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.

A new report said payback could be coming for 51 national security officials who said in a crucial pre-election letter in 2020 that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop being released in the media were Russian disinformation.

President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt reported Monday that Democrats believe it will be more difficult to criticize President Donald Trump for any pardons he may issue after former President Joe Biden preemptively granted several of his family members clemency on his last day in office.

Biden said the pardons protect his family against political attacks motivated "solely by a desire to hurt me." It's an extraordinary move that shields members of the Biden family from any efforts by the new administration to prosecute them.

President Biden announced Monday before leaving office that he would be preemptively pardoning several people who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House, including members of his family,