President Donald Trump pulled security clearances from more than 50 national security officials who said Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic signs of a Russian information operation.”
A total of 51 former national security officials released a public letter in 2020 claiming that the laptop had “no evidence of Russian involvement,” but it looked like a “Russian information operation.”
The letter came after the New York Post reported that they had emails showing Hunter Biden coordinated months before a meeting with a top executive of Ukrainian energy company Burisma to force Ukrainian officials to expel a prosecutor investigating the company.
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US President Donald Trump signs a pardon for the January 6 defendants in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day on January 20, 2025 in Washington, US. (REUTERS/Carlos Berea)
The list includes former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., former Central Intelligence Agency directors Michael Hayden, John Brennan, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Fox News Digital previously reported that federal investigators with the Department of Justice knew that Hunter Biden’s laptop had not been tampered with and contained “credible evidence.”
South Carolina Sen. Republican lawmakers, including Lindsey Graham, have previously suggested revoking the officers’ security clearances.
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President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor presidential inauguration parade event, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The order was one of more than 200 executive orders approved by Trump on Inauguration Day, joining directives such as withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement that the US initially entered into in 2015 under the administration of former President Barack Obama.
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Trump previously withdrew the US from the agreement in 2020 during his first term.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on stage at the indoor Presidential Inaugural Parade event, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The executive orders Trump signed on the first day included rescinding nearly 80 executive orders and memoranda issued under Biden, a regulatory and hiring freeze on the federal government, curbing “government censorship” of free speech, and directing every department and agency to address spending. happens Life crisis.
David Spector contributed to this report.
