Consequences at Last: Trump Ready to Pay Back 51 ‘Former Intelligence Officers’ Who Misled America

RedState’s Streiff reported on it in his Sunday article, “President Trump Is Expected to Sign Over 200 Executive Orders Monday, Here’s What to Expect,” and now we have more info on Trump’s plan to mete out consequences to the 51 ethically challenged “former intelligence” officers who claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian misinformation. This, despite the fact that they had no evidence that that was the case. 

It was a crucial moment in history, and it very well may have helped Joe Biden win the 2020 presidential election and usher in four years of misery.

Abuse of Power: No Shame: Intel Officials Who Signed Hunter Laptop ‘Russian Disinformation’ Letter Call It ‘Patriotic’

According to a report, the well-deserved payback is coming:

President-elect Donald Trump, on Day 1, plans to suspend security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed reporting tied to Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, according to a report.

It’s a rogue’s gallery of Deep State creeps who undermined our country in their desperate quest to hold onto power. There seems to be very little “intelligence” among these miscreants:

This is what WINNING looks like 🏆

President Trump has announced that the 51 ‘Intelligence Officials’ who LIED about Hunter Biden’s laptop…will have their Security Clearances REMOVED. pic.twitter.com/Dg0le1PtFG

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) January 20, 2025

(An aside: looking at the above picture, where’s the diversity they so tout and lecture the world about? Not seeing it.)

As I wrote in June, odious characters like former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta all put their names to this factually incorrect document—yet so far, no one has been held accountable.

You remember the famous memo where 51 “intelligence officials” discredited the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell.” They had no evidence that it was Russian disinformation, yet they claimed it “had all the earmarks” of a Kremlin operation, a bogus assertion that caused Big Tech to censor the Post, the media to run full-bore with the narrative, and then-candidate Biden to even lie about it during an October 2020 presidential debate.

All this occurred in the weeks before the 2020 vote, meaning that it was a clear example of real election interference.

Not only did they dodge any consequences, but in June they doubled down on their flawed, deceitful message, unbelievably saying, “Every patriotic American should have signed that letter.”

But Trump isn’t going to let bygones be bygones, according to the report:

Trump will repeal the clearances of the so-called “Spies Who Lie” as part of a flurry of executive orders he’s expected to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office, Fox News reported, citing a senior administration official familiar with the matter.

Federal authorities eventually confirmed that the laptop belonging to President Biden’s son was authentic, though the national security experts have said they stand by the 2020 letter they penned over their concerns of disinformation.

Brennan, Clapper, and Panetta deserve their credentials to be pulled—and they deserve a whole lot more if you ask me. They sold their souls and their credibility—along with the security of the United States—just to ensure their regime stayed in charge.

All 51 of these “officials” betrayed the truth and the American people just for a bite at the apple of power. Many pundits want the about-to-be-president to just move on and let bygones be bygones, but that doesn’t work here. These misinformation disseminators cost the country dearly, and they need to be held to account.

Trump is right to take action. I can’t help but wish there wasn’t a stronger measure to be pulled against these liars, but revoking their security clearances isn’t a bad start.

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