Sam Harris appeared on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, where he suggested that President-elect Donald Trump may not have been struck by a bullet during an assassination attempt at a Butler, PA rally.
Instead, Harris speculated that Trump might have been injured by a shard of shrapnel from a shattered teleprompter.
“I’m surprised that a rifle round making any degree of contact with an ear wouldn’t do more damage,” Harris stated. “I think a shattered piece of shrapnel from a teleprompter is far more likely to do that to his ear than a rifle round.”
Maher pushed back, calling the theory “silly” and noting that the trajectory of a bullet could still cause minor injuries if it grazed its target. “If it just hit it by the slightest possible degree, it makes much more sense,” Maher replied.
Harris countered by referencing the tragic death of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was killed during the attack. “There’s no question that rifle rounds went flying.
Someone was killed. I’m not debating that at all,” Harris said. “Just, if in fact, a teleprompter was hit by a rifle round and we know there was shattered glass, that makes more sense to