Author Sam Harris says he wouldn’t care if Hunter Biden had ‘corpses of children in his basement’

A popular left-wing author has gone viral for declaring he would not have cared if Joe Biden’s son Hunter had “corpses of children” in his basement.

A popular left-wing author has gone viral for declaring he would not have cared if Joe Biden’s son Hunter had “corpses of children” in his basement and it had been covered up prior to the 2020 election.

Sam Harris, who has frequently spoken of his hatred for former President Donald Trump, made the eyebrow-raising comments on the Triggernometry YouTube podcast on Thursday, while discussing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal with hosts Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster.

Just weeks before the 2020 election, the New York Post published details about allegedly compromising material discovered on a discarded laptop belonging to Hunter Biden – but the story was quickly censored by big tech platforms including Facebook and Twitter.

In March this year, The New York Times belatedly acknowledged that some of the emails found on the laptop belonging to President Biden’s son were authentic.

In which, Sam Harris says that it's ok to conspire against Trump getting elected, because he was the equivalent of an asteroid headed towards earth. Literally literally. Worth watching just for Francis' reaction at the end. Omg. pic.twitter.com/hVH7IPAx1t

— Alexandros Marinos (@alexandrosM) August 18, 2022

“At that point Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared,” Harris said in a clip which has been viewed more than 3.2 million times on Twitter.

“Whatever the scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is – you could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand he’s getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine or China – it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.

“It’s like a firefly to the sun.

“It doesn’t even stack up against Trump University. Trump University as a story is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden’s laptop, in my view.”

Harris continued, “That doesn’t answer the people who say it’s still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to shut down the New York Post’s Twitter account. That’s a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump – absolutely it was, absolutely. But I think it was warranted.”

Atheist and author Sam Harris.

A shocked Kisin asked, “You’re saying you’re content with a left-wing conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratically re-elected as president?”

Harris replied that it was a “conspiracy out in the open”.

“But it doesn’t matter what part’s conspiracy, what part’s out in the open,” he said.

“It’s like, if people get together and talk about what shall we do about this phenomenon – it’s like if there was an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, and we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a conversation about what we could do to deflect its course, is that a conspiracy?”

Harris argued Mr Trump was “unfit in every possible way” and that any means necessary to prevent him from being re-elected were justified.

“My argument is that it was appropriate for Twitter and the heads of big tech and the heads of journalistic organisations to feel that they were in the presence of something like a once-in-a-lifetime moral emergency,” he said.

“This is not the same thing as not liking George Bush or not liking John McCain or not liking Mitt Romney for their politics. This was, here’s a guy who is capable of anything, he’s not ideological, but he’s like a black hole of selfishness, so there’s no telling what he’s going to do, and we cannot afford to have four more years with this guy.

“And so what should well intentioned people do, who have a lot of power in these various way – you’re running The New York Times, you’re running CNN, you’re running Twitter – what should they conspire to do?”

Joe and Hunter Biden after attending mass in Johns Island. Picture: Nicholas Kamm/AFP

The interview quickly went viral online as people expressed disbelief at the comments.

“This man just set his entire career on fire,” tweeted Jack Posobiec from Human Events.

Brandon Morse from the website RedState wrote, “Decades from now I really hope science looks back at this time and studies this kind of mentality toward Trump,” adding, “I’m pretty convinced TDS is real at this point, and I’m fascinated by it,” referring to the conservative epithet “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.

Max Blumenthal, editor of the left-wing anti-war website The Grayzone, said, “Not only does Fake Smart Guy Sam Harris legitimise the hypothetical murder of children by Hunter Biden and defend a security state operation to subvert a US election, he makes up a word to seem intelligent – ‘infinite-tesimal’ – then proceeds to misuse it.”

Progressive comedian and YouTube host Jimmy Dore wrote sarcastically, “I’m for censorship if it helps my side politically … I mean, I just can’t see a downside to thinking like this cuz I don’t read history and I’m super smarter than you.”

Tech entrepreneur Alexandros Marinos, who posted the original clip, wrote, “The quiet part. He said it out loud.

“This is a document for the ages. Sam Harris says that it’s OK to conspire against Trump getting elected, because he was the equivalent of an asteroid headed towards Earth.”

Donald Trump speaks at CPAC in Dallas, Texas. Picture: Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP

Harris later posted a lengthy Twitter thread to clarify his position.

“There is a podcast clip circulating that seems to be confusing many people about my views on Trump (which is understandable because I wasn’t speaking very clearly),” he wrote.

“I was essentially arguing for a principle of self-defence (where there’s a continuum of proportionate force that is appropriate and necessary to use).

“I’ve always viewed Trump as a very dangerous person to elect as president of a fake university, let alone the US, and when he became a sitting president who would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, I viewed him as more dangerous still. (However, I’ve never been under any illusion that he is Orange Hitler.)”

Harris said he had been “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,” he wrote.

“But given what happened with the Anthony Weiner laptop in the previous election, I think it was probably the right call. Nothing I said on that podcast was meant to suggest that the Democrats would have been right to commit election fraud or take other illegal measures to deny Trump the presidency (nor do I think they did that).”

Harris, 55, author of the bestseller The End of Faith, rose to prominence in the early 2000s as part of the “new atheist” movement alongside British biologist Richard Dawkins, journalist Christopher Hitchens and philosopher Daniel Dennett.

He also hosts his own podcast called Making Sense.