Former Obama-era CIA Director Mike Morell and current Secretary of State Antony Blinken were recently exposed as being behind the infamous “intel letter” that sought to dismiss Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation. Now, a new report is providing unassailable evidence of exactly what the motive behind the gambit was.

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According to The Washington Examiner, Morell sent a recruitment email to gather signatories for the letter. Notably, in the email, he admitted that the entire purpose was to give Joe Biden a rebuttal to Donald Trump’s attacks during the presidential debates.

A recruitment email sent by Mike Morell, co-author of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter, wanted former intelligence officials to become signatories to help give Joe Biden a “talking point” during a crucial presidential debate against Donald Trump.

The revelation comes after Morell, the former Obama CIA acting director, admitted that now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “triggered” him to write the October 2020 laptop letter.

The recruitment email from Morell was sent to former intelligence officials and included the laptop letter co-authored by him and former senior CIA operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos as an attachment.

The quoted language from the Morell email, sent on Oct. 18, 2020, was read to the Washington Examiner verbatim and identically by two independent sources who had access to the email.

Morell sent the email with an admission that the entire purpose was to provide a “talking point” for Biden to use. Sure enough, that’s exactly how it played out. Trump brought up Hunter Biden’s laptop at the debate in question, and Biden responded by claiming it was Russian disinformation, a claim that was bolstered by the supposed authority of all the intelligence officials who signed the letter.

It was a setup from the very beginning. No one who signed the letter was trying to get the truth out, which was the impression it was meant to give. Instead, the signatories were all part of an announced scheme to shift the outcome of the 2020 election by burying an immensely damaging story. A story, mind you, that implicated Joe Biden himself in possible corruption.

How can anyone possibly trust the intelligence community after this? They colluded and conspired to protect a degenerate like Hunter Biden in order to prop up a senile presidential candidate. The results of that have been predictable and disastrous.

If that’s not a case for gutting the federal bureaucracy, including some of the sacred cows within it that even the right usually protects, I don’t know what is. It’s clear that there is an entire class of government apparatchiks that believe they have an ordained right to manipulate and control the American people. That can’t be allowed to continue unabated.