John A. Gentry

So as we talked earlier on, the Russians have done all sorts of disinformation kinds of things, including forgeries and so on.

So you're using the credibility that these people had built up over time, courtesy of the press, to say, it looks like this might be a Russian operation, having nothing to do with Hunter, nothing to do with Joe.

Okay, so they were very careful in writing this.

If you examine this letter, and it's online, anybody can find it.

It does not say explicitly that this was Russian disinformation.

It says it sort of looks like it.

It has all the hallmarks.

Okay, so they knew very well

that that was not the point of this letter.

They knew the point of the letter was to help Joe Biden.

Probably.

Well, I mean, it's conceivable, but it's not likely.

I mean, we know that there are... We know the Russians do cyber operation, but we also know now

Not at the time, but we know now that the FBI had already checked the computer and had already determined that this surely did look like real, you know, their cyber forensic people had already determined that this was legitimate Hunter Biden material.

And that's not been challenged at this point.

So you're trying to mislead voters using intelligence credentials as a rationale for it, knowing full well that the Russians were not behind it.

Okay.

So these two go to number of fours.

former intelligence officers and ask for their signatures on this, this open letter.

So among the, back up a step, among the many things that the press had done over the previous four years had been to publish a series of open letters.