#416 — “More From Sam”: Biden's Big Lie, Review of Tapper Interview, Trump, & a Case Against Israel's Actions in Gaza

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Sam hopped back on with his manager and business partner, Jaron Lowenstein, to talk about current events and answer some of the questions you all submitted on Substack. They discuss the Biden cover-up and how it compares to Trump’s transgressions, Sam’s latest episode with Jake Tapper, whether Tapper had a journalistic responsibility to share what he knew about the cover-up sooner, and criticism from the audience about Sam’s views on Israel’s actions in Gaza.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you're not currently on our subscriber feed, and we'll only be hearing the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense podcast, you'll need to subscribe
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0:31.7	becoming one. Okay, we're back, Sam.
0:38.3	Good to see you, my friend.
0:39.6	Good to you.
0:40.3	Yeah.
0:41.2	Yeah.
0:41.8	What's going on?
0:42.6	Anything happening?
0:43.5	Oh, nothing happening in the world.
0:44.7	But, you know, maybe there's some topics I can hit you with if you're okay with that.
0:51.1	Yeah, let's do it.
0:52.0	All right.
0:53.0	You've been concerned about Donald Trump due to his refusal of a peaceful transfer of power
0:57.3	as a threat to democracy.
0:59.2	But now we're beginning to see just how massive this Biden cover-up was.
1:03.0	And in the past, we also saw Bernie pushed out by the Democratic elite in 2016.
1:08.0	Aren't these also threats to our democracy?
1:10.2	And maybe these aren't even threats. Aren't these
1:12.4	actual moments where we didn't have democracy? I mean, there's certainly a corruption of our
1:17.6	democracy. I mean, they're not ideal. The details of, you know, what went into Biden running for
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