Trump Pulls Security Clearances Over Hunter Biden Laptop Letter

President Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of 50 former US intelligence officials who had cast doubt on conservative attacks on former President Joe Biden’s son, delivering on a campaign promise to exact retribution against what he sees as a “deep state” conspiracy against him.

The former intelligence officials signed on to a letter in the final days of the 2020 presidential election saying the distribution of emails obtained from an abandoned laptop belonging to Hunter Biden “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

Hunter Biden

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The emails, which purported to show a corruption scheme by members ...