May 10, 2023 2:48pm EDT
Biden's White House spox implicated in effort to discredit Hunter Biden laptop: email
Biden campaign was tipped off of 'Russian disinfo' letter before it published, emails show
By Jessica Chasmar | Fox News
President Biden’s White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates has been implicated in the effort to discredit Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation during the 2020 presidential election, according to emails published by House Oversight Committee Republicans on Wednesday.
According to House Oversight Committee Republicans’ report Wednesday, former CIA senior adviser Nick Shapiro drafted a media pitch for the now-discredited letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that tried to paint the laptop at the center of the New York Post's bombshell story as a Russian operation in October 2020.
"Giving this to you exclusively first if you guys want to run with it," Shapiro wrote in his pitch to the media outlets, according to the email on Oct. 19, 2020. "You can also use this on the record from me Nick Shapiro, describing what this is: ‘A large group of former career intelligence officers, many specializing in Russia, joined by a group of former intelligence community leaders, are all saying that they believe the Russians were somehow involved here.’"
"’The ICE leaders who have signed this letter, worked for the past four presidents, including Trump,’" Shapiro’s statement continued. "’The real power here, however, is the number of former, working level icy officers, who won the American people to know that once again the Russians are interfering.’"
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