{"id":1923346,"date":"2023-05-03T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-denies-role-in-open-letter-that-called-hunter-biden-laptop-story-russian-disinfo\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:14:26","slug":"blinken-denies-role-in-open-letter-that-called-hunter-biden-laptop-story-russian-disinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-denies-role-in-open-letter-that-called-hunter-biden-laptop-story-russian-disinfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken denies involvement in letter linking Hunter Biden laptop story to 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\">26<\/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%2Fblinken-denies-role-in-open-letter-that-called-hunter-biden-laptop-story-russian-disinfo%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=1923346&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Secretary of State Denies Involvement in Hunter Biden Laptop Story Discrediting Letter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0502\/65115b2e-50d3-4ccc-ac6f-f58db4eab334\/audio.mp3?length=3404493&#038;duration=284\"><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken has denied playing any part in the letter signed by more than 50 former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-cia-pick-was-president-of-think-tank-that-took-millions-from-chinese-communist-party-tied-entities-report\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s CIA Pick Was President Of Think Tank That Took Millions From Chinese Communist Party-Tied Entities: Report\">intelligence officials<\/a> that sought to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the great benefits of this job is that I don\u2019t do politics and don\u2019t engage in it,\u201d Blinken told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/secretary-state-blinken-denies-role-hunter-biden-russian-disinfo-letter-wasnt-my-idea\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0reporter Benjamin Hall in an interview on May 1 when asked if he had any role in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut with regard to that letter, I didn\u2019t\u2014it wasn\u2019t my idea, didn\u2019t ask for it, didn\u2019t solicit it. And I think the testimony that the former deputy director of the CIA, Mike Morrell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-denies-role-in-hunter-biden-russian-disinfo-letter\/\" title=\"Blinken Denies Role in Hunter Biden Russian Disinfo Letter\">put forward confirms<\/a> that,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter Blinken was referencing was signed by 51 former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-denies-role-in-open-letter-that-called-hunter-biden-laptop-story-russian-disinfo\/\" title=\"Blinken denies involvement in letter linking Hunter Biden laptop story to Russian disinformation.\">senior intelligence officials ahead<\/a> of the 2020 presidential election (<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/02\/id5235848-Hunter-Biden-Emails-Statement.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Signatories of the open letter claimed that the\u00a0contents of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-tradeoff-is-that-he-gets-to-pardon-hunter-greg-gutfeld-predicts-democrats-will-push-biden-out-in-2024\/\" title=\"\u2018The Tradeoff Is That He Gets To Pardon Hunter\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Predicts Democrats Will Push Biden Out In 2024\">laptop allegedly belonging<\/a> to Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden,\u00a0had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement\u2014just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4986994\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/15\/GettyImages-1229207666-1200x802.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> An exterior view of The Mac Shop, where Hunter Biden allegedly brought his laptop for repair but never picked it up, in Wilmington, Del., on Oct. 21, 2020. (Angela Weiss\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>Former CIA Senior Official Testifies<\/h2>\n<p>Blinken\u2019s comments came shortly after the former deputy director of the CIA, Mike Morrell\u2014who was among the individuals who signed the 2020 letter\u2014told the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees that he had organized the letter after Blinken \u201creached out to him to\u00a0discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Testimony\u00a0cited by\u00a0Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)\u2014who heads both the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government\u2014states that at the time Blinken allegedly reached out to\u00a0Morrell, Blinken was serving as a\u00a0senior adviser to the Biden campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Morrell\u2019s testimony was revealed in an April 20 letter Jordan wrote to Blinken stating that lawmakers had learned that the secretary of state \u201cplayed a role in the inception\u201d of the 2020 letter while\u00a0serving as a Biden campaign adviser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Morell, although your outreach was couched as simply gathering Morell\u2019s reaction to the Post story, it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>The letter then goes on to share some of\u00a0Morell\u2019s testimony before lawmakers in which they ask him, \u201cprior to [Secretary Blinken\u2019s] call, you\u2014you did not have any intent to write this statement?\u201d to which Morrell responds, \u201cI did not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay. So his call triggered [the letter],\u201d they ask Morell, to which he responds, \u201cIt did, yes,\u201d before reiterating that it \u201cabsolutely\u201d did.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4988329\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/16\/Hunter-Biden-GettyImages-1242488423-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> President Joe Biden (L) alongside his son Hunter Biden exit Holy Spirit Catholic Church after attending mass in Johns Island, S.C., on Aug. 13, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>Blinken \u2018Not Engaging in Politics\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Blinken denies any involvement in the letter that sought to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian disinformation campaign. He claims that he doesn&#8217;t engage in politics and that the letter wasn&#8217;t his idea, nor did he ask for it or solicit it. The former deputy director of the CIA, Mike Morrell, testified that Blinken reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story, which set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement. The letter was signed by 51 former senior intelligence officials ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Signatories of the open letter claimed that the contents of a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden had all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation. <\/p>\n<h3>Key Points:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Blinken denies any involvement in the letter that sought to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian disinformation campaign.<\/li>\n<li>The former deputy director of the CIA, Mike Morrell, testified that Blinken reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story, which set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement.<\/li>\n<li>The letter was signed by 51 former senior intelligence officials ahead of the 2020 presidential election.<\/li>\n<li>Signatories of the open letter claimed that the contents of a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden had all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken has denied playing any part in the letter signed by more than 50 former intelligence officials that sought to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian disinformation campaign. \u201cOne of the great benefits of this job is that I don\u2019t do politics and don\u2019t engage in it,\u201d Blinken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1923347,"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":[9899,3620,4636,4775,3822,6998,6880,4509,20805,3965,4178],"class_list":["post-1923346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-disinformation","tag-biden","tag-blinken","tag-denies","tag-hunter","tag-involvement","tag-laptop","tag-letter","tag-linking","tag-russian","tag-story"],"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\/1923346","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}