Half a dozen Republican secretaries of state sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday expressing concern about federal intel officials’ alleged efforts to interfere in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden. The secretaries specifically called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign if found guilty of leading the purported effort.
“As the chief election officers of our respective states responsible for running free and fair elections, we have great concern in the findings in the Report of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary that former federal intelligence officials and the Biden Campaign coordinated efforts to intentionally influence the 2020 presidential election by spreading disinformation,” the letter reads.
The document’s signatories include the secretaries of state of Arkansas, Louisiana, Ohio, Missouri, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Released earlier this year, the House Judiciary report referenced by the secretaries included testimony from Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA who signed onto the debunked letter from 51 former intelligence officials that falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. In his testimony, Morell claimed “on or around October 17, 2020,” Blinken — who, at the time, served as a Biden campaign adviser — “reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story,” which had been published in the New York Post on Oct. 14.
According to Morell, Blinken’s outreach “set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement,” baselessly asserting the laptop was part of a Russian
