‘Intel’ experts who influenced 2020 election with Hunter Biden lie to be investigated
In the days just before the 2020 presidential election, 51 so-called “experts” from America’s intelligence community unleashed a letter that claimed, falsely, that the Biden family scandals documented in Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were Russian disinformation.
They weren’t, the claim was a lie, and the scandals were true.
But that letter, part of a scheme that included the FBI’s interference in the election when it told media outlets to suppress the information from the laptop, was found in a later polling likely to be the reason Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021, and not President Donald Trump.
In short, that scheme likely cost Trump the 2020 election.
Now President Trump, inaugurated this week for his second term in office, has lifted the security clearances for all 51 of those who signed the letter.
And in a second blow, he’s calling for an investigation.
“Within 90 days of this order, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, shall submit a report to the President through the National Security Advisor that details: (i) any additional inappropriate activity that occurred within the Intelligence Community, by anyone contracted by the Intelligence Community or by anyone who held a security clearance, related to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officials…”
The order calls for recommendations for “any disciplinary action … that should be taken against anyone who engaged in inappropriate conduct related to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officials.”
A report at RedState explained, “That’s where things have the potential to get very interesting.”
The report explained, “Subsequent congressional investigations into the letter and its signatories have shown that intel officials did not act alone in attempting to delegitimize the Hunter Biden laptop story. In a transcribed interview with the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, former acting CIA Director Mike Morrell testified that he received a call from former Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussing the laptop story.”
Blinken at that time was a Biden campaign adviser and Morrell said that conversation “spurred” him to gather the various signatures that supported the false claims.
Morrell stated that before the contact from the Biden campaign, he “did not” have any intent to write that statement. He confirmed to Congress that the call “triggered that intent.”
#BREAKING: Testimony Reveals Secretary Blinken and the Biden Campaign Were Behind the Infamous Public Statement from Former Intel Officials on the Hunter Biden Laptop @Jim_Jordan and @RepMikeTurner reveal HUGE news here: pic.twitter.com/bX3fpqJKPo
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 21, 2023
Not only have the security clearances of the 51 Hunter Biden laptop hoaxers been revoked, but additional investigations into their activities are also underway. https://t.co/7Jae4QGDG4 pic.twitter.com/tQZENGhsrr
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) January 21, 2025
Brett Baier grills the ex CIA intelligence officer David Priess who wrote about the Hunter Biden laptop story having the earmarks of Russian disinformation pic.twitter.com/FexFb4rcsl
— • ᗰISᕼKᗩ • (@kingojungle) October 12, 2022
The RedState report explained, “In other words, the Biden campaign was the impetus for the letter, intel officials swore to it, the media dutifully refused to cover it, and social media shut down those who did. It was a coordinated election interference campaign. Making the 2020 presidential election rigged.”
Of course, Democrats have claimed for the last four years that President Trump’s contention that election result was “rigged” is wrong.
Neither Blinken nor the 51 were pardoned by Biden, who pardoned thousands others, on his way out the door.
One signatory, former CIA operative Douglas Wise, later confessed that the signers knew the Hunter Biden information probably was mostly true, in order to “make any Russian disinformation credible,” but they chose to sign it anyway.