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.

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 51 former intelligence community officials claimed that a report about Hunter Biden's laptop had "the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

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.

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

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 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.

Democratic strategist James Carville said that no one wants to hear from former President Biden anymore. “What he’s done to himself is, no one wants to hear from this guy anymore, okay?” Carville

Special Counsel David Weiss has defended the impartiality of the investigations into Hunter Biden while publicly criticizing President Joe Biden for comments made when he pardoned his son.

Two former Politico reporters, Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, reveal how their attempts to report on Hunter Biden's issues were delayed or blocked. Bot