The former Director of National Intelligence on Sunday rebutted the assertion by ex-intelligence officials that it was Russian disinformation that emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop supposedly pointed to a possible meeting with a corrupt Ukrainian energy firm.

In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” John Ratcliffe, who served under former President Donald Trump, said it was wrong to disparage a New York Post report that implicated Hunter Biden and his then-vice president father Joe Biden as being involved in the supposed meeting set-up.

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Joe Biden has denied the meeting described took place.

“To have 50 former Obama-Clinton-Biden national security officials come out after the director of national intelligence says this is not true, and protect a false narrative to protect Joe Biden and try and influence the outcome of the election, that is the definition of politicizing intelligence,” Ratcliffe said.

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