Author Sam Harris said he supported the censorship of the Hunter Biden story despite acknowledging it was “a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump,” but then later clarified that he didn’t say that, even though he did.

Harris, who once found favor amongst some on the right for standing up against identity politics and Islamism, suffered a rather severe bout of Trump derangement syndrome around the 2016 election and hasn’t recovered since.

The public intellectual made the bizarre comments during an interview with the TRIGGERnometry podcast.

“Whatever the scope of what Joe Biden’s corruption is–we can 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–it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in,” Harris told the hosts.

“It’s like a firefly to the sun…it doesn’t even stack up against Trump University,” he added. “Trump University, as a story, is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden’s laptop in my view.”

Holy shlit

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 pic.twitter.com/FG3JI5Rb7e

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 18, 2022

Harris then ludicrously suggested that ‘Trump University’ was a bigger scandal than a conspiracy to interfere in a democratic election.

The author argued that social media giants censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the election was “a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump,” which was “warranted” to help Joe Biden defeat Trump.

“Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement (on his laptop),” said Harris. “I would not have cared.”

After he was roundly savaged on Twitter, Harris posted a bizarre ‘clarification’ that didn’t clarify anything.

“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,” tweeted Harris.

But given what happened with the Anthony Weiner laptop in the previous election, I think it was probably the right call. 5/6

— Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) August 18, 2022

“But given what happened with the Anthony Weiner laptop in the previous election, I think it was probably the right call,” he added.

In reality, Harris didn’t say that the Hunter Biden laptop story should have been ignored, he said there was a “conspiracy” to abuse the power of Big Tech to censor it and that he was fine with that.

Respondents to Harris had a field day.

Except the part where you explicitly and repeatedly did exactly that https://t.co/6LTrZmGNP4

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) August 18, 2022

It was not confusing at all. You condoned the undemocratic censorship of news reporting that could damage Biden in the 2020 election because you felt Trump was like an “asteroid” about to hit the earth and needed to be stopped. https://t.co/URmqOBFUDK

— Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 (@kristina_wong) August 19, 2022

"I wasn't defending the use of lies and censorship to defeat a candidate I irrationally dislike. I was defending the use of lies and censorship to defeat a candidate I irrationally dislike. I hope this makes things clear."

— Sam Harris https://t.co/3voRYZlcGM

— Mixy Pisa (@MixyPisa) August 19, 2022

Sam Harris (a man so intellectually open-minded he blocked me) may endlessly criticize the Democratic Party machine, but at the moment of decision, he will stop at nothing to keep it in power. https://t.co/CCjdGV9gyT

— Ben Kew 🐶 (@ben_kew) August 18, 2022

This is why any talk from people like @elonmusk about why Republicans need to be “nice” misses the point. Sam is OK with children being murdered and votes being rigged. That’s where Democrats are now, ethically and intellectually. https://t.co/IxIG6PkLo3

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 18, 2022

Elon Musk wants Republicans to be nice and Sam Harris wants to lock up his opponents

See the problem?

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 18, 2022

Now let’s hear from the 5 former CIA directors who did the same thing in the name of national security. https://t.co/55Zx6aaSZk

— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) August 19, 2022

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— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 19, 2022

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Donald Trump is hyping a poll that shows the FBI’s raid on his property has greatly increased Republican voter appetite for the mid-term elections.

A poll by the Trafalgar Group asked Americans if the raid had increased their motivation to vote in the 2022 election.

70.4 per cent of respondents said yes, while amongst Republican voters, 83.3 per cent said yes.

Trump shared the results of the poll on Truth Social, in addition to another question which asked GOP voters who they thought was behind the FBI raid.

76.7 per cent of Republican respondents answered, “Trump’s political enemies.”

As a whole, 47.9 per cent of Americans blamed Trump’s political enemies compared to 37.9 per cent who blamed the “impartial justice system.”

As we previously highlighted, experts are increasingly of the belief that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago will actually serve to help Donald Trump’s chances of becoming president again in the long run.

Trump also denied a Washington Post story that claimed he was unhappy with the lawyers handling his response to the raid.

“The WAPO story that “Trump is scrambling to add seasoned lawyers” to the Mar-a-Lago Raid case is, as usual, FAKE NEWS,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“I already have excellent and experienced lawyers – am very happy with them. This is highly political prosecutorial misconduct, I have not been charged with anything and, most importantly, I did nothing wrong. Thank you!”

Meanwhile, the media now appears to be about to about to launch another deplatforming assault on Truth Social in response to its massive growth since the raid.

Expect to see narratives appear blaming Truth Social for violent threats against the FBI in a repeat of what happened to Parler, which was largely deplatformed after the regime blamed it for the January 6 riots, despite much of the unrest being planned on Facebook.

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The media stopped describing the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as a “raid” after a top former FBI agent complained about the wording during an appearance on MSNBC.

Federal agents ransacked Trump’s Florida home, even going through his wife Melania’s wardrobes, in a bid to find classified records Trump allegedly took from the White House.

Trump supporters assert that the boxes recovered during the raid contain files that were already declassified by the time Trump left office.

The raid was carried out after an FBI informant had infiltrated Mar-a-Lago and discovered the precise location of where the files were being kept.

Despite widespread anger at the raid from both Trump supporters and Republicans in general, one former FBI agent tried to language police by insisting that the raid, timed for when the feds knew Trump wouldn’t be home, was not in fact a raid.

“Agents, by the way, don’t like the word raid, they don’t like it,” former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi told MSNBC.

“It sounds like it’s some kind of, you know, extra judicial non legal thing. It’s the execution of a search warrant. It’s a court authorized search warrant,” he added.

MSNBC'S Frank Figliuzzi says 'FBI agents do not like the term "raid"'. Moments later, MSNBC updates their lower third to "executes search warrant" pic.twitter.com/KHCXTzJf6p

— Kayvon Afshari (@KayvonAfshari) August 9, 2022

Figliuzzi insisted that the FBI would want the incident described as them having “executed a search warrant” and that calling it a “raid” helped Trump define what happened as “prosecutorial misconduct.”

Almost instantly, the media followed orders.

“MSNBC changed their chyron, from “FBI Raids Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Home,” to “FBI Executes Search Warrant At Trump’s Mar-A-Lago,” moments after Figliuzzi’s appearance, notes Jack Hadfield.

The New York Times also changed the word “raid” to “search”.

Change in Headline pic.twitter.com/5XMRVDBNf3

— Editing TheGrayLady (@nyt_diff) August 9, 2022

Twitter’s trending tab description of the incident was also changed to omit the word “raid”.

Twitter Monday night vs Twitter Tuesday morning.

Spot the difference! pic.twitter.com/SctOhcs0L1

— Jack Hadfield 🇬🇧 (@JackHadders) August 9, 2022

Meanwhile, Trump himself said on Truth Social last night that the FBI had already visited Mar-a-Lago in June to view the records after they asked Trump to secure them with an extra lock.

“Then on Monday, without notification or warning, an army of agents broke into Mar-a-Lago, went to the same storage area, and ripped open the lock that they had asked to be installed,” wrote Trump.

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