Critics immediately tore into the former intel boss, with one calling him a “pathetic liar” about the laptop’s provenance.

Trump will take the action against the so-called “Spies Who Lie” as part of a flurry of executive orders he’s expected to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office, Fox News

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton.

President Donald Trump says his administration will move to revoke the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.

He misrepresented the facts in that executive order because it said that we had suggested that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation,” Brennan said during an MSNBC interview.

In the run up to the 2020 Presidential elections, these intelligence officials had claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop bore ‘the classic earmarks’ of Russian disinformation

In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued blanket preemptive pardons Monday to prominent government officials, the bipartisan January 6 th committee, and members of his own family, which Biden said was necessary to prevent retribution from President-elect Donald Trump.

His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.

Donald Trump has a day-one plan to punish the 51 intelligence officials who deemed the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation."

Mike Johnson said Biden has not "been in charge for some time" and even at a 2022 meeting, the president was unaware what was in his own executive order.

Ratcliffe, who served as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence during part of Trump's first term in office, was appointed with 74 senators voting in favor and 24 voting against the appointment.

Aafia Siddiqui's lawyer has submitted a dossier to outgoing president Joe Biden in the hope he will pardon her for what he says is a blatant miscarriage of justice. She was jailed in 2010 for attempting to murder an FBI agent in Afghanistan.