President Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of over 50 national security officials who asserted that Hunter Biden’s laptop exhibited “all the hallmarks of a Russian information operation.”
In 2020, a collective of 51 former national security officials released a public letter, claiming that while the laptop lacked concrete evidence of Russian involvement, it appeared to be a “Russian information operation.”
U.S. President Donald Trump signs pardons for January 6 defendants in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
This letter emerged following the New York Post’s revelation of emails suggesting Hunter Biden orchestrated a meeting between Joe Biden and a prominent executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma months before exerting pressure on Ukrainian officials to remove a prosecutor investigating the company.
President Donald Trump holds up an executive orders after signing it at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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 Advisor John Bolton are all included on the list. Fox News Digital previously reported that federal investigators with the Department of Justice were aware that Hunter Biden’s laptop was not manipulated and contained “reliable evidence.” Republican lawmakers, such as Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, have previously suggested withdrawing the security clearances of these officials.
The order, one of over 200 executive orders approved by Trump on Inauguration Day, joined directives such as withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, which the U.S. had initially joined under former President Barack Obama’s administration in 2015. Trump had previously withdrawn the U.S. from the agreement during his first term in 2020.
President Donald Trump signs executive orders on stage at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
On the first day of office, Trump signed several executive orders. Among them were rescinding nearly 80 executive orders and memoranda issued by Biden, imposing a regulatory and hiring freeze on the federal government, prohibiting “government censorship” of free speech, and directing every department and agency to address the cost-of-living crisis.
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