Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said he doubts that Joe Biden would have become president if the Hunter Biden laptop story hadn’t been suppressed in the waning days of the 2020 election.
Current and former members of the House Intelligence Committee say the 51 security experts who signed a letter seeking to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation engaged in a “cover-up” that misled the American people and should face consequences, including a ban on serving in government or loss of their security clearances.
In October 2020, the former intelligence officers signed a letter citing their professional experience for their deep suspicion that the emails on the laptop belonging to President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, were the handiwork of Russian intelligence, an effort by the U.S. adversary “to influence how Americans vote.”
The laptop has since been proven authentic, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has said it did not involve a foreign disinformation campaign.
Former President Donald Trump, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and many others have denounced the letter released two weeks before Election Day as interference in the 2020 election that kept voters from understanding influence peddling allegations surrounding the Biden family.
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) told the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show on Monday he wasn’t surprised the former intelligence officials risked their reputations by signing a letter spinning the revelations about materials found on Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation.