(CNSNews.com) - Democrats, including those in the media, are either dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story as "Russian disinformation," or ignoring it altogether.
But Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, says the reports have national security implications. He's now trying to get the FBI to tell us, "Is this story true? Can you verify any of this?"
"So I just sent another letter yesterday, because the FBI has a duty to inform us," Johnson told "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo.
If they believe this is maybe Russian disinformation, they should give us a defensive briefing. They should tell us about that.
If, for example, they also believe that what information this whistle-blower gave us is fraudulent, that would also be a crime, and the FBI should tell us that. So we're trying to suss out of the FBI, what do they know and when did they know it?
But the larger question really is, if they had this information, and these are genuine e-mails, and it would probably reveal all kinds of things that would have been very relevant to the (Trump) impeachment case, why did they sit on it? Are they covering up just because Hunter Biden might be engaged in things that also maybe should have been investigated and possibly prosecuted?
Do we have two systems of justice, one for Democrats, one for Republicans, one for the well-connected, vs. one for the rest of the Americans? I think that's really probably the larger issue here at play.
Johnson said there's "more and more validation" that the emails on a laptop computer apparently owned by Hunter Biden and abandoned at a Delaware repair shop are genuine.
"One of the recipients on that e-mail chain has told Fox News that, yes, that's a true e-mail," Johnson said. "This requires serious investigation. And the fact that the mainstream media is suppressing this information from the American public is a scandal, in and of itself."
The New York Post last week produced an email alleged to be from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop showing that Hunter arranged a meeting in 2015 between his father, then the vice president, and an official at the Ukraine energy company Burisma, which paid Hunter Biden huge sums of money to sit on its board.
The FBI now has possession of the laptop and the hard drive, onto which the content of the laptop was transferred by the repair shop owner.
The information on the hard drive ended up at The New York Post by way of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who was contacted by the repair shop owner.
Johnson said the entire Biden-Burisma-China connections/influence story "requires detailed investigations on the part of the Justice Department, on the part of the FBI, on the part of the media. And that's not occurring," he said.
"So, why is this being covered up? Why is this not being talked about? This is a major news story, because, if you have all this -- these vast webs, all these connections, this could be used as blackmail against a potential Biden presidency far in excess of anything that was ever alleged against Donald Trump."
Johnson told Fox News that the FBI may have additional computers relating to the Bidens in its possession.
"I think the FBI really has to be honest with us in terms of what it possesses and what it's done with what it's possessed," he said.
Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee recently issued a report titled, "Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns."
The report says, among other things, "Hunter Biden was not the only Biden who cashed in on Joe Biden’s vice presidency."