This came from on high,’ said reporter Marc Caputo. ‘Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop.’

Online users shared this untrue rumor about the pair in the days before U.S. President Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration.

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.

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.

Hunter Biden received a “full and unconditional” pardon from his dad, President Joe Biden in December. But this gesture of love, one of President Joe Biden’s final acts while in office, came before Special Counsel Davis Weiss released the final report on his investigation into the president’s son.

Your name was also on the list, but it's not clear to me that you had a clearance, because I thought that the president, President Trump, tried to cancel your clearances back in 2018, if you want to clear that up.

The report of the special counsel behind the prosecutions against Hunter Biden, David Weiss, was released Monday.

President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.

Members of Congress have expressed interest in continuing to probe the Biden family even after sweeping pardons to finally get to the truth.

The officials previously wrote a letter claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Amid a seemingly endless barrage of ‘Day One’ pledges, Donald Trump is reportedly planning to suspend security clearances for more than 50 officials for “lying” about the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.