Author and podcast host Sam Harris sparked furor from the MAGA base on Wednesday when he argued that any potential scandal related to Hunter Biden pales in comparison to what we already know about former President Donald Trump.
“Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared,” Harris declares in a now-viral clip from the Triggernometry podcast, which is sponsored by the controversial Epoch Times.
“First of all, it’s Hunter Biden. It’s not Joe Biden. But even if Joe, even whatever scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is, if you, if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he’s getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine or wherever else, or China,” continued Harris, laying out some of the allegations surrounding Hunter Biden, none of which have been proven.
“It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in. It’s like, it’s like a firefly to the sun. Right? I mean, like there’s just it doesn’t even stack up against Trump University, right? Trump University as a story is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Harris argues.
“In my view right now, that’s not that doesn’t answer the people who say it’s still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in
“That’s just a conspiracy, a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump. Absolutely, it was. But I think it was warranted,” he concluded.
“You’re saying you are content with a left-wing conspiracy to prevent somebody from being democratically reelected as president?” shot back one of the hosts.
“Well, no, I’m content, so the thing is, it’s just not left wing. Right? So, Liz Cheney is not left-wing. Right. Liz Cheney, continue everything in her…” Harris answered before the host pushed him again on the question.
“It’s not, it was a conspiracy out in the open. But it doesn’t matter if it was. It doesn’t matter what part’s conspiracy, what part’s out in the open. I mean, I think it’s like if people get together and talk about what should we do about this phenomenon?” Harris answered, pivoting back to his take on Trump.
“You know, it’s like if there was an asteroid hurtling toward Earth and we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a conversation about what we could do to deflect its course. Right. Is
The response from MAGA World came fast as people like former OAN host and Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec wrote, “Holy shlit [sic]. Sam Harris just admitted he supported censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story because it helped Biden.”
“This man just set his entire career on fire,” Posobiec added.
The clip has since been viewed over 2.5 million times on Twitter, which prompted Harris to respond and clarify his remarks.
“On the podcast, I was speaking narrowly about the wisdom and propriety of ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop story until after the election. I’ve always thought that this was a very hard call, ethically and journalistically,” Harris said in a thread.
He concluded, “Nothing I said on that podcast was meant to suggest that the Democrats would have been right to commit election fraud or take other illegal measures to deny Trump the presidency (nor do I think they did that).”
Below are some more reactions from the right on Harris’s comments:
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