
Trump to Take Immediate Action Against All 51 Intel Officials Who Called Hunter Biden’s Laptop Russian Disinformation
A new report said payback could be coming for 51 national security officials who said in a crucial pre-election letter in 2020 that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop being released in the media were Russian disinformation.
Fox News is reporting that President Donald Trump will revoke the security clearances of the signatories to the public letter, which claimed the revelations from the laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Those signing the letter included former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who later appeared as a national security analyst with CNN, and former CIA Director John Brennan, who has appeared on MSNBC as a security analyst.
A 2023 investigation by two House committees found that the Biden campaign and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken were both linked to the efforts to downplay the contents of the laptop in the days before the 2020 presidential election. Blinken was an adviser to the campaign at the time.
Since then, the contents of the laptop have been verified as authentic.
In a letter to Blinken asking for a response to the revelation of his role in the creation of the letter, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner quoted testimony from Michael Morell, a former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, that a phone call from Blinken was the impetus for him to draft the letter.
“That same day, October 17, you also emailed Morell an article published in USA Today alleging that the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a ‘disinformation campaign.’ The very bottom of the email you sent to Morell included the signature block of Andrew Bates, then-director of rapid response for the Biden campaign,” the letter said.
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— Axios (@axios) January 20, 2025