Mark Meadows: Adam Schiff of ‘trying to spin a story’ claiming Russia behind Hunter Biden emails story

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows brushed off California Rep. Adam Schiff’s claims that Russia is behind the revelations found in Hunter Biden’s purported emails.

“You know, Adam Schiff came on and said oh, this is Russia, Russia, Russia. And again, I can tell you, this is Adam Schiff, once again, trying to spin a story that’s not accurate. I think in the days to come, you will see that Joe Biden will have a lot to answer for,” Meadows said Monday on Fox and Friends.

Meadows added that he wasn’t aware or briefed on any Russian disinformation campaign that would involve the emails or the laptop that supposedly belongs to Biden.

Biden’s emails have become the subject of media scrutiny after the New York Post published a slew of stories using the content found in a laptop and hard drive he purportedly dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware but never took back. The central story focuses on an alleged meeting between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and a senior official at Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy firm where the younger Biden was a board member of during the time his father was serving as vice president. The Biden campaign has denied such a meeting ever took place based on “Biden’s official schedules from the time,” but only as it was described in the report.

Schiff, who for years asserted there was collusion between the Trump 2016 campaign and Russia, claimed these stories were an attempt to smear the Biden campaign last minute with just about two weeks left until Election Day.

“We know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin,” the California Democrat said on CNN last week. “That’s been clear for well over a year now that they’ve been pushing this false narrative about this vice president and his son.”

The U.S. intelligence community has long warned of disinformation that may interfere with voters’ knowledge ahead of the November election, particularly coming from foreign actors such as Russia, China, and Iran. William Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said those three countries seek to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic system.

The FBI is reportedly investigating if the Hunter Biden emails stories are tied to a Russia disinformation effort, but Director Of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Monday that he didn’t believe the news related to the laptop and emails are connected to the Kremlin.

“Let me be clear, the intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports and we shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden’s laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign. It’s simply not true,” Ratcliffe said on Fox Business.