Email sought to provide Joe Biden with debate advantage through Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Exclusive: Recruitment Email Reveals Co-Author of Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Wanted to Help Joe Biden

A recruitment email sent by Mike Morell, co-author of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter, wanted former intelligence officials to become signatories to help give Joe Biden a “talking point” during a crucial presidential debate against Donald Trump. The revelation comes after Morell, the former Obama CIA acting director, admitted that now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “triggered” him to write the October 2020 laptop letter.

The Recruitment Email

The recruitment email from Morell was sent to former intelligence officials and included the laptop letter co-authored by him and former senior CIA operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos as an attachment. The quoted language from the Morell email, sent on Oct. 18, 2020, was read to the Washington Examiner verbatim and identically by two independent sources who had access to the email.

Morell’s email explained that both he and Polymeropoulos believed Russia was involved in the Hunter Biden laptop stories and that Trump likely planned to attack Biden over the laptop revelations in the upcoming debate. “We want to give the VP a talking point to use in response,” Morell wrote, the two sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

The Laptop Letter

Fifty-one ex-intelligence officials signed the laptop letter, which was published on Oct. 19, 2020, three days before the debate, and contributed to the baseless narrative that the laptop stories were a product of Russian disinformation — a narrative seized upon by Biden’s 2020 campaign and spread by some of the laptop letter signers. Biden referenced the letter during the debate after Trump brought up “the laptop from hell” and referenced Hunter Biden’s lucrative business dealings tied to Ukraine and China.

“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage,” Joe Biden said. Trump replied, “You mean the laptop is now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax?” Joe Biden replied: “That’s exactly what we’re told.” Trump lamented, “Here we go again with Russia.”

The Aftermath

Last month it was revealed Morell told House investigators he had no intention to write the laptop letter, but admitted his phone call with Blinken, then a top advisor for Biden’s 2020 campaign, “triggered” him to do so. Morell said it was his “guess” Blinken called him because the future secretary of state wanted it “out” in public that “the Russians were somehow involved.”

Then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe argued in October 2020 that there was “no intelligence” to support that the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. Konstantinos “Gus” Dimitrelos, a cyber forensics expert and former Secret Service agent, conducted an examination of the laptop for the Washington Examiner last year, concluding “there is a 100% certainty that Robert Hunter Biden was the only person responsible for the activity on this hard drive and all of its stored data” and that “the hard drive is authentic.”

• Morell wanted to help Joe Biden during the presidential debate against Donald Trump
• 51 ex-intelligence officials signed the laptop letter, which contributed to the baseless narrative that the laptop stories were a product of Russian disinformation
• Last month it was revealed Morell was “triggered” by a phone call with Blinken to write the laptop letter
• Then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe argued in October 2020 that there was “no intelligence” to support that the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign
• Konstantinos “Gus” Dimitrelos concluded that “the hard drive is authentic”