president Donald Trump It revoked the security clearances of more than 50 national security officials who said Hunter Biden's laptop bore “all the classic hallmarks of a Russian information operation.”
A total of 51 former national security officials It issued a public letter in 2020 claiming that although the laptop had “no evidence of Russian involvement,” it appeared to be a “Russian information operation.”
The letter came after the New York Post reported that they had emails showing that Hunter Biden coordinated Joe Biden's meeting with a top executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma months before he pressured Ukrainian officials to fire the prosecutor investigating the company.
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US President Donald Trump signs pardons for those accused on January 6 in the Oval Office of the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, United States, January 20, 2025. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
Those on the list include former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., former CIA Directors Michael Hayden and John Brennan, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Fox News Digital previously reported that federal investigators at the Department of Justice were aware that Hunter Biden's laptop had not been tampered with and contained “credible evidence.”
Republican lawmakers, including Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, have previously proposed revoking the security clearances of these officials.
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President Donald Trump suspends an executive order after signing it at the presidential inauguration in Washington, Monday, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The order was one of more than 200 executive orders approved by Trump Opening dayAnd joining directives such as the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which the United States initially joined during the administration of former President Barack Obama in 2015.
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Trump previously withdrew the United States from the agreement during his first term in 2020.
President Donald Trump signs executive orders on stage at an indoor inauguration ceremony in Washington, Monday, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Other executive orders Trump signed on Day One include rescinding nearly 80 executive orders and memorandums issued under Biden, issuing a regulatory and hiring freeze on the federal government, barring “government censorship” of free speech, and directing every department and agency to address the cost. From the living crisis.
David Spector contributed to this report.
