Trump Revokes Security Clearances of 51 Ex-Intelligence Officials Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter

An executive order says that the signatories ‘willfully weaponized’ the intelligence community’s credibility to manipulate the political process.

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025. Jim Watson/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday revoking the security clearances of 51 former U.S. intelligence officials who signed a letter discrediting credible reports about emails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The letter was issued just weeks ahead of the 2020 presidential election in which Hunter Biden’s father, then-candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, was a contender. The signatories said that a news report about emails found on the laptop that Hunter Biden allegedly abandoned at a Delaware repair shop were false and “part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”