Former CIA chief: That letter about Hunter Biden's laptop? It was Tony Blinken's idea to help Biden's campaign

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New testimony by Michael Morell, former Deputy Director of the CIA, provided some previously undisclosed information about the Biden campaign’s participation in the letter signed by himself and 50 other signatories titled “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails.” Morell threw Antony Blinken under the bus and exposed him as the one who instigated the public statement in October 2020, just before the presidential election in November, as a senior advisor to the Biden campaign. It was Blinken’s idea to get Morell and 50 of his colleagues in the intelligence community to sign the letter claiming that the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden’s emails on his laptop was Russian disinformation. Now Antony Blinken is secretary of state.

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That narrative was always false and Blinken and the Biden campaign knew it when they put together the letter and published it for voters to see to help Joe Biden get elected. It was never Russian disinformation, as the actual emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer proved. It was Hunter’s words and stories in emails about the corrupt Biden, Inc. business dealings, including the 10% cut The Big Guy received. Hunter Biden was up to his eyeballs in business dealings with foreign countries like China, Russia, and Ukraine thanks to the fact that Hunter and other family members traded on the family name and access to Joe. Apparently, Blinken was rewarded for his efforts with the plum job as secretary of state.

According to a press release on Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) just sent a letter to Secretary Blinken demanding documents and communications related to the Committees’ investigation.

Hunter’s emails prove that Joe Biden was well aware of Hunter’s business dealings though he has repeatedly denied any knowledge whatsoever. Joe lied. Hunter lied. Lots of lying going on to protect the Biden family enterprise and to help get Joe elected as president. Think of the deals that can be made now, right? Do we think it was just a coincidence that Hunter and his aunt tagged along on Joe’s vacation to Ireland? Since Joe and Jill moved into the White House, Hunter has been a frequent presence. Suddenly it’s normal. Does he live in the White House now?

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Here is the recap of why we are here from the House Judiciary Committee’s press release:

On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published a report detailing how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father, now-President Joe Biden, for personal gain with the apparent awareness of President Biden. The article reported on several emails found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that he had abandoned in a Delaware computer shop. The contents of the emails cast doubt on President Biden’s previous denials of speaking to his son about his international business dealings.

Within five days of the article, on October 19, 2020, 51 former intelligence officials released a public statement attempting to discredit the contents of the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden, stating that the story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” News publications immediately ran with the statement, with Politico publishing a story with the conclusive headline, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former officials say.” During the final presidential debate on October 22, then-Vice President Biden cited the public statement to rebut President Trump’s criticism of the Biden family business dealings.

Here is the new information as told in the press release:

The Committees recently conducted a transcribed interview with Michael Morell, a former Deputy Director of the CIA and one of the 51 signatories of the public statement. In his transcribed interview, Morell testified that on or around October 17, 2020, Blinken served as a senior advisor to the Biden campaign and reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story. According to Morell, although your outreach was couched as simply gathering Morell’s reaction to the Post story, it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement.

That same day, October 17, Blinken also emailed Morell an article published in USA Today alleging that the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a “disinformation campaign.” The very bottom of the email he sent to Morell included the signature block of Andrew Bates, then-director of rapid response for the Biden campaign.

Morell testified that his communication with Blinken was one of a few communications he had with the Biden campaign, explaining that he also received a call from Steve Ricchetti, Chairman of the Biden campaign, following the October 22 debate to thank him for writing the statement. Morell also explained that the Biden campaign helped to strategize about the public release of the statement. Morell further explained that one of his two goals in releasing the statement was to help then-Vice President Biden in the debate and to assist him in winning the election.

Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election. Although the statement’s signatories have an unquestioned right to free speech and free association—which we do not dispute—their reference to their national security credentials lent weight to the story and suggested access to specialized information unavailable to other Americans. This concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy.

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Sounds damning to me. Do we think Blinken will cooperate and provide the documents the committee chairs requested? I do wonder why Morell suddenly found his conscience and fessed up about how the letter came into being and why. Tony Blinken is secretary of state because he protected Hunter and gave a good boost to Joe’s campaign right before the 2020 election. Does it get any more corrupt?

It isn’t just the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. It’s the Biden family scandal. The evidence is all there. The press wasn’t just complicit in the cover-up but actively promoting the cover-up. Joe Biden is compromised. The Deep State is alive and well. The Intelligence community actively participated in campaign activity for the Democrat candidate in the form of a letter. They all knew it was not true and knowingly signed on to the letter anyway. And Tony Blinken was rewarded big time. This is the ultimate Swamp story. Let’s watch the press cover this testimony up as they did the email story in order to protect Joe Biden.

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