The White House on Friday accused House Republicans of misleading the public with a selective leak about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken accusing him of pressuring former intelligence officials to denounce the Hunter Biden laptop story published by the New York Post before the 2020 election. The letter included excerpts of a testimony from Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA, that Republicans on the committee believe supported that claim.
But, the White House disputed their claim and called the leaks from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) “misleading.”
“Wow. Fuller transcript newly released by @HouseJudiciary reveals this was a highly misleading selective leak by @Jim_Jordan, @RepMikeTurner and @JudiciaryGOP,” White House spokesperson Ian Sams tweeted Friday.
Sams also included the portion of the testimony that Republicans did not put in their letter.
In the full version, the committee asked Morell if when Blinken —who was a Biden campaign advisor at the time—called if he “direct, suggest, or insinuate in any way that you should write a letter or statement on this topic?”
“My memory is that he did not, right. My memory is that he asked me what I thought,” Morell responded.
Asked by the committee whether Blinken said “the campaign could use some help on this,” Morell responded, “he did not say that.”
