OPINION:
A presidential election suffered underhanded interference, and it likely flipped the outcome. No, it wasn’t Donald Trump colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton; that sophistry of the left was debunked years ago.
Rather, it was the wildly successful plot to marshal the intelligence community to rescue now-President Biden’s 2020 candidacy from the political impact of his son Hunter’s salacious lost-laptop debacle. The damaging consequences cannot be overstated.
Former Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell spilled the Biden-saving beans in a recent interview with House Republican investigators. The contents of his testimony appeared in an April 20 letter of inquiry, signed by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Intelligence Committee Chairman Michael Turner, asking Secretary of State Antony Blinken to account for his role in precipitating the misleading missive.
The query is fitting since Mr. Morell testified it was Mr. Blinken who triggered the drafting of the notorious public statement signed by 51 former intelligence officials. The statement asserted that a pre-election bombshell published by the New York Post on the embarrassing contents of Hunter’s laptop “had all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation.” At that time, Mr. Blinken was serving as a senior adviser to Mr. Biden’s presidential campaign.
House Democrats protest that Mr. Morell didn’t exactly say Mr. Blinken “directed or asked him to write any letters.” What would officialdom do without plausible deniability?
Pivotal is whether the former intelligence bigwigs knew their insinuation was false. If they did not — despite the FBI’s having possessed the laptop for a year — then their claims to “intelligence” amount to false advertising. If they did, their letter constitutes a political psyop.
Then-candidate Biden cited the letter to discredit the Post’s account, and media organizations spiked the story. Several weeks later, Mr. Biden won the White House, and the subsequent Biden era is history that might never have been: A Media Research Center poll found 16% of Biden voters would have changed their ballots had the laptop revelations not been suppressed.
In their oversight roles, Messrs. Jordan and Turner have asked Mr. Blinken to cough up what he knows about the Biden rescue, writing: “This concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy.”
The consequences of the “grave disservice” are legion: With Mr. Blinken as his top diplomat, President Biden has toyed with the world, ordering a catastrophic U.S. retreat from Afghanistan and giving China passes on accountability for 1 million U.S coronavirus deaths and its overt preparations for an invasion of Taiwan.
Mr. Biden also greenlighted the “minor incursion” into Ukraine that Russia has threatened to escalate into a nuclear war. And while longtime U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and France sidle up to a rising China-Russia axis preparing to take down the West, the president whines about the existential threat of climate change.
If there is a silver lining to the gathering storm, it’s that Americans are wiser now to the deceit of Biden-Blinken schemers who kibitz, spy and lie for a living.
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