Sam Harris Spins His Hunter Biden/Donald Trump Comments, Just Digs the Hole Deeper – Opinion

Sam Harris was the host of the podcast and he had lots of talk when he said that there had been a plot to destroy Hunter Biden’s laptop. This conspiracy was meant to help Joe Biden win while hurting President Donald Trump. “But I think it was warranted,” he said. It was more important to defeat Trump, “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared.”

“It was a conspiracy out in the open,” Harris declared. “If there was an asteroid hurdling towards Earth, and we got in a room together with all our friends and had a conversation about what we could do to deflect the course — is that a conspiracy?”

As my colleague Brandon Morse noted, this is how insane some on the left have become with their Trump Derangement Syndrome — they will throw anything and everything, any principles they may have claimed to have had under the bus to defeat him.

Harris used his words to destroy any credibility he had with anyone.

Harris now backpedals a little, trying to make sense of what he said. He should have just taken the “L” and shut up, because, of course, he managed to make it worse.

Here’s how he tried to clean it up in a Twitter thread.

There is a podcast clip circulating that seems to be confusing many people about my views on Trump (which is understandable because I wasn’t speaking very clearly). So, for what it’s worth, here is what I was trying to say:

I was essentially arguing for a principle of self-defense (where there’s a continuum of proportionate force that is appropriate and necessary to use). I’ve always viewed Trump as a very dangerous person to elect as president of a fake university let alone the US, and when he became a sitting president who would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, I viewed him as more dangerous still. (However, I’ve never been under any illusion that he is Orange Hitler.)

In the podcast I spoke narrowly on the wisdom and properness of not addressing the Hunter Biden laptop case until after election. I’ve always thought that this was a very hard call, ethically and journalistically. But, given the events surrounding the Anthony Weiner laptop and the election before it, I believe that this was the right call.

The podcast did not contain any statements that suggested that I believed the Democrats were right to vote fraud, or to take illegal steps to deprive Trump of the presidency. I don’t think so.

Now you have the freedom to spin whatever way suits your needs, but what was clear were your words. You said it. You weren’t just talking about “ignoring” it, you were talking about suppressing it, acknowledging what was done to the NY Post. Russian disinformation was falsely called by media.

So here’s the thing: If you have to suppress the truth to win, then there are several problems with your assessment besides the fact that you have no principles. It means that the Bad Orange Man isn’t what you claim he is because people still want to vote for him and have him win. It also means it’s you who can’t handle the truth. And you’re wondering “journalistically” about the call? If you’re not printing the truth and you know you’re not, you’re not a journalist. That’s what was going on with the media who lied and spun the story of the laptop, Sam. It wasn’t a “hard call” — they lied, they were acting as Democratic operatives, not journalists.

Sam represents a number of liberals. The ends justify the means and the bodies in the basement didn’t matter, just as long as you got rid of Trump.

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