{"id":1790634,"date":"2022-12-30T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790634"},"modified":"2022-12-30T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:19:55","slug":"ex-dni-ratcliffe-says-he-validated-hunter-biden-laptop-in-2020-but-joe-biden-led-disinfo-campaign-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-dni-ratcliffe-says-he-validated-hunter-biden-laptop-in-2020-but-joe-biden-led-disinfo-campaign-against-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-DNI Ratcliffe claims he validated Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop in 2020, but Joe Biden led a disinformation campaign against it"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-dni-ratcliffe-says-he-validated-hunter-biden-laptop-in-2020-but-joe-biden-led-disinfo-campaign-against-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/filemay-2020-John-Ratcliffe-dc-ap-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s broadcast of the Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cIngraham Angle,\u201d John Ratcliffe, the former Director for National Intelligence, reacted to revelations in the Twitter Files about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop story. He pointed out that back in 2020, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2020\/10\/19\/dni-ratcliffe-hunter-bidens-laptop-is-not-part-of-some-russian-disinformation-campaign\/\">clearly rebutted claims<\/a> The Russian misinformation about the laptop story is what led to its creation, but it was not. \u201cessentially a disinformation campaign on behalf of Joe Biden that involved many people,\u201d And \u201ca suppression of that truth and amplification of a lie that it was Russian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe stated, [relevant remarks begin around 1:55] \u201c<em>The New York Post<\/em> 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\u2019s not Russian disinformation. And, unfortunately, what we\u2019ve seen and some of what\u2019s 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 \u2014 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\"><em>Follow <\/em><em>Ian\u00a0Hanchett on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday\u2019s broadcast of the Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cIngraham Angle,\u201d John Ratcliffe, the former Director for National Intelligence, reacted to revelations in the Twitter Files about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop story. He pointed out that back in 2020, he clearly rebutted claims The Russian misinformation about the laptop story is what led to its creation, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1296435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[9899,3652,3620,3706,5458,4087,4856,7968,3822,7189,6880,7456,7858,3819,12535],"class_list":["post-1790634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-disinformation","tag-3652","tag-biden","tag-bidens","tag-bongino","tag-campaign","tag-claims","tag-ex-dni","tag-hunter","tag-joe","tag-laptop","tag-led","tag-ratcliffe","tag-report","tag-validated"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}