WASHINGTON, Apr 22 Publication by the US House Judiciary Committee The involvement of Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and President Joe Biden's campaign in trying to cover up Hunter Biden's laptop is a misleading selective leak, White House spokesman Ian Sams said on his Twitter page.
«A newly released transcript of the House Judiciary Committee shows that it was a highly misleading selective leak,» he wrote.
Sams is the White House official in charge of the administration's position on oversight and investigations, as well as Biden's special assistant and senior adviser.
The White House spokesman also accused Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of being behind the leaks and having a «well-documented history» of such leaks to manipulate the media to serve his party's political interests.
The US House Judiciary Committee released a statement this week that Biden's campaign was trying to downplay his son's laptop.
Legislators cite in their allegations recent testimony from former CIA deputy chief Michael Morell, who, along with five dozen other members of the US intelligence community, signed a statement that the laptop story allegedly had signs of Russian-led «disinformation» .
Morell specifically pointed out that in October 2020, Blinken, who at that time was working as a senior assistant to Biden's presidential campaign, contacted to discuss the situation in which Biden found himself.
In October 2020, the New York Post published a series of materials based on correspondence allegedly found on Hunter Biden's laptop, which was found in a Delaware repair shop. The owner of the workshop made a copy of his hard drive, which was given to Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and the personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump at the time. The laptop was reportedly later seized by the FBI.
Based on the data seized from the laptop, Trump and his supporters claimed that Biden Jr. was lobbying, providing business partners with access to his father, who then served as vice president. In the light of the publications, the Republicans in Congress initiated an investigation into the business of the Joe Biden family, requests for documents of interest to legislators were sent to his son and brother.