{"id":1921171,"date":"2023-04-29T05:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dirty-trick-barr-blasts-letter-framing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-russian-disinformation\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T05:28:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T09:28:45","slug":"dirty-trick-barr-blasts-letter-framing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-russian-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dirty-trick-barr-blasts-letter-framing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-russian-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dirty Trick\u2019: Barr Blasts Letter Framing Hunter Biden Laptop as Russian Disinformation"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdirty-trick-barr-blasts-letter-framing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-russian-disinformation%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=1921171&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--><h2>Former AG Bill Barr Slams Intelligence Officials Over Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0428\/d904c272-7edc-4ee7-b09b-ee9d1f6cac66\/audio.mp3?length=3867597&#038;duration=322\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Attorney General Bill Barr has called out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaetz-pushes-to-strip-security-clearances-from-intel-officials-who-dismissed-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/\" title=\"Gaetz Pushes To Strip Security Clearances From Intel Officials Who Dismissed Hunter Biden Laptop Story\">51 intelligence officials<\/a> who dismissed the Hunter Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/giuliani-president-trump-should-declassify-more-documents\/\" title=\"Giuliani: President Trump should declassify more documents\">laptop scandal<\/a> as a \u201cdirty trick\u201d and accused them of being \u201cpolitical hacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the New York Post published a story about messages found on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop that suggested he had used his father Joe Biden\u2019s position as Vice President to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-suddenly-realizes-bidens-family-is-corrupt\/\" title=\"CNN Suddenly Realizes Biden's Family Is Corrupt\">secure lucrative business deals<\/a> in Ukraine and China. The 51 former U.S. spy officials signed a letter claiming that the laptop story had Russian ties.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Newsmax, Barr called the letter a \u201cclearly calculated\u201d move and \u201ccouched in a way to create a false impression.\u201d He added, \u201cIt was a political stunt. And I said I think all those so-called intelligence professionals act like hacks\u2014political hacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr also criticized President Biden for suggesting during the debates that the laptop story was Russian disinformation, calling it an \u201coutright lie to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Barr Admits Shock Over Biden\u2019s Denial<\/h3>\n<p>When the Hunter Biden scandal broke out, Barr chose to remain silent. However, in March 2022, he admitted that he was \u201cshocked\u201d when Biden insisted that the laptop scandal was Russian disinformation during the second presidential debate in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, the laptop was already in the FBI\u2019s possession for 10 months. The agency had also opened up an investigation into Hunter for multiple offenses, including alleged money laundering. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dirty-trick-barr-blasts-letter-framing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-russian-disinformation\/\" title=\"\u2018Dirty Trick\u2019: Barr Blasts Letter Framing Hunter Biden Laptop as Russian Disinformation\">laptop contained information directly connected<\/a> to these allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Barr chose not to make the information known to the public, which upset former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t Bill Barr reveal the truth to the public, before the election, about Hunter Biden? Joe was lying on the debate stage that nothing was wrong, or going on,\u201d Trump said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<h3>Letter Aimed to Benefit Biden<\/h3>\n<p>Barr\u2019s comments come as a member of the 51 intelligence officials who issued the public statement admitted earlier this month that the statement was intended to benefit Biden\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On April 4, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified that he had advised the Biden campaign to issue a statement discrediting the laptop story. The statement was then signed by the 51 intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>The cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal was just another example of lying to the American public, and it may have affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential race. It\u2019s time for the truth to come out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Bill Barr has slammed the 2020 letter written by intelligence officials dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, calling it a \u201cdirty trick\u201d and accusing them of being \u201cpolitical hacks.\u201d Just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the New York Post ran a story about messages accessed from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop suggesting that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":1921172,"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":[543],"tags":[7986,9899,10867,3620,3675,24824,3822,6880,4509,3965,9273],"class_list":["post-1921171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-dirty","tag-disinformation","tag-barr","tag-biden","tag-blasts","tag-framing","tag-hunter","tag-laptop","tag-letter","tag-russian","tag-trick"],"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\/1921171","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\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}