President Donald Trump issued security clearances to more than 50 national security officials who said Hunter Biden's laptop had “all the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.”
Summary of 51 former national security personnel released a public note in 2020 stating that while the laptop did not contain “any evidence of Russian involvement,” it looked like “Russian information processing.”
The letter came after the New York Post reported they had emails showing Hunter Biden contacted Joe Biden to meet with a top executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma months before he pressured officials. of Ukraine to fire the prosecutor who was investigating the company.
REPUBLICAN SENATOR SAYS TRUMP SHOULD NOT PARDON HUNTER BIDEN
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, signs a pardon for the accused of January 6 in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, US, January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
Included in the list are former director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden, John Brennan, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Fox News Digital previously reported that federal investigators at the Department of Justice knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was not tampered with and contained “reliable evidence.”
Republican lawmakers including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has previously proposed removing the security clearance of these officers.
President Donald Trump holds up executive orders after signing them at a ceremony inside the Presidential Inauguration ceremony in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The order was one of more than 200 executive orders Trump has approved Inauguration Dayincluding orders such as withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement which the US first entered into under the administration of former President Barack Obama in 2015.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Trump once pulled the US out of the deal with his first term in 2020.
President Donald Trump signs executive orders on stage at the Presidential Inauguration ceremony in Washington, Monday, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schifelbein)
Other executive orders that Trump signed on the first day include rescinding nearly 80 executive orders and memoranda issued under Biden, deregulating and hiring the federal government, banning “government shutdowns ” speaking freely, and instructing each department and department to deal with the expenses. of health problems.
David Spector contributed to this report.