Far-left political influencer Hasan Piker identified American Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham as a major financier behind a network of pro-communist U.S. nonprofits engaged in «political advocacy» and «a lot of political movements,» marking the first public acknowledgment from a figure inside the far-left network that organizations in the Singham network are operating with an explicitly political agenda.

The comments are significant because congressional investigators and watchdog groups have long argued that nonprofits connected to Singham are functioning as overt political operations while enjoying tax-exempt charitable status. Critics argue such activity may violate nonprofit tax laws, which place strict limits on the amount of political activity charities can conduct.

As Fox News Digital reported exclusively on Saturday, Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued an administrative subpoena to Piker and far-left CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin for possibly violating sanctions against doing business with the Communist Party of Cuba when they traveled to the island nation in March for an ideologically-charged transnational convergence of communists in an international «convoy.»

Piker and Benjamin haven’t responded to requests for comment, but they have publicly defended their trips to March as «humanitarian» missions to help the people of Cuba.

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At about 37 minutes in a six-hour livestream on Monday, headlined, «FEDS ARE AFTER ME,» punctuated with two cursing emojis, Piker stunned listeners knowledgeable about the intricacies of far-left networks by saying that he believes federal investigators are ultimately targeting Singham and the organizations he supports, including CodePink and the self-declared communist organizations ANSWER Coalition and Party for Socialism and Liberation, for the «political» work they do.

Together, these groups and others in the Singham network have organized, coordinated and staffed most of the divisive anti-U.S. street protests the nation has seen over the past decade. Party for Socialism and Liberation is called «PSL» by far-left activists.

«I think that ultimately the target is probably Singham and his operation from PSL to ANSWER Coalition to CodePink — like anything that he has ever financed,» Piker said during the stream.

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A five-part Fox News Digital investigation published in March, the week of the Cuba convoy, documented how Singham funneled $278 million, starting in 2017 after his marriage to CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, into a network of six nonprofits that, in turn, have financially supported dozens of organizations globally and operationally participated in a transnational network of about 2,000 organizations, most of them promoting pro-China messaging and causes aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.

The investigation also documented for the first time Singham’s appearance at a Shanghai conference in November 2025 at the Golden Tulip Hotel, where he praised Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party’s vision for a «new world order.»

Piker defended Singham during the livestream, arguing the federal government was attempting to suppress activism financed by Singham, a wealthy ideological donor.

«And it’s not new, it’s been around for a while,» Piker said.

Piker continued. «It’s like totally f—ing ridiculous to try and stop the political advocacy of an American citizen.»

He continued: «Roy Singham is an American citizen. He lives in China now and he’s a centimillionaire. I think he has almost a billion dollars.» A centimillioniare is a rich person with a net worth of at least $100 million.

In 2017, Singham sold his technology company, Thoughtworks, for an estimated $785 million, and began establishing a new network of shell corporations and nonprofit organizations in the U.S., from his adopted base in Shanghai, according to the Fox News Digital investigation.

Piker then described Singham as «funding vehicle» for «a lot of political movements.» The Singham network has deployed rapid-response teams to protest U.S. actions, including demonstrations that support the Islamic Republic of Iran, with professional protesters like CodePink D.C. Coordinator Olivia DiNucci painting her hands red to vilify U.S. military action in Iran. She protested beside Benjamin outside the White House.

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Piker said, «Not sure how much money he has now, but he’s been a funding vehicle for a lot of political movements in the country, like a lot of activism, and they hate that s—, so they’re trying to jam them up.»

«They’re trying to hit him on anything and everything they possibly can. That’s it, that’s the goal here. That’s the broader goal.»

Monday’s comments were especially notable because they marked the first time a prominent figure within the network openly characterized Singham’s role as supporting «political movements» and «political advocacy» operations in the United States.

According to Fox News Digital’s investigation, Singham has pumped the $285 million into six organizations: $22.44 million to the People’s Forum, a hub for communist organizing in New York City; $1.33 million to CodePink; $68.7 million to Justice and Education Fund Inc., a nonprofit that funnels money to anonymous projects overseas; $1.098 million to BreakThrough BT Media, a propaganda arm; and $16.76 million to Tricontinental Ltd., a pro-communist think tank. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and ANSWER Coalition share office space at the People’s Forum and share leadership with the People’s Forum.

Multiple congressional committees — including the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, House Oversight Committee and House Ways and Means Committee — have examined aspects of Singham’s funding network, particularly questions surrounding foreign influence, nonprofit compliance and political advocacy activities.

Investigators have increasingly focused on whether organizations receiving charitable tax benefits engaged in political activism beyond the scope permitted under federal law. Piker’s description of Singham as financing «political movements» may now intensify the investigations.

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Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker stands outside his home in West Hollywood, Calif., on May 12, 2026, pointing silently to his dog Kaya to direct her back into his home. (MB/Splash for Fox News Digital)

Piker is the Turkish-born nephew of a Turkish-American socialist political operative Cenk Uygur, founder of the Young Turks YouTube channel and a co-founder of Justice Democrats, a socialist organization that helped elect far-left lawmakers including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

In recent years, Piker has risen to national prominence as one of the country’s most influential left-wing online commentators, espousing Marxism even though critics call him a «champagne socialist,» because of his penchant for wearing designer clothes, driving expensive vehicles and living a high-end lifestyle. Piker drew criticism in even socialist circles for living in a $2 million home in West Hollywood, California.

Piker has monetized these hours-long livestreams on a platform called Twitch, popular with young online gamers. He talks for hours on end, mostly without a script, free associating in a stream of conscious that often includes rants, curses and condemnations of the very nation where he has built his wealth, repeating the talking points of U.S. adversaries including Russia, China, Cuba and Hamas, the terrorist organization. In his livestream on Monday, Piker bragged about buying a suit from a photoshoot he just completed in New York City over the weekend.

News of the subpoena against Piker and Benjamin triggered widespread reaction across activist and political circles, with far-left figures and organizations rallying behind Piker, while even Democratic leaders and influencers mocked Piker for turning his back on Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and now facing scrutiny from the Trump administration.

Piker himself has devoted two livestreams since the news broke to condemning the investigation, describing it as politically motivated and characterizing himself as a victim.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control enforces U.S. sanctions laws and restrictions involving foreign governments, organizations and individuals under Treasury Department sanctions programs. In Washington policy circles, «OFAC» has become a verb and getting «OFAC’ed» is widely viewed as a serious escalation because it can indicate potential sanctions or foreign transaction violations.

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Fox News Digital’s Sophia Compton contributed to this report.

El presidente Donald Trump se someterá este martes por la mañana en un hospital militar a su tercer chequeo médico programado en 13 meses, mientras surgen dudas entre médicos fuera del entorno presidencial y los estadounidenses en general sobre la salud y el estado físico del jefe de la Casa Blanca, que el mes que viene cumplirá 80 años.

El republicano visitará el Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, en Bethesda, para una visita médica y dental, según informó la Casa Blanca.

El presidente ya estuvo en este hospital en abril de 2025 para su examen físico anual y regresó en octubre para lo que los funcionarios calificaron como un «seguimiento programado», lo que provocó semanas de consultas sobre el diagnóstico y los procedimientos de Trump que la Casa Blanca evitó repetidamente. Siempre han dicho que el presidente “goza de excelente salud”.

Trump es la persona de mayor edad elegida presidente en la historia de Estados Unidos y llegó luego de que su antecesor Joe Biden hubiese sido desplazado de la candidatura demócrata en medio de rumores de demencia senil.

Trump hizo campaña en 2023 y 2024 presumiendo de su vigor, especialmente en comparación con Biden, y de sus resultados en exámenes cognitivos mientras atacaba a su oponente llamándolo «Joe Dormilón». La salud y el estado físico de Trump han sido centrales en su identidad política, y mucho se debe a que el presidente las ha invocado continuamente.

Pero ahora también recibe algunas preguntas similares a las que le hacían a Biden, como si está apto física y mentalmente para desempeñar sus funciones.

Si bien se lo ve activo, protagoniza múltiples actos, viajes y contactos con la prensa, médicos independientes se preguntan por qué las manos de Trump se ven con frecuencia con moretones que intenta siempre cubrir con maquillaje, por qué sus piernas están hinchadas y si las veces que se lo ha visto somnoliento en las reuniones públicas es señal de un problema más profundo.

La Casa Blanca ha atribuido anteriormente los moretones en las manos a frecuentes apretones de manos y a su uso de aspirinas como anticoagulante. En una entrevista con The Wall Street Journal en enero, Trump defendió su consumo de aspirinas, diciendo que ayudaba a mantener una circulación sanguínea saludable.

Pero el año pasado se reveló que el presidente sufría insuficiencia venosa crónica, tras ser examinado por una inflamación en las piernas.

En diciembre, el médico presidencial Sean Barbabella aclaró que le habían realizado una tomografía computarizada del corazón y del abdomen (que previamente no había sido informada) para descartar posibles problemas cardiovasculares. Según Barbabella, los resultados avanzados de imagen fueron «perfectamente normales» y no mostraron «absolutamente ninguna anomalía».

Pero médicos fuera de su entorno advierten que las explicaciones de la Casa Blanca no son suficientes.

«Esta Casa Blanca simplemente no parece querer reconocer ninguna dolencia física, pero las personas mayores desarrollan problemas médicos, y el presidente tiene casi 80 años», dijo a The Washington Post Jonathan Reiner, cardiólogo veterano del exvicepresidente Dick Cheney. «Parece que simplemente falta sinceridad por parte de la Casa Blanca.»

Además, cada vez más estadounidenses tienen dudas sobre la salud de Trump. Una encuesta de The Washington Post/ABC reveló el mes pasado que solo cuatro de cada diez estadounidenses creen que Trump posee la agudeza mental necesaria para ejercer la presidencia, 7 puntos menos respecto a meses anteriores. Además, el sondeo mostró un aumento de la preocupación por su estado de salud física (al 54% le preocupa en comparación del 44% en septiembre).

Otra una encuesta de Reuters/Ipsos publicada en abril reveló que el 51 % de los estadounidenses cree que las facultades mentales de Trump se deterioraron entre 2025 y principios de 2026. El mismo sondeo también indicó que solo una cuarta parte de la población considera que el presidente tiene un carácter equilibrado.

Además de presumir de su salud física, Trump se jacta asiduamente de sus resultados en exámenes cognitivos, que nunca fueron revelados, insistiendo en que las pruebas validan su forma física. “Soy el único presidente que se sometió a una prueba cognitiva. La hice tres veces. Para mucha gente es bastante difícil. Para mí no lo fue, aunque sí se trata de una prueba cognitiva”, afirmó Trump en marzo.

Luego añadió: “Empieza con preguntas sencillas, pero después se vuelve más complicada. Al final, muy pocas personas pueden responder esas preguntas. Incluye ecuaciones matemáticas muy complejas y cosas por el estilo”.

Los miembros de su gabinete también han presumido sobre la salud de Trump durante su segundo mandato. Durante una entrevista en un podcast en enero, el secretario de Salud Robert Kennedy dijo que el Dr Mehmet Oz, jefe del Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services y también estrella televisiva, revisó los historiales médicos de Trump y concluyó que tiene «el nivel de testosterona más alto que ha visto jamás en una persona mayor de 70 años.»

By NATO’s traditional metrics, the alliance appears transformed.

After years of pressure from President Donald Trump and growing alarm over Russia’s war in Ukraine, NATO allies are spending more on defense than at any point since the Cold War. NATO leaders have agreed to move toward a new framework approaching 5% of GDP by 2035.

For years, Trump accused NATO allies of relying too heavily on U.S. military protection while underinvesting in their own defense. His repeated threats to reconsider U.S. commitments to allies that failed to meet spending targets transformed what had once been an obscure alliance benchmark into one of NATO’s central political metrics.

«What really woke everyone up were two things,» Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO policy now at CNAS, told Fox News Digital. «One was the 2022 invasion by Putin … and the second was Trump, who came in and whether he scared them or he shamed them or whatever he did, that certainly added fuel to the fire as well.»

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Countries closest to Russia moved fastest.

 Poland now spends a larger share of its economy on defense than any other NATO member. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all have sharply increased military budgets since 2022. 

Germany, long viewed as a symbol of Europe’s post-Cold War military decline, launched a major rearmament push and created a 100 billion euro special fund aimed at rebuilding the Bundeswehr.

On paper, the numbers look like a historic turnaround.

European allies and Canada increased defense spending by 20% in 2025 compared with the previous year, according to NATO’s latest annual report. The alliance says European members and Canada have added hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending since 2014.

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Across Europe, governments are buying tanks, air defenses, fighter jets and artillery systems while racing to replenish stockpiles depleted by the war in Ukraine.

But the spending surge also has exposed the limits of the ledger.

«You have to start off with spending more, and you’re not going to see the capability results for a while,» Townsend said.

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Ukraine exposed how quickly a major war can drain ammunition stockpiles, strain production lines and overwhelm peacetime defense industries.

U.S. Army M1 Abrams tanks take part in the Armed Forces Day parade in Warsaw, Poland, on Aug. 15, 2025, commemorating Poland’s 1920 victory over the Soviet Red Army and marking the 105th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto)

A defense budget can show political commitment. It does not show how many brigades are ready to deploy, how much ammunition is on hand, how quickly weapons can be produced or whether a country can sustain combat once a war begins.

That is the gap now facing NATO.

For years, the alliance measured burden-sharing largely through the 2% benchmark. It was simple, public and easy to compare. Countries that hit it could claim they were doing their part. Countries that missed it became targets for U.S. criticism.

But Ukraine showed that a higher defense budget is only the first step.

A country can meet the benchmark while still lacking enough deployable forces. Another can announce a major weapons purchase that will not arrive for years. A third can spend heavily on personnel, pensions or infrastructure without immediately adding battlefield power.

Even NATO leaders increasingly acknowledge the distinction.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a bilateral meeting at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

«This is not just about more spending,» NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said earlier in 2026, calling for «smarter investment in the right capabilities.» 

Rutte has also warned that rising defense budgets must be matched by expanded production capacity as the alliance scrambles to replenish stockpiles and prepare for long-term competition with Russia.

Townsend said both Europe’s and America’s defense industries shrank after decades of lower military spending following the Cold War.

«The defense industrial capability in Europe and the United States has atrophied,» he said. «They lost the scale to be able to surge a lot more production.»

Now, he said, governments are running into the reality that factories cannot instantly produce the weapons NATO says it needs.

«While the money is there and the orders are coming in, the producers are struggling to meet the requirements,» Townsend said.

The war in Ukraine exposed how quickly modern industrial warfare can overwhelm peacetime production systems. European governments that announced major procurement plans after 2022 have frequently encountered long delivery timelines, strained supply chains and shortages in key sectors ranging from artillery ammunition to air defense interceptors.

A recent McKinsey analysis warned that «structural constraints could slow the path from spending to military capabilities,» pointing to fragmented procurement systems, industrial bottlenecks and long production timelines across Europe’s defense sector.

Those delays have also highlighted how heavily Europe still depends on American military technology and production capacity.

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«Europe right now is dependent on the United States and U.S. industry to provide a lot of the capabilities they know they need,» Townsend said.

Among the most difficult capabilities for Europe to rebuild quickly, he said, are air defense systems, long-range strike weapons, logistics networks, intelligence capabilities and deep ammunition stockpiles.

«Air defense is what they need and they need long-range fires,» Townsend said, pointing to systems such as Patriot missiles and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers that European governments are scrambling to acquire.

But as demand for those systems surged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, production timelines stretched longer.

That already has pushed some NATO countries to look elsewhere. Poland, for example, turned to South Korea for major weapons purchases as governments searched for faster delivery timelines.

At the same time, European governments are trying to expand domestic production capacity to reduce dependence on U.S. suppliers. Germany has ramped up ammunition production, while some civilian industrial firms have begun shifting portions of their operations toward defense manufacturing.

Still, Townsend said, rebuilding Europe’s military capacity will take years.

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The larger question, he said, is whether NATO can close the gap quickly enough.

«Will the Russians take advantage of this gap?» Townsend said.