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Sen. Ron Johnson accused Antony Blinken of telling a 'boldface lie' to Congress about his communications with Hunter Biden after it his emails with the first son were revealed.
The Wisconsin Republican revealed that Blinken, when he was still working for the Biden campaign in December 2020, had come in to sit for a transcribed interview with his team. He was then aiming for the secretary of State job, a Senate-confirmed position.
'Now, because of more information that's come out, we know that he lied boldface to Congress about never emailing Hunter Biden,' Johnson told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo.
'My guess is he told a bunch of other lies that hopefully we'll be able to bring him and his wife back in, tell them to preserve their records. You cannot trust Joe Biden. You cannot trust Hunter Biden.'
Sen. Ron Johnson accused Antony Blinken of telling a 'boldface lie' to Congress about his communications with Hunter Biden after it his emails with the first son were revealed
Asked if he believed Blinken lied under oath, Johnson said: 'Yes, he did.'
'He said he did not email Hunter Biden, and now we have those emails. We also know that his wife, using her private email address when she was a[n] employee of the State Department, was basically a conduit between her husband and Hunter Biden as well,' Johnson continued.
The Wisconsin Republican said Blinken needs to be subpoenaed, but without Democrat support he would not have the authority to do so.
'If he wants to proclaim his innocence, I doubt he'll do that, but he must and she must preserve their records, their personal emails. When you get to the bottom of this, we need to show how corrupt these individuals are.'
The Functional Government Initiative, a government watchdog group, obtained a trove of emails from Blinken during his time in the Obama administration showing Blinken and Hunter Biden writing to each other and setting up personal meetings through his private AOL account during his time as deputy secretary of state.
Emails obtained by Fox News showed that Blinken met with Hunter Biden at the State Department in 2015 while Hunter was on the board of Burisma.
Emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop show Blinken and his wife Evan Ryan have long had contact with the first son. On multiple occasions, Hunter forwarded communications about setting up meetings with Blinken to fellow board members of Burisma.
Meanwhile, Mike Morell last week told the House Judiciary Committee that he was asked by Blinken - who at the time was a senior member of the Biden campaign - to help discredit the laptop reporting.
Morell was a former acting CIA director, serving for two months in 2011 and four months from 2012 to 2013. He retired from the CIA in September 2013.
He coordinated a letter from former intelligence chiefs claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation because he wanted to help Joe Biden's presidential campaign.
The Judiciary Committee, led by Jim Jordan, is currently investigating Hunter Biden's laptop, as well as the Biden family businesses.
Morell 'recently' conducted a transcribed
