Critics immediately tore into the former intel boss, with one calling him a “pathetic liar” about the laptop’s provenance.

President-elect Donald Trump, on Day 1, plans to suspend the security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed reporting tied to Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election,

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.

While Biden tactfully communicated a fundamental truth and core party principle that’s been often overlooked, many felt that Biden delivering the message in the last gasps of his presidency was emblematic of his time in office: far too little, far too late.

A writer for The Atlantic was bewildered at how many intelligence officials sacrified their credibility to attempt to swing an election in Joe Biden's favor.

In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued blanket preemptive pardons Monday to prominent government officials, the bipartisan January 6 th committee, and members of his own family, which Biden said was necessary to prevent retribution from President-elect Donald Trump.

Mike Johnson said Biden has not "been in charge for some time" and even at a 2022 meeting, the president was unaware what was in his own executive order.

With just days left in office, President Joe Biden will give a farewell speech on Wednesday from the Oval Office, touting his administration's key accomplishments.

His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.

With actions big and small, Trump has spent his first days in office pushing the levers of government – and his unique powers as commander in chief – to target his perceived political enemies both inside and outside the government.