Ex-DNI Ratcliffe Claims He Validated Hunter Biden’s Laptop in 2020, but Joe Biden Led Disinfo Campaign Against It
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence, responded to the Twitter file disclosures about the Hunter Biden laptop case by noting that he was still in office in 2020. clearly rebutted claims Although Russian misinformation was the basis of the laptop story, there was no evidence. “essentially a disinformation campaign on behalf of Joe Biden that involved many people,” “a suppression of that truth and amplification of a lie that it was Russian disinformation.”
Ratcliffe said: [relevant remarks begin around 1:55] “The New York Post broke that story, but I was the one that verified it. I was the one that said, no, despite what a lot of former intelligence officials are saying and Democratic officials like Adam Schiff are saying, it’s not Russian disinformation. And, unfortunately, what we’ve seen and some of what’s now been talked about in the Twitter files is that there was a suppression, essentially a disinformation campaign on behalf of Joe Biden that involved many people, and as a result, some of that information was suppressed from the American voters, even though, as you correctly point out, Jason, that, as the voice of the intelligence people — or as the voice of the intelligence community, I said that this was not Russian disinformation and yet, there was a suppression of that truth and amplification of a lie that it was Russian disinformation.”
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