Disgraced public intellectual and author Sam Harris appeared on Bill Maher’s podcast, where he told the Club Random host he believes Trump could have been struck by a piece of shrapnel from a teleprompter at Butler, Pennsylvania rally rather than a bullet.
“I’m surprised that a rifle round making any degree on contact with an ear wouldn’t do more damage. I think a shattered piece of shrapnel from a teleprompter is far more likely to do that to his ear than a rifle round,” Harris says, before Maher interjects by saying that this theory is “silly.”
“If it just hit it by the slightest possible degree, it makes much more sense,” Maher replied.
“There’s no question that rifle rounds went flying. Someone was killed,” Harris replied, referring to firefighter Corey Comperatore. “I’m not debating that at all. Just, if in fact, a teleprompter was hit by a rifle round and we know there was shattered glass, that makes more sense to me.”
“Oh, that he didn’t get hit at all. It was the teleprompter… But that doesn’t change the basic narrative,” replied Maher, who then agrees that the shooter could have “missed him completely.”
Harris goes on to say that this does not change the fact that Trump survived an assassination attempt.
A photo posted by X user Brick_Suit, who attended the Butler rally that day, shows that no teleprompter was hit.
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