Miranda Devine with the New York Post revealed overnight that Joe Biden’s campaign was behind the infamous letter from 50 lawyers claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.
Devine reports that this was revealed in new testimony by Mike Morell to the House Judiciary Committee, the man who put the letter together:
NY POST – In a sworn interview, Morell has admitted it was Joe Biden’s presidential campaign that prompted the infamous letter in which Morell and 50 fellow former intelligence officials falsely claimed that material from Hunter Biden’s laptop published by The Post before the 2020 election was Russian disinformation, sources in the House Judiciary Committee have confirmed.
Tony Blinken, now secretary of state, was the Biden campaign foreign affairs adviser who urgently phoned Morell in October 2020 to suggest the laptop was a Russian plant.
“We can prove that the entire purpose of this letter at the outset was to influence a presidential election with some of the most senior people who have ever been in our intelligence community using the imprimatur of their security clearances to pave the way for Joe Biden’s presidency,” Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast this week.
Morell, now a CBS contributor (Hey, “60 Minutes,” scoop in your backyard!), was deposed last week by the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
He admitted that, after the call from Blinken, he solicited signatures for his letter from 50 other former intelligence officials.
The letter, published in Politico on Oct. 19, 2020, two weeks before the election, falsely claimed that emails from the laptop published by The Post had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation … Moscow [will] pull out the stops to do anything possible to help Trump win and/or to weaken Biden should he win.”
The letter was used by candidate Biden three days later, in his final debate against President Donald Trump, to deflect accusations about Joe’s involvement in his family’s international influence-peddling operation, which had garnered millions of dollars from China and Ukraine while he was vice president.
“Morell wanted to be Joe Biden’s CIA director, got a phone call from Tony Blinken, who was representing the Biden campaign, saying, ‘Gee, Mike, doesn’t this Hunter Biden laptop look like Russian disinformation?’ ” said Gaetz.
“Morell testifies that then triggers him to be the ringleader of an enterprise to go to others and to put together a letter for the specific purpose of use by Joe Biden in the presidential debate … We can prove that and much more.”
The committee has also interviewed a former adviser to ex-CIA Director John Brennan and Obama White House alum Nick Shapiro, who cooked up the letter with Morell and delivered it to Politico.
Hello Deja Vu. Just like when Hillary Clinton was responsible for the phony Russian Collusion investigation into Donald Trump, now we learn Joe Biden was behind a fake Russian disinformation letter about this son’s laptop that he and the media then parroted to the entire country.
And just like in 2016, the media totally got played by the Biden campaign in 2020. But I don’t think they really care. All they were concerned about then was Biden defeating Trump. Even if the letter was fake, it didn’t matter. They were happy that Trump didn’t end up in the Oval Office for a second time.