Trump to revoke security clearances over Hunter Biden laptop letter

[Lauren]

ON PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST DAY IN OFFICE … HE PLANS TO SUSPEND THE SECURITY CLEARANCES OF DOZENS OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS … WHO WROTE A LETTER ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN AHEAD OF THE 20-20 ELECTION. 

THE 51 OFFICIALS INCLUDE C-I-A DIRECTORS JOHN BRENNAN AND JAMES CLAPPER, WHO CLAIMED HUNTER’S LAPTOP HAD EARMARKS OF A RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION OPERATION. 

THE NEW YORK POST REPORTED IN 20-20, JOE BIDEN ALLEGEDLY USED HIS VICE PRESIDENTIAL POWER AT THE TIME TO PRESSURE UKRAINE FOR HIS SON’S PERSONAL BENEFIT.

THE OUTLET BASED ITS STORY ON EMAILS FROM A COPY OF HUNTER’S HARD DRIVE, WHICH IT GOT FROM DONALD TRUMP’S FORMER LAWYER RUDY GIULIANI.

THE POST SAID A DELAWARE COMPUTER REPAIR SHOP GAVE THE LAPTOP TO GIULIANI. 

THE F-B-I CONFIRMED DURING HUNTER’S TRIAL LAST YEAR THE LAPTOP AND HARD DRIVE WERE AUTHENTIC, BUT THEY DID NOT VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY OF ALL THE DATA. 

DESPITE THE RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CLAIMS, SOME FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS SAID THAT HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP WAS NOT MANIPULATED AND CONTAINED RELIABLE EVIDENCE. 

ACCORDING TO AXIOS, TRUMP’S PICK FOR C-I-A DIRECTOR JOHN RATCLIFFE, WHO ALSO SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DURING TRUMP’S FIRST TERM, BROUGHT UP THE IDEA OF REVOKING THE SECURITY CLEARANCES AND TRUMP AGREED.

IT’S NOT CLEAR WHETHER ALL 51 FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS STILL HAVE SECURITY CLEARANCES, BUT A FORMER U-S OFFICIAL TOLD AXIOS THAT SOME OF THE OFFICIALS ARE FULLY RETIRED AND TAKING THE LICENSES AWAY IS MEANT TO BE A “SYMBOLIC” MOVE. 

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