President-elect Donald Trump plans to suspend the security clearances of dozens of former intelligence community officials who wrote an infamous letter about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election, according to a report about Trump’s anticipated day one executive actions.
A Trump administration official told Fox News that Trump’s expected action would be directed at the 51 ex-officials who “lied” about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the letter, which was published two weeks before the election.
Among the letter’s signatories were three former CIA directors, including John Brennan, as well as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. It is unclear whether all 51 signatories still possess security clearances. Trump said in 2018 that he used his presidential authority to revoke Brennan’s, but Brennan later said he was uncertain about whether the revocation ever actually took place.
The letter became a flashpoint in the 2020 election. The 51 officials alleged in it that a damning story in the New York Post published in October that year about the Bidens might have been Russian disinformation, thereby casting doubt on the story.
“The arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it