Posted on 05/01/2023 10:19:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied Monday he was behind a 2020 statement signed by 51 current and former intelligence officials that discredited a report by The New York Post about Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation.
Michael Morell, a former Deputy Director of the CIA and one of the 51 signatories of the public statement, told the House Judiciary Committee in a recent deposition that on or around Oct. 17, 2020, Blinken, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign, reached out to him to discuss the laptop story. Morell said although the outreach was couched as gathering Morell's reaction to The Post's story, it set in motion the events that led to the public statement being issued five days after The Post's story broke.
"One of the great benefits of this job is that I don't do politics and don't engage in it," Blinken told Fox News. "But with regard to that letter, I didn't — it wasn't my idea, didn't ask for it, didn't solicit it. And I think the testimony that the former deputy director of the CIA, Mike Morrell, put forward confirms that."
During the final 2020 presidential debate with Donald Trump, Biden claimed the Post's story was Russian disinformation and used the statement to back up his argument when confronted about The Post's report by Trump. The statement also gave the mainstream media and social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook an excuse to suppress the Post's story.
Blinken was asked whether he still thinks the story was Russian disinformation, even though the validity of the laptop has been confirmed by several news outlets, including The New York Times and Washington Post.
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Thank heaven. “Never believe anything in politics until it is officially denied.”
Apparently cognitive brain function is another thing you don't have to engage in.
Did someone expect him to admit it?
Nothing happens to democrats.
I don’t know what question he was answering but note that he did not deny his conversation with Morell.
Somebody reserve a telephone pole for Blinken if all this treasonous activity in proven definitively true.
We need a new book to come out entitled “The Traitors Within”.
“”One of the great benefits of this job is that I don’t do politics and don’t engage in it,”
He didn’t have his job before Biden was President
The Democrats and RINOs, in seeking ever more power and money for themsleves, are pledging the nation to suicide by making crime "legal." Whether in the lap top case, the Epstein "suicide," the Covid hoax, the climate change grift, or releasing local criminals in inner cities, and more, the current governments at the city, state, and federal level are many times criminal RICO entities now.
Okay, Tony. Now say that under oath.
EC
Indeed like thousands of Chinese men crossing the border by the week it’s only people from other countries.
Stinkin Blinken,
So corrupt
you can smell it through the interweb..
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