasan has built an increasingly incendiary public persona.
Beyond his infamous claim that America deserved 9/11, Hasan has praised Mao Zedong as one of the great leaders of this world, aligning himself rhetorically with one of historys most murderous communist dictators. These statements, far from isolated gaffes, form part of a broader pattern in which he romanticizes revolutionary violence and authoritarian movements so long as they are framed as anti-Western or anti-capitalist.
He has also openly supported terrorism in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adopting positions that go well beyond mainstream liberal criticism of Israeli policy. Im a lesser evil voter and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time, Hasan said during an April 2026 appearance on the liberal podcast Pod Save America, and he has referred to Ultra-Orthodox Jews as inbred, rhetoric that echoes some of the ugliest tropes in modern antisemitism.
I do not have a single issue with Hezbollah as a form of militancy trying to incur penalties on the genocidal state of Israel, he said on a Twitch stream with Ethan Klein in May 2025, explicitly endorsing a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. When asked on another podcast in June of that year about his favorite flag, he answered simply, Hezbollah, a response that would be disqualifying in most serious political circles but has not prevented Democrats from embracing him as a surrogate.
By contrast, Murats personal life appears comparatively restrained, with no public record of the kind of boastful promiscuity that Hasan frequently advertises to his audience. Murat recently married a woman who works in the tech industry, with the couple tying the knot in September 2025 and traveling to Africa for their honeymoon, a conventional milestone that stands in stark relief to his brothers performative excesses.
The juxtaposition of Murats access to some of Americas most sensitive military and aerospace programs with Hasans radical, anti-American, and openly pro-terrorist rhetoric raises uncomfortable questions that the political and national security establishments have been reluctant to confront. At a minimum, it highlights the need for rigorous, apolitical vetting of those granted high-level clearances, and it underscores the broader cultural problem of a Democratic Party and progressive movement increasingly comfortable elevating voices that denigrate the United States, excuse its enemies, and normalize extremist positions under the guise of lesser evil politics.
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