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SAM HARRIS: CENSORING THE POST’S HUNTER BIDEN EXPOSÉS ‘WARRANTED’ TO BEAT TRUMP

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Best-selling author Sam Harris has sparked outrage by claiming the “left-wing
conspiracy” to bury The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop was
“warranted” to keep former President Donald Trump out of power — and Harris
wouldn’t even care if the cracked-out first son had “the corpses of children in
his basement.”

In a now-viral interview on the “TRIGGERnometry” podcast, Harris, 55, happily
dismissed those who said it was “completely unfair” to have shut down The Post’s
Twitter account to silence its explosive reporting.

The influential philosopher noted how critics called it “a left-wing conspiracy
to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.”

“Absolutely it was. Absolutely. But I think it was warranted,” the “Waking Up”
author claimed.

Harris said silencing The Post’s reporting “absolutely” was a “left-wing
conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump,” one he felt “was warranted.”

“I don’t care what’s in Hunter Biden’s” laptop, he admitted, making clear that
“there’s nothing” the troubled first son could do to alarm him.

“At that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in
his basement. I would not have cared,” Harris insisted.

Harris admitted he wouldn’t even care if Hunter Biden “had the corpses of
children in his basement.”

The author further made it clear he supported quashing shocking info from the
first son’s laptop even if it showed the “scope of [President] Joe Biden’s
corruption,” noting stories accusing the commander-in-chief of “getting
kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine” or “China.”

Harris was interrupted by one of his two interviewers, Konstantin Kisin, who
said he “really struggled” with his guest’s troubling admission.

“I’m interested in democracy,” Kisin told Harris. “You’re saying you are content
with a left-wing conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratically re-elected
as president.”

Harris — whose own Webby Award-winning podcast is called “Making Sense” — then
stumbled over his words before insisting that “it doesn’t matter what part’s
conspiracy, what part’s out in the open.” He then pivoted to an outlandish
analogy that compared keeping Trump from winning a second term to working to
“deflect” an “asteroid hurtling toward Earth.”

Harris likened illicit campaigns to keep Trump out of the White House to people
working to “deflect” an “asteroid hurtling toward Earth.”AP

“Is that a conspiracy?” he asked, to baffled looks from Kisin and his co-host,
Francis Foster.

“Politically speaking, I consider Trump an existential threat to our democracy
right now,” insisted Harris, the author of five New York Times best sellers.

Kisin again pushed back, noting that Harris was effectively arguing for a plot
to “destroy democracy in the process of protecting democracy.”

Harris said his outlandish views were not as “corrosive” as the New York Times’
“obvious bias and inconsistency and dishonesty.” samharris.org

Still, even Harris said he would not go as far as the “corrosive” coverage by
“an institution like the New York Times.”


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The Gray Lady’s treatment of the laptop story showed “obvious bias and
inconsistency and dishonesty in how they just, like, they couldn’t even frame
it,” he said.

The footage quickly went viral online, with one clip racking up more than 5
million views as of Friday.

“Holy shlit … This man just set his entire career on fire,” wrote popular
right-wing commentator Jack Posobiec as he shared the clip.

“I think it’s funny people are surprised Sam Harris thinks this way. There’s a
whole segment of the country that thinks this way. They want Trump’s family and
yours in jail. Wake up,” he wrote.

Maximum Truth blogger Maxim Lott said that “Sam Harris says out loud what the
NYT/CNN/WaPo ‘journalists’ who covered up the Hunter scandal knew privately:
it’s not that the story was untrue, but that it’d help Trump, & they hate
Trump.”

Comic Dave Smith, meanwhile, said, “I actually appreciate Sam Harris for saying
this out loud.

“This is what the vast majority of the anti-Trump crowd believes, but most of
them won’t say it. At least when it’s said, you can see it for what it is.”

Harris later addressed the outrage in a Twitter thread in which he suggested his
words were “confusing many people” because he “wasn’t speaking very clearly.”



“On the podcast, I was speaking narrowly about the wisdom and propriety of
ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop story until after the election,” he tweeted to
his 1.5 million followers.

“I’ve always thought that this was a very hard call, ethically and
journalistically.

“But given what happened with the Anthony Weiner laptop in the previous
election, I think it was probably the right call,” he said, referring to the
discovery of Hillary Clinton emails on the disgraced former New York lawmaker’s
computer that rocked her 2020 presidential bid.

“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),” he claimed.

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His critics were not buying it, however.

“You were very clear,” one person replied, while another wrote, “The proof is in
the pudding, Sam. You reiterated it multiple times after they pressed you on the
same question.”

Harris is a Stanford and UCLA grad who made his name through teaching philosophy
and mediation, both of which were largely inspired by his experiences
experimenting with psychedelic drugs.

His books, including the PEN Award-winning “The End of Faith,” focus heavily on
his atheism, and have also seen him accused of Islamophobia.

That sparked his previous viral moment when Hollywood superstar Ben Affleck
completely lost it with him, calling his views on Islam “gross” and “racist”
when they appeared together on “Real Time with Bill Maher” in 2017.

“Ben, we have to be able to criticize bad ideas, and Islam at the moment is the
motherlode of bad ideas,” Harris insisted to applause from the audience and
support from Maher.

The “Gone Girl” star insisted Harris was being offensive to the billions of
believers of the world’s second-biggest religion.

“ISIS couldn’t fill a double-A ballpark in Charleston, West Virginia, and you’re
making a career out of talking ISIS, ISIS, ISIS,” the actor raged at Harris.


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