John Ratcliffe: “A chairman of an intelligence committee misrepresented that…”

“And when I did, I was accused of being political, but I wasn't. I was speaking truth to power. I wasn't outsizing the threat from China in 2020 when A chairman of an intelligence committee misrepresented that a laptop owned by then candidate Biden's son was somehow a Russian intelligence operation. And 51 former intelligence officials used the imprimatur of IC authority to. To go along with that. I stood in the breach. I stood alone and told the American people the truth about that.” (01:53–02:07)

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