How do you rephrase “America deserved 9/11”? You said it. You meant it. There’s no softer way to word that.
And if Hasan Piker was actually trying damage control, he wouldn’t go on a podcast with Mehdi Hasan — the same guy who said “make airplanes crash again.”
They’re both feckless cowards who hate this country. I’ll never see them any other way.