Based on reports from Fox News, Politico and other media, U.S. President Trump signed a series of executive orders after taking office in the White House again on the 20th, one of which was to revoke 51 people who had signed Security clearance of former intelligence official who made Biden's son Hunter Biden's "Laptopgate" related statements.

The 51 people include former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., former CIA Directors Michael Hayden, John Brennan, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former National Security Advisor John Bolton and others.

According to reports, the executive order stated that the signatories "deliberately weaponized the dignity of the intelligence community, manipulated the political process and undermined the institutions of our democracy."

According to reports, in October 2020, the New York Post broke the news that some emails they had showed that Hunter had served as a director of a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma and enjoyed a high salary. He once used his family connections to introduce his father, then the Vice President of the United States, to a senior adviser at the company. When the company came under Ukraine's domestic anti-corruption investigation, the elder Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor investigating the company.

The New York Post said at the time that the "bombshell communications" emails were found on a laptop that had been abandoned at a repair shop in Delaware.

The owner of this laptop company said that in April 2019, someone gave him three laptops for repair, and two of them were damaged by water and could not be repaired. He said he couldn't be sure who sent it because he is legally blind, but he said the man identified himself as Hunter Biden and signed a receipt that appeared to be Hunter's. One of the laptops left for repairs had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it.

According to reports, in addition to the above-mentioned scandals, the laptop also contains a large number of shocking details about Hunter Biden's personal life, including pornographic videos and information in which he admitted that he took drugs.

Later, the New York Times quoted a "refutation letter" signed by more than 50 former intelligence officials, claiming that the scandal was the product of the so-called "Russian information war." After Joe Biden was elected president, several major media outlets that dismissed the report as a rumor later confirmed that key documents on the laptop were authentic.

In May 2023, the Republican led U.S. House Judiciary Committee released an investigation report that found these 51 individuals conspired with the Biden campaign team to blame Russia for the Hunter Biden "laptop email scandal" and attempted to mislead American voters during the U.S. presidential election.

Fox News Network pointed out that Republican lawmakers, including Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina and known as Trump's "closest ally," had previously suggested revoking the security clearances of 51 officials suspected of fraud.

According to CNN, some of the 51 people did not hold security clearances when they wrote the letter, or no longer hold security clearances.

Mark Zaid, an attorney representing many of the signatories, argued that terminating the individuals' security clearances goes against decades-old national security norms.

"Such action would be unprecedented and uncalled for, especially given that many of the signatories have spent their entire careers protecting the American people rather than being political," Zeid said.

According to Qatar’s Al Jazeera, the U.S. Office of National Intelligence has reported that nearly 2.8 million Americans have security clearance to access classified and sensitive government documents in some way.

Among them, nearly 1.6 million people have access to "sensitive" and "confidential" information, and nearly 1.2 million people have access to "top secret" information.

While the process of obtaining a security clearance is lengthy, with associated reviews, inspections, and audits often lasting several months, once such clearance is obtained, there is a significant opportunity for its owner to work directly for a government agency or in conjunction with Companies contracted by government agencies to perform work related to broad U.S. national security.