John A. Gentry

Okay, so the laptop, what I call the Laptop 51 case was a situation in which two prominent former intelligence officers, so Michael Morrell, who I mentioned, and Mark Polymeropoulos,

who was a senior operations officer, were apparently approached by a Biden campaign officer who said, in this case, Antony Blinken, now the Secretary of State,

So according to Morrell's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee in the spring of 2023, that's what I'm about to tell you, Blinken said, we need help, intelligence help,

Remember, the press had built up the credibility of intelligence officers.

These people know everything about everything and can be believed in your heart of hearts.

So these people now have credibility.

Blinken says, we need help.

We need help with this problem.

The problem was...

that Hunter Biden, the presidential candidate's son at that point, his laptop computer had been left at a repair shop.

The repair owner sent it to the FBI.

The FBI verified that the files on the computer were actually Hunter's.

And the files gave credible support to a hypothesis, at least, that both Hunter and his father, Joe, were corrupt in terms of taking money and basically influence peddling with Ukraine, with China, and maybe some other countries.

All right, so the campaign now says, this is a potential October surprise, a killer.

We cannot have this come out and damage the purported integrity of candidate Joe Biden.

So, Blinken says, we need intelligence help.

We need to deflect this story in a way that would exonerate the president and not damage his election prospects.

Okay.

So, Morale and Polymeropoulos write up a short little letter that says, this laptop story has all the hallmarks, all the hallmarks,

of Russian disinformation.