Trump Lawyers Demand Intel Agencies Punish Ex-employees Who Claimed Russians Were Behind ‘Hunter’s Laptop’

The former employees at the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies should be punished for claiming stories about emails on a computer belonging to Joe Biden’s son were part of a Russian scheme, lawyers for President Donald Trump said. Top officials at the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Department of Defense (DoD) were urged in letters on May 18 to take action against the employees, with Trump lawyers asserting the employees “changed the outcome of the election through knowingly flagrant misconduct.” Jim Clapper, a former director of national…