According to a report, President-elect Donald Trump intends to suspend the security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who claimed reporting linked to Hunter Biden’s laptop bore “the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election.
According to Fox News, Trump will revoke the clearances of the so-called “Spies Who Lie” as part of a flurry of executive orders he plans to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office.
Federal authorities eventually confirmed that President Biden’s son’s laptop was genuine, but national security experts have stated that they stand by the 2020 letter they wrote regarding their concerns about disinformation.
The Post’s reporting on the laptop prior to the election between Biden and Trump included allegations of foreign influence peddling, drug use, and other heinous activities by the first son.
Emails from the device, which was left at a Delaware computer shop, revealed that the younger Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy company where Hunter, 54, served on the board.
The Post received a copy of the hard drive, and the computer was turned over to the FBI by the computer shop’s owner in 2019.
Following the bombshell report, a slew of former senior intelligence officers signed a letter alleging that the collection of emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” without providing any new evidence.
The Post’s reporting on the Bidens was also briefly censored on social media, but federal prosecutors used the “laptop from hell” and confirmed its authenticity during Hunter’s gun trial last year.
The FBI also “verified” its authenticity in November 2019, according to an IRS whistleblower testifying before Congress in 2023.
When contacted by Fox News last year, the dozens of former intelligence officials who questioned the legitimacy of the computer’s content either stood by their claims or declined to comment.
A lawyer representing seven signatories claimed that there “continues to be by many a calculated or woefully ignorant interpretation of the October 2020 letter” signed by the former officials.
“It served as nothing more than a warning letter of what we have known for decades: certain foreign governments — including Russia — continue to try and actively interfere in our domestic affairs and our guard must remain vigilant,” Mark S. Zaid told CNN at the time.
“Every patriotic American should have signed that letter.”
On Sunday, a Trump official confirmed to The Post that the incoming president plans to sign more than 200 executive orders after taking office.
An email sent to a Trump spokesperson on Sunday night was not immediately returned.